"We already spent enough money to get the machine imported from China to here in Canada. And then on Feb. 22, we're going to start making our own masks in Frog Lake," Faithful, 42, said in an interview with The Canadian Press.
Frog Lake First Nations is run by a band government about 200 kilometres northeast of Edmonton. Born and raised on the reserve, Faithful says life hasn't been easy for him and for the community's approximately 1,800 other members.
"It's a hard life to live with no opportunity on the Nation. I always wanted to be a part of the solution to a lot of things that were bad with the system," he says.