Pooley introduces herself by her nations.
“My Dad used to call us, NavajoOpiOkaShwap,” she says. She’s Navajo, Hopi, Okanagan, and Shuswap and she now lives and works in her community in Inkumupulux (at the northern end of Okanagan Lake) on the Okanagan Indian Band, where she owns a cannabis dispensary.
Pooley lost her ability to walk at 32 years-old, after years of working in the forestry and fisheries industries. Her journey to recovery brought her to cannabis, and years later, she’s now the proud owner of Top Hat Cannabis in OKIB.
She just celebrated two years of being open for business.