The event, now on its third year, is a walk for awareness and support for both missing women. Morin, who was 31 years old when she went missing three years ago, was last seen at North Battleford on July 10 while the 30-year-old Gallagher was last seen on Sept. 19, 2020 and was even captured by a surveillance camera in a convenience store the following day. “It’s been quite a journey and it’s been really hard on our family. Someone asked me the other day, ‘Why do you go through these things? Why do you keep traumatizing yourself over and over?’ I said,’You know, we got our justice. We got our prayers. We had our community’s support. We had a really good system in place for our family and right now we’re just doing our best to raise Danatea [Monica’s daughter] in a good way,’” said Burns.
SASKATOON The Indigenous-made Nikihk soap and cleaning products are now on sale at Sobeys in Preston Crossing. “This is produced in Saskatchewan, it’s produced from us, all our scents are from us, from the plains people, they’re all ours. It’s all bottled here by our own people,” said Nikihk president Neil Sasakamoose. The products range in price from $8-23. Revenue goes to the bands helping make the products. They were born out of necessity when First Nations in the North Battleford area couldn’t find sanitation supplies during the first part of the pandemic. This led the Battleford Agency of Tribal Chiefs to source their own supplies and eventually form Nikihk.