The power of women helped make the newly-formed Treaty Land Sharing Network a reality, an initiative that is considered to be the first step toward land-based reconciliation and fulfilling and implementing the Treaty relationship. The group held a press conference Thursday to publicly launch the project at the farm of Mary Smillie and Ian McCreary near the village of Bladworth, which is 100 kilometers south of Saskatoon. Smillie was joined by Valerie Zinc, Martha Jane Robbins, Naomi Beingestner, Hillary Aiken, Amy Seesekwasis and Emily Eaton with the group working together in forming an alliance between farmers, ranchers and Indigenous land users. The grassroots movement is composed of a group of people that aims to fulfill what the treaties intended – allowing for access by Indigenous people for gathering plants and medicines, hunting and ceremony.