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Grandmother's Voice is a Collective: Creating opportunities for Indigenous community members to share their teachings, healing practices and traditional handicraft creation with the broader community.
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15/05/2026

As National Nurses Week comes to a close, Grandmother’s Voice honours the care we carry.

This week, we honoured Indigenous Nurses whose lives and work helped shape health care, cultural safety, education, advocacy, and community wellness. Today, we also honour the care that lives beyond job titles.

We honour the Grandmothers, Grandfathers, Aunties, Uncles, Mothers, Fathers, Sisters, Brothers, Cousins, Elders, Two-Spirit relatives, Helpers, Healers, Knowledge Keepers, Nurses, and Caregivers who show up in ordinary and extraordinary ways.

Some care with medicine. Some with tea. Some with rides. Some with food. Some with a phone call. Some with ceremony. Some with humour. Some with quiet presence. Some with the kind of love that does not ask to be noticed.

We cannot feature everyone, but anyone who has touched a life through care is a hero.

We invite you to join us in celebrating the people who carry care. Indigenous and Settler friends are welcome to share photos, stories, and memories of the Nurses, family members, friends, Elders, and Caregivers who have helped them feel held, seen, or healed.

Read today’s full reflection, The Care We Carry, on the Grandmother’s Voice blog:
https://grandmothersvoice.com/the-care-we-carry/

14/05/2026

Today, Grandmother’s Voice honours Dr. Madeleine Dion Stout.

A Cree Nurse, scholar, educator, advocate, and leader, Dr. Dion Stout helped shape conversations about Indigenous health, cultural safety, policy, education, and justice. Her work reminds us that healing cannot be separated from dignity, rights, truth, and the systems that shape people’s lives.

Indigenous Nurses have always done more than provide care at the bedside. They have taught, advocated, challenged, mentored, translated, protected, and carried community stories into rooms where decisions are made.

Today, we honour Dr. Madeleine Dion Stout and every person whose care has made the world safer for someone else, Nurses, Grandmothers, Grandfathers, Aunties, Uncles, Elders, Brothers, Sisters, Two-Spirit relatives, Helpers, Healers, Caregivers, and community champions.

We cannot feature every story, but every story of care matters. Indigenous and Settler friends are invited to share photos and memories of the people who have cared for them, stood beside them, or helped them find their way.

Read today’s full story, Healing Through Justice, on the Grandmother’s Voice blog:
https://grandmothersvoice.com/healing-through-justice/

14/05/2026

Grandmother’s Voice joins communities across Turtle Island in honouring an Indigenous-led movement to end violence against women and children.

This day asks something of us.

It asks us to do more than witness harm. It asks us to interrupt it. It asks us to teach our children what respect looks like, to remind our sons and brothers that strength is not control, to remind our daughters and nieces that safety is their birthright, and to remind every person in community that violence is never private when its pain is carried by families, Nations, and generations.

The Moose Hide Campaign is a call to men, boys, Two-Spirit relatives, families, workplaces, schools, and communities to stand together in accountability, humility, and love. It is not about shame. It is about responsibility. It is about choosing a different way. It is about protecting life.

For Grandmother’s Voice, this day is connected to the work of Grandmothers and Aunties, to the memory of those we have lost, to the children still learning what safety feels like, and to every person doing the quiet and difficult work of healing harm before it reaches another generation.

Ending violence begins in the way we speak. The way we listen. The way we raise children. The way we respond when someone tells the truth. The way we hold men and boys close enough to teach them, and accountable enough to change. The way we make room for survivors to be believed, protected, and surrounded by care.

Today, we honour the Moose Hide Campaign and all those walking, fasting, learning, teaching, and taking action.

May we build homes, schools, workplaces, systems, and communities where women, children, girls, Two-Spirit, and gender-diverse relatives are safe.

May our care become courage.

May our courage become change.

13/05/2026

Join us Tonight
In circle
at the Burlington Public Library

New Appleby Branch Location

6:30 pm - 8:30 pm

13/05/2026

Today, Grandmother’s Voice honours Dr. Evelyn Voyageur.

Dr. Voyageur’s work reminds us that health is not only physical. It is spiritual, emotional, mental, cultural, relational, and deeply connected to community. Her leadership in Indigenous health, cultural safety, nursing education, and community-based wellness has helped open doors for safer, more respectful care.

To be guided by community means listening first. It means understanding that care is not something done to people, but something built with them. It means honouring language, culture, ceremony, family, grief, humour, and the whole person.

Today, we honour Dr. Evelyn Voyageur and every Nurse, Grandmother, Grandfather, Auntie, Uncle, Elder, Sister, Brother, Two-Spirit relative, Helper, Healer, and Caregiver who has made someone feel seen, safe, and less alone.

We cannot name every hero this week, but we know they are everywhere. If someone has cared for you, taught you, advocated for you, or helped you heal, we welcome you to share their photo or story with us.

Read today’s full story, Guided by Community, on the Grandmother’s Voice blog:
https://grandmothersvoice.com/guided-by-community/

12/05/2026

Today, for National Nurses Week, Grandmother’s Voice honours Mabel Jones.

Mabel Jones became the first Indigenous nurse to graduate from the Women’s College Hospital School of Nursing in 1928. She is remembered as a nursing trailblazer, and as someone who carried both Western nursing knowledge and traditional Indigenous healing practices.

Her story reminds us that Indigenous medicine did not disappear when hospitals were built. It continued through plants, teachings, careful hands, quiet knowledge, and the people who refused to leave their ways of knowing behind.

Today, we honour Mabel Jones and every Nurse, Healer, Helper, Auntie, Grandmother, Elder, Brother, Sister, Grandfather, and Caregiver who has carried more than one kind of medicine into the lives of others.

We cannot feature every person whose care has mattered, but we invite you to help widen the circle. Share a photo or story of someone, Indigenous or Settler, who has touched your life through care.

Read today’s full story, Carrying Both Medicines, on the Grandmother’s Voice blog:
https://grandmothersvoice.com/carrying-both-medicines/

11/05/2026

Grandmother’s Voice invites you to gather with us for an evening of conversation, reflection, and community.

Join us for Gathering Voices Community Circle at the New Appleby Branch of Burlington Public Library on Wednesday, May 13, 2026, from 6:30 to 8:30 p.m.

Together, we will sit in conversation around Indigenous resilience, truth, history, and the shared responsibility of reconciliation. This circle is an invitation to listen, learn, and reflect on what it means to move beyond awareness into action.

When we better understand the history, the harms, the strength of Indigenous Peoples, and the ongoing impacts of colonization, we are better able to ask deeper questions:

What can I do?
How can I show up with respect?
How can I contribute to reconciliation in my home, workplace, school, organization, and community?
What commitment am I willing to carry forward?

This gathering is open to everyone. Whether you are just beginning this learning journey or have been walking with these conversations for some time, you are welcome.

Come with an open heart, a willingness to listen, and a readiness to consider how we each have a role in building more honest, respectful, and connected relationships.

Gathering Voices Community Circle
Wednesday, May 13, 2026
6:30 to 8:30 p.m.
New Appleby Branch, Burlington Public Library
All are welcome.

Burlington Public Library

11/05/2026

As National Nurses Week begins, Grandmother’s Voice is honouring the roots of care.

Before nursing became a profession, care lived in families, on the land, in ceremony, in medicines, in kitchens, beside beds, and in the hands of those who noticed when someone was not well.

Today, we honour Indigenous Nurses, Indigenous nursing students, and every person who carries care from an Indigenous perspective, in hospitals, health centres, nursing stations, doctors’ offices, community spaces, homes, and classrooms.

We also honour the Grandmothers, Grandfathers, Aunties, Uncles, Mothers, Fathers, Sisters, Brothers, Elders, Two-Spirit relatives, Helpers, Healers, Knowledge Keepers, and Caregivers who have kept people well in ways that were not always named, paid, or recognized.

We cannot feature every story this week, but we know this: anyone who has touched a life through care is part of this circle.

Join us this week in celebrating Nurses and all those who carry care. Indigenous and Settler friends are welcome to share photos, memories, and stories of the people who have cared for them, taught them, held them, or helped them heal

Read today’s full reflection, Roots of Care, on the Grandmother’s Voice blog:
https://grandmothersvoice.com/roots-of-care/

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