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Dianne Meili, President of Skydancer Indigenous Cultural Centre and Gallery · Community Champion of the Week

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  SPEAKER_00: Windspeaker Radio Network's Community Champion of the Week.
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  SPEAKER_00: Each week, the Windspeaker Radio Network recognizes and celebrates an Indigenous champion from Alberta who demonstrates exceptional commitment to enhancing their community.
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  SPEAKER_02: Hi, my name is Diane Mealy, and I'm Kree Hodnoshone and the president and founder of Skydancer Indigenous Cultural Center and Art Gallery in Spruce Grove.
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  SPEAKER_01: Congratulations, Diane.
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  SPEAKER_01: You're this week's community champion.
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  SPEAKER_01: How does it make you feel getting recognized by the community?
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  SPEAKER_02: A little strange.
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  SPEAKER_02: I'm the um a guide on the side, not the sage on the stage.
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  SPEAKER_02: And uh I just do what I do.
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  SPEAKER_02: I'm at that time in my life as a up-and-coming elder that I'm not giving to myself so much as giving to other people.
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  SPEAKER_02: And I love it when people come to Skydancer and feel connected, feel welcome, feel included.
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  SPEAKER_02: That's what it's all about.
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  SPEAKER_02: Community means uh the heart and feeling belonging and creating, when you get more than one person, you know, two people together, it's like you create a third mind.
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  SPEAKER_02: What people bring to the circle has a life of its own, and you gain ideas, things you probably never thought about.
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  SPEAKER_02: And the Hodan Ashone have a uh saying, let us bring our hearts and minds together to create something beautiful, something good.
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  SPEAKER_01: Speaking about uh beautiful and something good, tell me a little more up and coming community events that's happening here with the organization.
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  SPEAKER_01: Oh, have you got a day?
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  SPEAKER_02: We've got so much going on.
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  SPEAKER_02: Then we're moving right into Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women's Uh Memorial Walk.
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  SPEAKER_02: Then we have the Moose Hide Campaign, then we have uh NIPD and sprinkled in that, we have T and Bannock with an Elder once a month.
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  SPEAKER_02: We have a talking circle, we have workshops, ribbon make ribbon skirt making, drum making, rattle making, and uh yes, and we're becoming land based, so we will have a tourism indigenous experience coming on this spring and summer.
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  SPEAKER_02: This has been the Windspeaker Radio Network Community Champion of the Week.