I know there are a lot of programs out there for off-reserve organizations, but in our first nations communities, we don't get that much. We're always having to go to many of our funders to try to get something and we have to do a lot of reports on everything.
Many of those things have to do with mental health, the women, and the children. But when we bring this out, they have restrictions that they have to follow and they have to inform the RCMP. That hinders their things, so they're really stuck.
It's very hard trying to get somebody out there to listen to you. As the chief of my first nation, I will say that we have a lot of that. We try to do anything we can to protect women. We do other things, things other than just having to do some of these programs, but we don't tell anybody about it. The person out there is out there trusting you not to say anything. It's a lot of hard work for us also.