Elder Mae Louise Campbell, Métis
Born in 1934 into a family that lived off the land in northern Manitoba, Elder Mae Louise Campbell grew up rooted in natures’s cycles and Indigenous cultural values. For more than 16 years, Mae Louise was the Keeper of Grandmother Moon Lodge, a healing lodge in rural Manitoba that served over a thousand Indigenous women. Today she is Elder in Residence at the University of Manitoba’s Faculty of Social Work and Red River College.
- The systems don’t work for us (2:02)
- Sacred ceremonies for grieving a miscarriage (3:15)
- Family grief and the journey of letting go (2:03)
- Returning to Spirit (1:19)
- Grieving for my sister in my own way (2:03)
- Our women were suffering (1:35)
- When women lost their power (1:25)
- The legacy of loss: What was taken from us (1:16)
- Missing my culture (1:36)
- I had never felt love (1:10)
- Reclaiming the self (2:57)
- Each grief has it's own journey (2:18)
- Learning from loss: Our journey is about the self (1:25)
- We bring different emotions to our grief (1:50)
- Beginning our own journey (2:22)
- My first sweat lodge (1:14)
- When we listened to the grandmothers (2:17)
- From birth to passing: A life of teachings (1:15)
- Searching for an understanding of my Indigenous culture (0:39)
- Truth is the first teaching (1:28)
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