Winnipeg Famous
Winnipeg Famous
CBC
Gramma Shingoose: Resilience and Hope
27 minutes Posted Jun 5, 2020 at 4:07 am.
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When there's an important event in Winnipeg's Indigenous community, Gerry 'Gramma' Shingoose is there - often at the front - with a prayer, a drum, and exactly the right words. But Gramma Shingoose says her connection to her culture was severed, once by residential school and once by grief. So how did she find her strength and her way back to become the respected elder she is today?