2024 Esquao Award recipients – CFWE FM

Mar 11, 2024

Co-founded by Marggo Pariseau and Muriel Stanley Venne, the Esquao Awards highlight the significant role Indigenous women hold in their home, in the healing and development of their communities, and in the building of Alberta.

This year’s honoured Esquao Award recipients include leaders in education, business, the arts, community involvement, culture, children’s futures, health and medicine, and justice and human rights.

Joanna Rose Campiou, Alexander First Nation – Culture

Mother, grandmother, nurse, cultural arts instructor, knowledge keeper, entrepreneur—Joanna is being recognized for her contributions to her community’s cultural life. She participates, hosts and volunteers in many ceremonies and cultural events, and lives closely with the land. As a nurse, she strives to incorporate her culture and spirituality to bring the nêhiyawak ways of knowing and being to her work.

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