Executive Director, Jesse Cardinal

Kikino Metis Settlement, Treaty 6

Jesse Cardinal is from the Kikino Métis Settlement, where she grew up. She has seen many changes to the lands and waters in her life and a drastic decline in wildlife. She loves to listen to Elders talk about how the land was, even before she was born. Jesse has been a youth worker and social worker and has grown into the roles of coordinator and director for environmental groups. The community she is from was at one time primarily a Cree-speaking community, but due to colonization, that is no longer the case. Jesse is attending Blue Quills University part-time to learn the Cree language with the goal of helping keep the language alive in her community.

She welcomes partnerships with other individuals, organizations, communities, and Nations. “We need to keep going and working to protect our waters, lands and animals, every voice matters and we need to have hope for the youth. The more who know what it’s like to fish, to hunt, to pick berries, to speak their own language, to pray in love, the better off our world will be.”

Contact Information: ed@keepersofthewater.ca