Gail Catherine Pelletier

Dear Kinship Circle.

Our Mother Gail Pelletier's final wish to be buried under the pines beneath the blueberries of our ancestral homelands in Jetait, Treaty Six Territory has been granted. Our family, community and nation came together and through hard work with lots of prayers were able to have three viewings in our great city of Winnipeg, In our mother's town of birth, They Pas and finally in our Indian Reserve, Pukatawagan at the local catholic church. So far with the funds raised, we have been able to support the feeding of over 100 relations, provide critical transportation coverage for the siblings and we were able to cover all our mother's children's December 2024 rent as none of us worked the last month of our Mom's life as we were with her in hospice.

We are still shy of our goal and need your help covering the acquisition of a headstone for our mother and helping her children recover from this time away from work. I would like to have her obituary published with a nice picture in the Winnipeg Free Press and some funds to pay for the printing of beautiful photo collages that my sister and brother for her funeral viewings. These commemoration posters will be given to all her 300 plus grandchildren and all the family so they can all have memorial posters of our Matiarch. We need help, especially for our brother Storm who lived with our mother, and is on disability and will need help covering Mom's portion of his rent until he can get some training and employment going.

Anyways, Mom had all of the elements of the natural world, our ancestors and the universe all come together to give her the most beautiful Cree burial we have ever witnessed, for that, we are so grateful and thank you all for the part you contributed to this community effort.

We still need your help to finish this work and amplify this crowdfunding campaign as we will run it for a bit longer while we close out her house and legal affairs.

KinanaSkomitnowow, In Great Thanks

The Children of Keewaitino Wabiskwe Myeengun Iskwe, Gail Cathrine Pelletier