‘Beacon of inspiration’: Elder Pauline Shirt, founder of Canada’s first Indigenous-focused school, dies at 80
One of Canada’s most beloved Indigenous elders, leaders, and visionaries has died. Grandmother (Nokomis) Pauline Shirt, Nimikiiquay or Thunder Woman as she was also known, died on May 7. She was 80. A Plains Cree elder from the Red-Tail Hawk Clan, Shirt …