A Bit About WAWC

Myra is an example of an Indigenous woman that has long been supporting causes that affect her families and her communities. Myra is often found engaging to raise public awareness of Truth and Reconciliation, Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women & Girls. She is keen to understand and advocate for equity in health, education and justice. She cares deeply about our environment. Myra is always delving deeper into her Indigenous identity- she was raised with her two siblings in Carmacks,Yukon by their mother Annie of Pagan Cree Nation and their father Alfred Tricker of the Little Prairie Metis Nation. Her grandmother called the family “road allowance people" a term referring to people you lost status because of taking scrip. The Tricker family was fully embraced by Little Salmon Carmacks First Nation. Myra grew up amongst the activities of Grandma Mary Luke and Grandma May Roberts fish camps and the harvesting wild foods and medicinal plants from the land. She has a renewed appreciation of these teachings. She has enduring memories of these connections. Her Northern Tutchone name Dan Ts’in Nanji means People’s helper was given to her by Grandma Susie Skookum when she learned of Myra’s desire to be a nurse and realized she did not do very well at cutting fish. Myra has 35 years of nursing career, she now uses aspects of her education to rekindle the understanding of harvesting and foraging of medicinal plants and country foods. Myra is consistently willing to teach and inspire those in the North who want to learn and discover a way to live and learn of their ancestral lifestyle! Namwayut - A Cree word meaning “we are one”.