(Aboriginal Affairs Minister Chris Bentley (right) with Nishawbe-Aski Nation Grand Chief Stan Beardy and Michael Gravelle, Minister of Northern Development, Mines and Forestry)The provincial government is supporting northwestern Ontario's aboriginal and Metis victims.
The Ontario Native Women's Association has developed workshops designed to foster healthy relationships.
Aboriginal Affairs Minister Chris Bentley says they've adopted a "for us by us" strategy.
"You have to listen to the people who have been victims," says Bentley, "and to the communities from which they come. That's the power of this program.. It's designed by aboriginal people, delivered by aboriginal people for aboriginal people."
Another first nations group is offering a healing arts program designed to remember those first nation women who are missing.
