Congratulations to Betsy Connor, one winning the NAN Woman Award

Press Release

Once a year Nishnawbe Aski Nation (NAN) recognizes the outstanding achievements and contributions of NAN community members and this year the NAN Woman Award went to Betsy Connor from Taykwa Tagamou Nation.

Betsy Connor plays a vital role as a Board member and represents the Eastern Region for the

Ontario Native Women’s Association Board of Directors. She guides us to make positive, empowering and long lasting impacts on the lives of women and families by sharing her knowledge and traditional teachings. She loves to spend time with her family and with her husband fishing and trapping. Betsy reminds us the importance of being out on the land, she loves the peace and quite that comes from there and she makes her offerings of tobacco there because you can feel the creator there with you.

When she’s not volunteering for ONWA or her community of Taykwa Tagamou Nation, she works full time at Taykwa Tagamou Health Centre as the Native Alcohol and Drug Abuse Program. She leads by example and her peers and co-workers describe Betsy as a natural leader, dedicated, respectful and hard working.

ONWA offers our sincere congratulations to Betsy, who serves as a role model for Indigenous women’s leadership and provides the inspiration for others to follow, by showing us the way.

For more information please contact:

Jolene Banning
Public Relations Coordinator
jbanning@onwa.ca

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