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Grandmothers and Grandfathers Speak from the Heart of the Mother

Name: Grandmothers and Grandfathers Speak from the Heart of the Mother
Start: 2025-10-13T08:00:00-04:00
End: 2025-10-13T21:00:00-04:00
Location: Virtual

October 13, 2025 @ 8:00 am - 9:00 pm

Grandmothers and Grandfathers Speak from the Heart of the Mother

October 13, 2025 | 9:00 PM EST (Online)

Featuring: Tanya Audrey Matthews and Allen Sutherland
📍 Watch live on Facebook @GrandmothersVoice and YouTube @GrandmothersVoice

About the Event

This week, Grandmother’s Voice welcomes Tanya Audrey Matthews and Allen Sutherland, two respected leaders whose work carries forward the teachings of governance, healing, and cultural preservation for future generations.

Their shared paths bring together community leadership, ancestral knowledge, and a lifelong commitment to truth, healing, and Nation-building. Through story, reflection, and lived experience, Tanya and Allen invite us to explore the responsibilities and gifts we each hold as part of Creation—and the ways we can strengthen our communities by returning to the teachings that have always guided us.

About Tanya Audrey Matthews

Founder, Indigenous Politics Consulting and Associates
Certified Heal Your Life® Workshop Facilitator | Youth Empowerment Leader | Governance Consultant

Tanya Audrey Matthews, HBA, is an Anicinape and Cree professional from the Apitipi Anicinapek Nation, dedicated to strengthening Indigenous governance, healing, and self-determination. She is the Founder and Principal Consultant of Indigenous Politics Consulting and Associates, an organization rooted in the Seven Grandfather Teachings—Courage, Honesty, Respect, Love, Wisdom, Humility, and Kindness—and devoted to helping Indigenous Nations design and implement governance systems that reflect their inherent rights, traditional laws, and community values.

With more than a decade of experience in leadership development, community engagement, and governance facilitation, Tanya has supported numerous First Nations in advancing self-determined decision-making through policy design, election law updates, community law ratification, and strategic communication. She has led political campaigns promoting traditional Indigenous law practices, coordinated historic and advocacy events, and continues to play an active role in preserving cultural knowledge through the Apitipi Knowledge Keepers Documentary Series.

Beyond governance, Tanya is a Certified Heal Your Life® Workshop Facilitator, Youth Empowerment Coach, and Lateral Kindness Trainer, blending personal healing with collective empowerment. Through her Sakieto8in Ki Pimatisi8in – Love Your Life teachings, she helps participants reconnect with self-worth, forgiveness, and abundance—drawing on both Louise Hay’s philosophy and Anicinape values of balance, respect, and love for life.

Her work is guided by the belief that true self-governance begins with self-love and community healing. Whether facilitating governance reforms, leading ceremonies, or mentoring emerging leaders, Tanya brings forward a rare balance of strategic expertise and spiritual groundedness—empowering others to reclaim voice, sovereignty, and joy.

About Allen Sutherland

Anishinaabek Historian, Knowledge Keeper, and Healer
Waabshkii Masinazoot Michtaatim (White Spotted Horse) | Bizhiw Doodem (Lynx Clan)

Allen Sutherland, known by his spirit name Waabshkii Masinazoot Michtaatim (White Spotted Horse), is Anishinaabe of the Bizhiw Doodem (Lynx Clan) and a proud member of Skownan First Nation, Treaty 2 Territory. He is a respected Anishinaabek Elder, Traditional Knowledge Keeper, Healer, and Historian, whose work has had a generational impact on the understanding of Indigenous governance, identity, and history across Turtle Island.

For more than thirty years, Allen has worked within First Nations communities and across federal and provincial governments, always serving as a bridge between the traditional and contemporary worlds. He is widely known for his creation of the Canadian Indigenous Timeline Posters and the Red River Métis Posters, which continue to educate and inspire truth and understanding across Canada.

Allen provides teachings and facilitation that share Anishinaabe perspectives on history, culture, and leadership, supporting communities in restoring balance and sovereignty through ancestral knowledge. He currently serves as Knowledge Keeper East for two Child & Family Service Agencies in Treaty 2 Territory and is the Lodge Keeper of the Ginew Healing Lodge, located in Treaty 1 Territory, Cooks Creek, Manitoba.

Through his life’s work, Allen carries forward the principles of mino bimaadiziwin—the good life—reminding all who listen that healing and governance are living teachings, intertwined and inseparable from the spirit of the people.