Kelly Chinchilla, a teacher from Seven Oaks School Division in Winnipeg was at Morden Paddlefest to celebrate Indigenous Peoples Day along with Rylee Sandberg, and Southern Thunderbird Medicine Drum.

"My daughter and I do this here and there, especially in the summertime we get invited to different communities," says Chinchilla.

She is excited to see things changing as communities open up to learning more about Indigenous culture.

"Where the population is largely non-Indigenous it's nice to be invited because I know that this didn't happen even maybe 20 years ago."

Chinchilla loves to take her daughter with so she can grow up with their culture and learn to be proud of that.

As well, doing the performance is a way of healing the past and making a strong future for the next generation.

"I grew up in Winnipeg, went to school in Winnipeg, and [in] the schools I went to Indigenous people were a minority."

Indigenous education and resources for learning are constantly being added to school curriculum which is another factor that makes the next years to come look very bright.

"That is what reconciliation is about. Making relationships and also healing from the past for have a better future together as Indigenous and non-Indigenous people," adds Chinchilla.

She is from the Roseau River First Nation, not far from Morden, and says being asked to perform was a welcoming experience knowing that older generations did not always receive the same treatment.