 Bonjour everybody. My name is Awa Nukwe. My English name is Veronica Kingberg-Ratbold. I am from the Red Lake Nation. I'm of the Eagle Clan. Living in Northern Minnesota, it can get really cold. It can sometimes drop to negative 30 degrees. When there's animals outside, they really need something that's going to keep them warm. And one of the ways we do that is we use straw. What we like to do with the dogs here on the Red Lake Nation is we fill their houses with straw. We really bring our Anishinaabe teachings and values, language, and protocols right into the work that we're doing. That's where our hearts are. We want to connect with our community members. We want to connect with these animals. Ultimately, it just brings so much harmony with one another. I've been so humbled by seeing the love that my community has for the animals and how impactful we can be when we work together and we acknowledge one another. We have empathy for one another. We listen to one another and we support one another. Animals can teach us so much. And one of the greatest things that I think that we're all here to learn in life, which animals can definitely help us all with, is learning how to love more fully.