 Good morning everyone. I'd like to thank the FSI media for organizing this media press this morning. Today is day 28 of the search for Frank Young. Local crews both Red Earth and Sholei crew nation have continued the searches along with outside search and rescue crews as well. At the moment as well we are currently waiting for a response from the Rangers for additional support for search and rescue support. We thank the people and the group that helped the account light vigil in Edmonton, Alberta at the legislative grounds last night. We also extended that solidarity with the Red Earth Cree Nation and Sholei Cree Nation and the Prince Albert Grand Council as well as we did that candlelight vigil at 8 p.m. last night to stand and continue to send that message of hope. Now we will have Frank Young's family spokesperson his aunt Teresa Whitecap and if the family wants to stand behind to show support for her while she speaks. Good morning everybody coming from my family that are standing behind me. We are Frank's family, five year old Frank, my grandson. My name is Teresa Whitecap. However since day one when Frank went missing we came as a family. I just want to make that known to everybody that my family are very strong and the reason that we are strong is because we come together as one. And it is the prayers that keep us to give that provides the strength. We are thankful for that. Despite this being day 28 we still are we still view this mission as a rescue mission. Toria was in the North Battleford area two days ago and I had to get a few things doing some visiting around and I had a little tug someone tugged on my arm thinking it was an adult I turn around and look I looked down and was a was a little boy about yay hi what a seven year old boy a figure and he wanted me to say something to you guys tell them we hope Frank comes home that's what this young boy said so other children are praying out there we're praying and as the many speakers before me said we won't give up we want to do a call out and a request and an expectation the Prime Minister Trudeau and Premier Scott Mo to support us to send your resources to send the army the Rangers there was a lot of fatigue that has transpired the last the last month from the searchers and the day Frank went missing everybody acted right away the caregiver my niece Barb right away when searching for him when he knew it was not with the with the siblings and the whole neighborhood joined in they focused on the neighborhood and when they couldn't find Frank around the neighborhood Barb went towards the the main reserve that's where the store is they weren't looking for Frank there's a playground there and there's another playground that exists within the community but to no avail they couldn't find him Jarvis at that time went to a there's a subdivision called nada camp that's where he went to get some water for his family so Barb called him are you with Frank and he said no I'm not with Frank so by the time he came back to the house Jarvis the fire suppression joined in knowing what was knowing what was happening they started helping with the search around three three o'clock they decided to notify RCMP of what was happening RCMP responded right away and we thank them for that and caregiver detachment responded right away and they came to Redhurst they did the investigation and asking questions who was with Frank who saw Frank and I'm glad that some of the people that responded to these questions I thank them for for helping us as the ground chief said we assisted leadership and made an ask to have the Rangers deployed into the community to help search for Frank young the chief is waiting for a response from the government back when they will be deployed and if they will be deployed to the community that we are hoping that that request will be made for the leadership and for the family and as we stated before in previous media releases that we will not we will not stop until we find Frank and that's the message that we continue to send and we are we thank we thank you we ask you to keep sending your prayers about the both to the family to the young family and also the Redhurst creenation and surely creenation so without the thank you a bless and I talked to my family not too long ago you know once we find Frank we are going to hold a big community feast for all the people that have come and helps search Frank to give them to give say thank you to them and I want to host it in Redhurst because that's where Frank is raised by his auntie Barb because I believe that Indian culture you know that's our tradition to give thanks is to hold a feast to say thank you for all the people that come into our lives and I'm glad that we were able to do this today we've been putting it off because we were hoping each day that Frank would be brought a room to us and I told my my nieces continue holding on to that hope and that's what keeps us going every day is the hope that we're gonna see Frank I pray for all the searchers all the people that are in our circle I pray for everybody in the morning or when I'm traveling when I go to bed when I wake up middle of the night I pray and I pray asking our Heavenly Father to guide the searchers to bring Frank home to us Jamie Smallboy says the case of missing five-year-old Frank young at Redhurst creenation is just another example of a system that doesn't serve missing indigenous people when young went missing April 19th RCMP said his disappearance didn't meet the criteria to warrant an amber alert there was no evidence he'd been abducted but Jamie Smallboy says situations on reserves are different well on a reserve the opportunities for people to witness an abduction are not the same as in a city or in a town setting because you have people on every corner in a city but not on the reserve we do have people that drive on the reserves looking and hunting for our women and our children they don't include that they don't that doesn't even hit the amber alert criteria and also it needs to be adjusted to be inclusive of all the differences Smallboy believes the ball gets dropped many times when an indigenous person is reported missing that's kind of it seems like where the breakdown is the individuals bias they take it upon themselves well is this an emergency or is this not emergency is this person really missing or are they just indigenous and they're out breaking or they're out of cousins or they're out of nadis Smallboy is hoping to present the change.org petition to Justice Minister David Limetti and the Minister of Crown Indigenous Relations Mark Miller this fall and plans to gather more signatures over the summer