Patricia Big George grew up in Naotkamegwanning First Nation. Pakwangwetook ndigo, Makwa indoodem. She is a mother, sister, aunty, grandma, also a Genocide School Survivor (IRS) and survivor of Indian Day school. She is a Treaty #3 member. She grew up speaking her traditional language, and preserving ceremonies and land knowledge in spite of the IRS disruption. Her first language is Anishinaabemowin; she went to school to teach the language. She has done some translation for NAN Legal Services, worked with a radio skit for a hospital situation, translated cartoon skits with her dialect and a Manitoba dialect. Patricia has a western education but holds her traditional knowledge closer to her heart that another educational standard, because that is who she is as Anishinaabe. She says that she has done pretty much what she wanted to do in life but needs to awaken knowledge of the Anishinaabe traditional ways of life. She worked in westernized society until she retired from Customs, was an Indian Act elected chief for her community and is always willing to pass on the traditional knowledge that she has.