When Teagan Littlechief sings in front of thousands of fans at Sunday's Grey Cup game, she'll be thinking about Canada's Indigenous youth.
Littlechief, who is from White Bear First Nation on Treaty 4 territory in southeastern Saskatchewan, says she was often the only Indigenous person on stage when she first started performing.
"My Cree teacher today was giving me the lowdown of pronunciations and what would sound better with what words." Littlechief, who also works as an addictions counsellor and youth worker, has her own singing accolades to brag about. Littlechief said has been in love with music since she was a child, when her brother would put headphones on her and she'd dance herself to sleep, but said the road to success hasn't been easy."I always dreamt that when I had my first child ... I’d raise them in a substance-abuse-free home, and that’s not the life that he got," Littlechief said of her 11-year-old son, Gabriel.
"That day, I decided that was it. It was probably the hardest, hardest adventure – I'm going to call it an adventure – because I missed out on so much of my son’s life, and now I'm slowly able to make up for it." " is super excited. He’s always saying my mom’s singing the anthem and he says, 'Mom, the kids at school know me." Littlechief said of her upcoming Grey Cup performance.
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