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By Laura Mushumanski, Local Journalism Initiative Reporter, Alberta Native News \u201cWhatever you learn in life, you share it,\u201d says Andrea Godin. There is strength in unity, she adds, and when coming together and doing good things, knowledge sharing is at the core of all that we do. Godin has been working for her nation \u2013 the Dene Tha\u2019 First Nation located in Treaty 8 Territory \u2013 in some capacity, since she finished high school. But it wasn\u2019t until she turned 21 that she decided to put an end to a cycle she noticed within her communities and family systems. \u201cI wanted a different journey,\u201d she shared. That led her to pursue an education in business administration at MacEwan University. While employed by her nation to work with numbers and administration,… <\/p>\n

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By Laura Mushumanski, Local Journalism Initiative Reporter, Alberta Native News \u201cWhatever you learn in life, you share it,\u201d says Andrea Godin. There is strength in unity, she adds, and when coming together and doing good things, knowledge sharing is at the core of all that we do. Godin has been working for her nation \u2013 the Dene Tha\u2019 First Nation located in Treaty 8 Territory \u2013 in some capacity, since she finished high school. But it wasn\u2019t until she turned 21 that she decided to put an end to a cycle she noticed within her communities and family systems. \u201cI wanted a different journey,\u201d she shared. That led her to pursue an education in business administration at MacEwan University. While employed by her nation to work with numbers and administration,... <\/p>\n

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