Rocking the aboriginal vote: Alberta community leaders note increased political engagement – Edmonton Journal
EDMONTON – Katherine Swampy, the NDP candidate for Drayton Valley-Devon, is logging a long day on the campaign trail, door-knocking in Ermineskin Cree First Nation and Louis Bull First Nation.
They are two of the four nations that make up Maskwacis, where she is from.
“I don’t think any of the other parties have been to any of these houses. I’m not seeing signs, and when I’m door knocking, they’re surprised,” she says. “All the other houses I’ve gone to (off the reserves) had tons of people knocking.”
Surprised and happy. Not happy because Swampy is aboriginal, per se, but because, she says, “there’s someone there who’s actually looking out for them.”
