A historic number of women are serving their communities as chief
A historic number of women are serving their communities as chief

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AFN National Chief Cindy Woodhouse Nepinak recently shared on her social media that history has been made with a record number of 164 chiefs who are female across the country. CBC Indigenous spoke with two current and one former chief to learn why they serve.