At the Ceremony, Eldawik Metis Council Speaker, Audra Owen, was chosen at random from the crowd and asked to read the following text during the unveiling. Quite an honour!

Within.

Finally, we look within and acknowledge and honour our own spirits. We often don't consider ourselves to be of value or to be important, but we are.  The Creator, the Great Spirit, is in all of us.  We are an essential part of life. We are life in action, loving, moving and growing.  In our center is our home of our Heart, may we always return to this place, so that we may know the meaning of our journey.  From here to the center of our being, we can reach out in all directions and to all our relations.  However, we must always remember to be humble, for we are NOT the center of creation.  We must always listen to our hearts, the tiny Elder within us that can never lie and never mislead us.