For three years, the RCMP officer had come to see Margorie Hudson at the Berens River First Nation, on the eastern shore of Lake Winnipeg, and tried to persuade her to become the first
Indigenous woman in Manitoba to join the force.
In the third year, Hudson relented, wrote the exam and was accepted.
She recalls clearly the first words she heard as an RCMP trainee from the man who had been recruiting her.
“‘They’re accepting you,’ he said, ‘But don’t ever quit. Please don’t ever quit,’” she recounts. “I said, ‘Why?’ He said, ‘Because they think you’re going to quit because you’re an Indian.’
