From 15 years of being a pastry chef, Tammy Maki of White Bear First Nation got a taste of sweet success after winning the Extraordinary Female Entrepreneur Award, at the Indigenous Tourism Association of Canada (ITAC) awards ceremony in Ottawa on Feb 28.
“It was mind blowing to me, I’m still dealing with all of the emotions,” she said while recalling her win.
Maki is the owner and CEO of Raven Rising Global Indigenous Chocolates, a chocolate shop that ships Canada-wide handcrafted bonbons, bars and confections that are made with the rich traditions of Indigenous cultures.
“When I originally started this business, right around that time when I was doing all that wonderful paper work that you have to do, I was finding out that I was actually a child of [the] Sixties Scoop, and that I had a blood family that I was only peripherally aware of,” she explained.
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