The handbook should contribute to success in This is especially true of the women in the community, recruiting, recognizing, and retaining Aboriginal the life givers who must nourish their children and women volunteers based on the advantages and start them out on the right path. [...] These insights As stated previously, we used our observations to formed the basis for the development of our gathering develop questions for the gathering sessions and sessions and questionnaire. [...] Participants felt that five members of the team circle that we established to several of the questions should be reworded into review our research objectives and procedures.2 plain conversational language to increase clarity of meaning and facilitate willingness to speak by the Our first meeting with the team circle took place at the respondent. [...] However, we came to the conclusion that the viewpoints in the film were already The team circle also reviewed the questionnaire and commonplace among Aboriginal people. [...] Therefore its guidelines, helping us confirm that the questions the use of the video in the gathering sessions was were logical, flowed well, were appropriate for all determined to be a good way for getting everyone to Aboriginal women across Canada, and were relevant start thinking about the research and the questions it to our research goals.