Editing For Better or For Worse (section)

===Mtigwaki===
Mtigwaki is a fictional [[Ojibwe]] community in Northern Ontario near [[Lake Nipigon]], where Elizabeth Patterson taught from 2004 to 2006.<ref>More information about Mtigwaki and how it was created is available on  [http://www.fborfw.com/features/mtigwaki/ the official website].</ref> While in school, Elizabeth took a practice teaching job in [[Garden Village, Ontario|Garden Village]] near North Bay.

The community was created with ''Baloney & Bannock'' comic creator Perry McLeod-Shabogesic, of the [[Nipissing First Nation|N'biising Nation]] (Anishinabek Crane Clan). McLeod-Shabogesic worked with Johnston to create an authentic world for the characters to inhabit. His son, Falcon Skye McLeod-Shabogesic, created the Mtigwaki First Nation's logo, which is inspired in part by a [[Dreamcatcher (Native American)|dreamcatcher]], and his wife Laurie assisted Johnston with the Ojibwa language and was written directly into the strip as a [[teaching assistant]] in Elizabeth's classroom. Mtigwaki is shown like many Indigenous villages, with private houses, a meeting hall, a medical station and a casino.

For the series of strips in Mtigwaki, Johnston was awarded the Debwewin Citation for excellence in [[First Nations in Canada|Aboriginal]] issues journalism by the [[Union of Ontario Indians]] in 2004.<ref>Deirdre Tombs, [http://www.thefreelibrary.com/Cartoonist%27s+ordinary+Native+people+celebrated.-a0128437974 "Cartoonist's ordinary Native people celebrated"]. ''Windspeaker'', 2005.</ref>