Indigenous film, TV producer Lisa Meeches 'getting better' after stroke

Indigenous documentarian, film and television producer Lisa Meeches says she is on the road to recovery weeks after suffering a stroke in Alberta.

"I'm getting better," Meeches, the executive director of the Manito Ahbee Festival, said in a Facebook post Thursday night. "Thank you everyone for your understanding and kindness and generosity."

Meechessitson the Aboriginal Peoples' Advisory Committee for the Downtown Winnipeg BIZ.

She spent about a week in a Calgary hospital before returning to Winnipeg in August.

Lisa Meeches is the host and producer of Taken, which launches tonight, Sept. 9, on APTN. CBC is a co-broadcaster of thetrue crime documentary series focusing on solving the mysteries behind Canada's missing and murdered Indigenous women and girls by sharing their stories as told by their loved ones, and following the search for justice, and the clues that link these stories.