Betz was a woman of action. While some people will encounter a problem or need and look around for someone to do something about it, Betz was the type who would jump in feet first and tackle the problem herself. That's exactly what happened with development of the Native Court Communicators program in Manitoba. One day, Betz was called in to talk to an Aboriginal man who had spent months in jail on a relatively minor charge because he didn't speak English and no one could communicate with him. Betz spoke to him, then cleared things up with the police and soon the charges were dropped and the man was free to go. It was then that Betz recognized the language barriers that some Aboriginal people faced within the court system. She took it upon herself to start going to court and offering her services as an interpreter, and the seeds of the Native Court Communicators program were planted.

Betz had a chance to draw international attention to the shortcomings of the justice system when it came to accommodating Aboriginal people in 1975 when she travelled to Geneva, Switzerland as part of the Canadian delegation to the Fifth United Nations Congress on the Prevention of Crime and the Treatment of Offenders. When the delegation members were introducing themselves, she spoke in Saulteaux, which none of the interpreters could translate. When the translators protested, she simply indicated that this was the situation Aboriginal people found themselves in on a regular basis when they were forced to deal with a justice system where they couldn't function in their own language.

Betz was one of the founders of Winnipeg's Indian and Métis Friendship Centre and of the Kekinan Centre, an Aboriginal seniors residence, and was the first Native woman appointed to the National Parole Board. Over the years, she was involved in numerous other organizations, including the Manitoba Society of Criminology, Manitoba Correctional Institution, the Native Clan Organization, the Aboriginal Centre, the RCMP Aboriginal Advisory Committee, the Manitoba Association of Rights and Liberties, the Native Women's Transition Centre, the Centre for Aboriginal Human Resource Development, Ma Mawi Wi Chi Itata Centre, and the Keteyatsak Elders group. She was also in demand as a public speaker, giving inspiring talks to people about her own story and of how she overcame the hardships in her life and persevered.

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