An Indigenous healing organization is offering its services to the Justice for Our Stolen Children camp in Regina.
The protest camp has been on the grounds of the Saskatchewan Legislature for more than four months in response to the not guilty verdicts in the deaths of Colten Boushie and Tina Fontaine.
The camp is calling for vast improvements in the Indigenous child welfare and foster care systems.
Now the File Hills Qu’Appelle Tribal Council is reaching out to members of the Justice for Our Stolen Children camp.
FHQTC’s White Raven Healing Centre has set up an on-site tipi at the camp to offer professional mental health services.
FHQTC says these services are geared toward those who have experienced trauma in the child welfare and justice systems.
“We recognize and aim to assist in the effort of the camp to bring healing to the people that often go without,” FHQTC Tribal Chief Edmund Bellegarde says in a released statement. “That is what White Raven is all about; healing people by combining our cultural and the contemporary methods and providing solutions to the public policy challenge that this camp is crying out for.”
The White Raven Healing Centre operates out of FHQTC’s All Nations Healing Hospital.
Members of the Justice for Our Stolen Children camp met with Saskatchewan Justice Minister Don Morgan earlier in the week to press their demands.
(PHOTO: Justice for Our Stolen Children camp, courtesy Dan Jones)