Warrior Spirit Walking visits Melfort
Members of Warrior Spirit Walking, from Prince Albert, were at the Marguerite Riel Centre in Melfort for a presentation, Thursday, April 26.
Chris Webber
Tuesday May 01, 2007
Members of Warrior Spirit Walking, from Prince Albert, were at the Marguerite Riel Centre in Melfort for a presentation, Thursday, April 26.
The Won-Ska Cultural School’s Warrior Spirit Walking group is made up of kids and young adults off the streets, who are sober, and drug free and who have been in recovery groups.
“They work their way up until you are on the committee and you are a leader, the kids go around and do skits for kids that are high risk, they’re a wonderful group,” said Crystal Munro, of the Marguerite Riel Centre.
The program they put on was about an hour and a half and included music, free style raps, and songs about their stories by Desmin Bird and Alvin Keller, they showed a documentary video that commented on the use of crystal meth and gangs in the area of Prince Albert.
There was also a creative skit, and a testimonial by two of the guys in the group, about how they ended up in Warrior Spirit Walking and their stories.
They also had a power point demonstration illustrating the destruction that drugs and gangs can bring to the lives of people who use them, and the lives of everyone around them.
Warrior Spirit Walking has been together for about three years now, and Kurt Sauve, along with his twin brother, Chris, have been in the program for a few months, and Kurt said it has been a big help for him.
He participates in the presentation anywhere from three times a week to once a month.
He said the group was started by a bunch of troubled youth that all had their own stories to tell and wanted to help other people.
He said they have been to Hatchet Lake and all the surrounding reserves, as well as Nipawin, and Meadow Lake.
“Melfort was awesome; we actually got along with them,” said Kurt Sauve.
He said usually people turn their chairs away and don’t listen to them, but the presentation in Melfort went much better than that.
“A lot of places it’s like that because the gangs don’t want to hear about what we have to say, we still keep trying, it pays off,” said Sauve.
Every year they have to go to somebody else for funding, and just this April they were temporarily shut down due to lack of funding.
Sauve said he just wrote a letter to the Saskatchewan Indian Gaming Authority asking for help.
“It’s a great experience, anybody that wants to get involved is more than welcome,” said Sauve.
source=www.melfortjournal.com
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