Greater Sudbury Police Service partners with Indigenous youth on a moose hunting initiative to learn and appreciate traditional values
Indigenous community partners were brought together with the Greater Sudbury Police Service and several social agencies Friday for the annual launch of the youth moose hunt initiative.
It's not about guns and it's not about scoring a fresh supply of moose meat. Const. Darrell Rivers, the Indigenous Liaison Officer with GSPS, said the initiative is about establishing a positive relationship between the young people and the police service, and others. "A lot of the youth in the program they come from a child welfare agency. So there's some trauma there, because when they see that uniform, they remember either us taking them away, or we took the caregivers away from their home. So there's trauma there," Rivers said.
In preparation for the hunt, young people are paired with a GSPS Officer and an agency mentor throughout the summer and into the fall where together they learn about traditional Anishnawbek values through the Seven Grandfather Teachings and participate in training and activities that includes hunting education, firearms safety, first aid, tactical demonstrations, the moose hunt and teachings on gratitude and giving thanks.
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