Community groups hold 2nd smudge walk in Winnipeg's North End
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Shelley Anderson carried a can of burning sage around Winnipeg's North End Tuesday to help bring traditional medicines directly to the people.
Anderson said it's important for the large Indigenous population in the neighbourhood.
"I think it's important for us to smudge," said Anderson, who is from Roseau River Anishinabe First Nation.
"It's really important for us to be in the community and show the community that we want to be with them and support them and smudge with them."
She started working for Indigenous Vision for the North End in the summer, and helped co-ordinate the organization's second Smudge the North End event.
"It's important to bring the culture back because even for me, I wasn't really in the culture. So it is nice to be able to have those opportunities," said Anderson.
Anderson and co-organizer Jewel Pierre-Roscelli invited participants from a number of frontline organizations who work in the neighbourhood.
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