13-01-2018 23:42 via edmontonjournal.com

Indigenous history training piloted in Edmonton expands to RCMP cadets

An RCMP pilot project that started in Edmonton is gaining national traction in an effort to give police officers a better understanding of Indigenous history.
“It’s really powerful the emotions you see come out of people,” said Insp. Honey Dwyer, head of Aboriginal policing in Saskatchewan.
She first introduced the Kairos Blanket Exercise to a group of 54 officers in Edmonton in 2016. The program, now in its twentieth year, was originally developed for the public in response to
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