PAGC Healing Lodge: 20 years later
For almost 20 years, a healing lodge outside Prince Albert has worked with Indigenous men during some the darkest years of their lives.
Sept. 8 marks the double-decade anniversary of the Prince Albert Grand Council’s spiritual healing lodge. The lodge has served as a rehabilitation centre for men serving anything between day parole and the last two years of a sentence.
The healing lodge is located just east of the city, a short distance from Highway 55. The grounds include six cabins, summer and winter sweat lodges, a talking circle room and an administration room.
Healing lodges are misperceived in the public eye as a vacation home for inmates, a point acting director Nicole Crookedneck disputes.