Bear Clan: a model of indigenous activism that's swept across Canada
An organisation founded in the 90s and revived in 2014 is now 1,100 volunteers who walk the streets looking for ways to help
In a small room in a Winnipeg community centre, dozens of volunteers strap on bright yellow vests and ready themselves for night patrol. Some will pick up syringes along the way, others will hand out fresh fruit and water – all under the banner of protecting the city’s most vulnerable.
“We are the boots on the ground,” said James Favel, the founder of Winnipeg’s Bear Clan. “We are the direct action that our nation has been crying for for decades.”
It’s a model of indigenous activism that has
