The 15-day Walk for Action event, which is seeing about a dozen walkers travel from Edmonton to Calgary, is in Mountain View County today.
The walkers are from Indigenous communities, as well as health professionals, members of the faith community, and educators.
The walk is being undertaken to spur dialogue and seek solutions to areas of concern.
They stayed at Olds College on Monday night and expected to stay in the Carstairs Bancroft United Church on Tuesday night. They are travelling south along Highway 2A today.
“We’ve experienced nothing but awesome hospitality,” said participant Allegra Firesen Epp, a Treaty 1 member from Winnipeg, as the walkers set out from Olds Tuesday morning.
During evening stay-overs, the walkers have been holding sharing circles with community members.
“The sharing circles we’ve been able to host each evening have been incredibly moving and given people a chance to explore and reflect on what it means to be treaty people," she said. "We have new folks every evening and then folks joining us every day as well. We have about a dozen folks who are walking the whole way and others come for a week at a time and some for a day at a time.”
The sharing circle talk in Carstairs takes place at the church from 7 to 9 p.m. Tuesday, June 11.
