Description
The Warrior program began in the summer of 2015 in the Yuułuʔiłʔatḥ community of Hitacu on the West Coast of Vancouver Island. Today the program model is hosted in several Nuu-chah-nulth communities, weaving traditional and mainstream leadership and wellness teachings and practices together on the land to strengthen the connections, capability, cultural pride and confidence of young men. It has come to teach survival in three ways: wilderness survival skills if you get lost in the woods; how to survive and lead in emergency situations; and strategies to survive life in today’s society.