The inside of Tony Kakfwi’s teepee includes a wood stove emanating warmth, a couple beds, a table cluttered with beading materials, a cackling radio and a few chairs.
It’s a clean space, but more importantly, it’s a space to heal.
He’s been living at a healing camp for those who are homeless and struggling with addiction, run out of Aurora Village— a tourist destination 15 km outside Yellowknife — where, before the pandemic, visitors could warm up in teepees and watch the northern lights.
Kakfwi sits beside Cassien Kaskamin, both were at one time homeless, but the teepees at Aurora Village have become
