09/02/2026
In 1997 the RCMP teamed up with First Nations artist Roy Henry Vickers. The idea was an Indigenous treatment centre in BC. They called it Vision Quest. A Journey of Hope.
A female elder from the Paul family at Tsartlip gifted them a drum song in the sweat. That song travelled 1000 miles by canoe from Ksan Village on the Skeena River down the coast, stopping at every village. It ended in Victoria at the 1997 North American Indigenous Games.
Calvin Swustus paddled that journey. He still shares the elder’s drum song with RCMP members, pictured here at KHC, and keeps teaching it.