Morgan’s Warriors: Melissa Robinson’s fight to search a landfill and prevent other tragedies

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It’s a muggy, mid-September night and more than a dozen people are gathering outside of the Aboriginal Centre near the corner of Main St. and Higgins Ave. in Winnipeg.

They’re smudging, handing out NARCAN kits and gearing up for the first outreach walk by Morgan’s Warriors in nearly two weeks.

A lot of the city’s unsheltered live in the area where there are encampments and shelters nearby.

There is also a lot of drug and alcohol use. It’s a good target area for Morgan’s Warriors to check in on some of the city’s most vulnerable.

“We’re going to be going down Main St. tonight and we’re going to see hundreds of people that are going to be lined up along the streets of Main, intoxicated. Struggling with that trauma that they’ve experienced from the residential schools, from our child welfare, foster homes, being placed in homes that maybe aren’t doing it for the right reasons. And it’s really sad because there’s definitely not enough resources out there,” says Melissa Robinson.

Robinson is the co-chair of Morgan’s Warriors, an Indigenous women led, outreach group formed as a way to honour her cousin, Morgan Harris, one of the four Indigenous women murdered by a Winnipeg serial killer. Her remains are believed to be located in a landfill north of the city of Winnipeg.

“Morgan was feisty, she was loving and all about her family and when the system failed her and took her kids – she then lost herself,” says Robinson.

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