Our Leadership.

Lacrosse Roots.

Miles grew up inside the Six Nations lacrosse tradition. He played on the 1992 Six Nations Arrows team that became the first Indigenous team to win the Minto Cup and was drafted by the Buffalo Bandits in 1992, the same year the expansion club won its first professional championship.

He was also a core member of the Six Nations Chiefs team that won three consecutive Mann Cup national championships in 1994, 1995, and 1996. Lacrosse later became a way to lead. As head coach of the Six Nations Jr. B Rebels, he treated coaching as responsibility beyond the floor: young men needed discipline, honest conversation, and someone willing to listen.

Personal Healing.

Miles has publicly described his path through incarceration, alcohol addiction, and Indigenous-focused justice alternatives, including IPC court, circle sentencing, the Ontario Correctional Institute, and Native Horizons.

In a 2017 interview, he spoke about a 14-month sentence at OCI and completing that sentence at Native Horizons. He described rehabilitation as essential to getting his life back, then returned to Six Nations focused on motivational speaking, coaching, and helping others believe that accountability and community support can change the direction of a life.

Traditional Healing.

Miles is a spiritual healer and Pipe Carrier. He has worked with the mental-health and psychiatric team at McMaster Children's Hospital, where he was permitted to bring traditional medicines into the hospital and administer them in support of patients.

That experience reflects the role he continues to carry: bringing cultural and spiritual practice into settings where Indigenous people may otherwise be separated from those forms of care.

Addiction Circles.

Miles founded the SixMiles Inspiring Friends Addiction group and kept it active for approximately two and a half years, including through part of the COVID period. SixMiles records describe members reaching sustained sobriety milestones through that circle.

This work established a practical pattern that continues through SixMiles: consistent meetings, honest accountability, cultural grounding, and people staying involved beyond a single appointment.

7Sticks.

Miles co-founded 7Sticks Men's Mental Health and Addiction Circle on October 31, 2024. It uses lacrosse as a culturally meaningful foundation for prevention, healing, conversation, and men's mental wellness.

SixMiles records state that 7Sticks works with the Indigenous Mental Health and Addictions office at Brantford General Hospital and has participated in four circle sentencing processes.

Reintegration Work.

His support has included people returning from incarceration and parole: finding a place to stay, reconnecting with parole or probation, securing employment, building daily structure, and moving toward independent work.

One organization-documented example combined lodging, local supervision support, a job through SixMiles, and help starting a lawn-care business. It became a direct proof point for the SixMiles belief that housing, work, mentorship, and accountability must operate together.

Justice Service.

Miles's work moved into the systems he once experienced from the other side. White Buffalo Road Healing Lodge publicly lists him for Indigenous Circle Hearings and the Native Inmate Liaison Office in Six Nations. SixMiles records also describe contracted NILO work at OCI, a co-Elder role supporting southern Ontario penitentiaries beginning in 2024, and an invitation to speak at OCI's 50th anniversary.

SixMiles has also reached the final contract stage for service work with the Hamilton-Wentworth Detention Centre, with signing expected shortly.

Building Opportunity.

Miles has built businesses and employment pathways, including a manufacturing operation that supported 13 jobs and SixMiles Security, which organization records describe as supporting six employees.

He has now ceased tobacco manufacturing to focus his work on addictions, mental health, traditional healing, and justice-based reintegration. The next phase carries forward the same commitment to work, certifications, mentorship, income, and responsibility through community enterprises aligned with the SixMiles mission.

Why SixMiles.

SixMiles brings those experiences together. Miles has seen what happens when a person leaves treatment, court, or incarceration without stable housing, meaningful work, cultural grounding, or people who remain involved.

His answer is not a single program. It is a place where housing, work, healing, culture, accountability, and community connection can operate together long enough for change to take hold. SixMiles is fully insured, and the long-term vision includes Section 81 and 84 pathways for federally sentenced Indigenous men while the current work builds the housing, training, partnerships, and operating readiness that such a model requires.

SixMiles stands within a longer Indigenous movement for alternatives to incarceration. Miles's story explains why this centre is being built as a practical place to return to, not simply another short-term program.