200 Advocate Square 5110-51 Avenue, P.O. Box 1028
Cold Lake, AB
Phone: 7805940299
Leighton was born in Regina, Saskatchewan, and spent his childhood in the Kensington neighborhood of north Edmonton. He is a status Indian, with his great-grandfather having served as the Hereditary Chief of the Carry The Kettle or Jack Band in Sintaluta, Saskatchewan. Both his grandmother and great-aunt were well-known survivors of the Brandon Indian Residential School. Leighton's father, a Treaty Indian, dedicated more than twenty years to assisting Indigenous youth in their transition away from urban gangs and established The Spiritkeeper Youth Society..