Carrol Johnston counted her blessings as she stood on the barren site where her home was destroyed by a fast-moving wildfire that forced her to flee her northern Alberta community two months ago.
The worst wildfire season in Canadian history is displacing Indigenous communities from Nova Scotia to British Columbia, blanketing them in thick smoke, destroying homes and forests and threatening important cultural activities like hunting, fishing and gathering native plants.Thousands of fires have scorched more than 42,000 square miles across the country so far.
“We don’t just jump in the car and go to the IGA,” for groceries, Supernault said. “We go to the bush.” As of last week, almost 23,000 people from 75 Indigenous settlements have had to evacuate this year, according to Indigenous Services Canada. More than 3,600 people from 15 First Nations reserves in five provinces were evacuated as of Thursday, the agency said.It’s not uncommon for Indigenous communities to evacuate repeatedly, Christianson said.
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