As the climate crisis intensifies, more than 6,400 wildfires scorched almost 18 million hectares this year, forcing thousands of natives to flee for their lives.
this year, but everything that made her and many other Indigenous people in the area feel at home — the spruce forests that enveloped her town, providing not just food but protection, everything from game to medicinal plants — is gone.
Wildfires are now"so dangerous and fast-moving" that evacuations are increasingly necessary, says Amy Cardinal Christianson, a Canadian Forest Service researcher who studies the effects of burns on Indigenous communities. But the fires have become so big and numerous of late that authorities have been forced to prioritise saving homes in larger towns or cities under threat, over all else.
"It smells like death," says Jerome, adding that she sobs when she thinks of all the wildlife that got trapped by advancing fires.At the same time, however, the fires have prompted renewed interest in reviving Indigenous practices that are currently curtailed.
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