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National Indigenous News May 20 · National Indigenous Newscasts

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  SPEAKER_00: This is a look at your National Indigenous News.
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  SPEAKER_00: I'm Daryl Stranger.
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  SPEAKER_00: Sturgeon Lake Crenation, in conjunction with the University of Alberta, announced it has identified 62 potential unmarked graves after a two-year search of its land.
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  SPEAKER_00: However, the First Nation, which is located in northern Alberta, says it's too early to say whether any of the sites of interest contain human remains.
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  SPEAKER_00: The community has been looking for the remains of 82 children between the ages of 7 and 16 who went to St.
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  SPEAKER_00: Francis Xavier Residential School between 1907 and 1962.
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  SPEAKER_00: The former school site is in the First Nation.
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  SPEAKER_00: A number of the potential unmarked graves are in areas that are known to be recent or older cemetery locations, specifically ones in close proximity to St.
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  SPEAKER_00: Francis Xavier Catholic Church and the Hudson's Bay Post.
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  SPEAKER_00: Nine of the 62 are not within a cemetery location, but rather in areas where there's likely to be buried human remains.
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  SPEAKER_00: The team working with the First Nation used a combination of technologies, including drone imagery, various kinds of ground penetrating radar, electromagnetic conductivity, magnetic radiometry, and a relatively new technology called soil spectroscopy.
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  SPEAKER_00: Sturgeon Lake Cre Nation said they are applying for funding to continue the work through a federal program called the Residential School's Missing Children Community Support Fund.
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  SPEAKER_00: The government of the Northwest Territories says it is fighting three wildfires and says people caused two of those fires.
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  SPEAKER_00: They said one human-caused wildfire in the South Slave region is under control, and the fire is measuring roughly the size of a large house.
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  SPEAKER_00: The government of the Northwest Territories said they are also fighting an out-of-control overwintering fire in the South Slave region that began on May 9th.
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  SPEAKER_00: An overwinter fire is one that remains dormant or undetected for a considerable amount of time after it starts.
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  SPEAKER_00: The overwinter fire was found using infrared scanning along the perimeter of the Fort Providence wildfire last year.
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  SPEAKER_00: Firefighters will attack hotspots found by scanning and get rid of the remaining heat using heavy equipment.
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  SPEAKER_00: The third fire the government had said they are fighting is an out-of-control wildfire the size of a Canadian Football League end zone in the North Slave region.
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  SPEAKER_00: The wildfire began on Saturday and was human-caused, and fire officials in the Northwest Territories warned last month that this year could be a challenging year for wildfire season because of ongoing droughts in parts of the territory.
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  SPEAKER_00: A traditional Inuit lamp called the Kulik has been approved as an optional spiritual emblem for headstones at the National Military Cemetery.
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  SPEAKER_00: The Kulik emblem was unveiled this week in a ceremony at Beachwood Cemetery in Ottawa, attended by Governor General Mary Simon.
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  SPEAKER_00: Traditionally carved from soapstone and fueled by whale or seal oil, the lamp symbolizes light, warmth, guidance, and survival and is meant to reflect Inuit members' service in the Canadian Armed Forces.
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  SPEAKER_00: First Nations and Metis cultural symbols for headstones and the National Military Cemetery were unveiled in 2022.
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  SPEAKER_00: The First Nations Medicine Wheel and Metis Infinity Symbol are among a dozen religious and spiritual symbols that can be engraved on military headstones at the cemetery.
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  SPEAKER_00: The introduction of the symbols was the result of a collaborative process between the federal government and indigenous groups meant to better represent indigenous spirituality.
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  SPEAKER_00: That's a look at your national Indigenous News.