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National Indigenous News September 11 · 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 Darrell Stranger.
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  SPEAKER_00: A First Nation north of Edmonton wants to be a safe haven for anyone seeking gender-affirming care.
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  SPEAKER_00: Satellite Cre Nation announced on Wednesday its intentions to create a new health law to regulate healthcare on its lands and territories, including protecting clinicians providing gender-affirming treatments currently banned by the government of Alberta.
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  SPEAKER_00: The nation said healthcare is a treaty right and should fall under its own jurisdiction.
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  SPEAKER_00: It explained it would create the health law via a commitment in Treaty No.
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  SPEAKER_00: 6, promising that a medicine chest shall be kept at the house of each Indian agent for the use and benefit of the Indians.
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  SPEAKER_00: That commitment, the nation added, must be understood in the context of current health needs, which would include gender-affirming care.
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  SPEAKER_00: Satellite Crenation said it hopes to eventually bring in Canadian trained clinicians to practice gender-affirming care, primary care, and specialist care on its reserved lands and territories for nation members and visitors.
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  SPEAKER_00: If its plan succeeds, those clinicians, it added, would be exempted by the First Nation from any sanctions by professional bodies related to administering banned care.
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  SPEAKER_00: Alberta Premier Daniel Smith said she is taking a hands-off approach and said she has no authority over the First Nation.
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  SPEAKER_00: With a week before the next fuel delivery, an official with the hamlet of Aglulik Nunavut says it might soon run out of diesel, which powers most of the community's essential services.
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  SPEAKER_00: Aglulic has eight fuel storage tanks, three of which are dedicated to storing diesel and have a total capacity of just over 6 million liters.
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  SPEAKER_00: The fuel is used to heat homes, generate electricity, and run municipal water and sewage trucks.
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  SPEAKER_00: Aglulik, a hamlet of just over 2,000 people, gets only one refill of their tanks each year with sea lift, and the next ship is scheduled to bring a new batch of fuel on September 17th.
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  SPEAKER_00: For now, the Hamlet is conserving supplies by stopping home-to-home delivery of heating fuel.
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  SPEAKER_00: On Thursday, Transportation and Infrastructure Nunavut, the territorial department responsible for fuel delivery and management, said there is enough fuel to last until next week.
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  SPEAKER_00: For now, the Hamlet is asking locals to conserve water and electricity until the sealift ship arrives.
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  SPEAKER_00: After repeated pleas from community members over more than two decades, a federally funded study will begin examining the health impacts of the oil sands on residents in Fort Chippewan, an indigenous community in northern Alberta.
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  SPEAKER_00: Many people in the community, located more than 200 kilometers north of Fort McMurray, have long believed there are links between Cancers in Fort Chippewan and the industrial developments upstream along the Athabasca River.
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  SPEAKER_00: Imperial Oil's Curl Mine, which was the site of a 5.3 million liter wastewater spill in 2023, is located around 140 kilometers away from Fort Chippon.
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  SPEAKER_00: The closest project is Suncor Energy's Fort Hills Mine, which is more than 90 kilometers away.
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  SPEAKER_00: Researchers will examine current and historical health data, study local disease patterns, and monitor people and the environment.
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  SPEAKER_00: They will also examine how environmental changes impact the community's culture and daily way of life.
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  SPEAKER_00: The study will be carried out by third-party researchers and overseen by the Metis Nation, the Athabasca Chippewan First Nation, and the Mickasoo Creek First Nation.
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  SPEAKER_00: The federal government will play an observer role.
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  SPEAKER_00: The 10-year,$12 million study was announced by the federal government in August of 2024.
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  SPEAKER_00: The first round of funding arrived in March for the study's planning and governance phase, and the study, called Project Monument Hill, shares the namesake of a local vantage point overlooking Fort Chippewan and Lake Athabasca.
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  SPEAKER_00: The purpose of the new study is to examine how environmental changes have impacted the health of Indigenous people and their community rather than variables like lifestyle factors.
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  SPEAKER_00: That's a look at your national indigenous news.