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National Indigenous News March 27 · National Indigenous Newscasts

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  SPEAKER_01: This is a look at your National Indigenous News.
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  SPEAKER_01: I'm Daryl Stranger.
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  SPEAKER_01: Indigenous Services Minister Mandy Gilmasty announced Thursday a$738.9 million funding package for First Nations healthcare, governance, and emergency management.
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  SPEAKER_01: She is earmarking$55.6 million to build up community preparedness and emergency management coordination.
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  SPEAKER_01: The funds are not directly related to fire management, but could help with operations such as wildfire support.
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  SPEAKER_01: Golmasty's department is under heavy pressure from First Nations leaders in Northern Ontario who say her department is underfunding on reserve fire services, resulting in unnecessary deaths.
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  SPEAKER_01: The funding package includes$400 million over five years for health services and digital health tools in remote communities, including supports for nurses.
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  SPEAKER_01: A new book about the history and the culture of the Blackfoot people will be released in early April.
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  SPEAKER_01: Steven Strand has more.
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  SPEAKER_02: Local Blackfoot historian Jared Tailfellers has spent roughly the past seven years working on a multi-part research project about traditional Blackfoot ways of making.
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  SPEAKER_02: Blackfoot culture has been around for 18,000 years or more, and because a lot of people existed during that time and a lot of notable events occurred, Tailfellers has begun dividing up his research into several books.
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  SPEAKER_02: His second book, called Music of the Earth's Heartbeat, will be released early April and expands on his first book.
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  SPEAKER_00: So there's more information, there's things that I uh went back to at the sites that I didn't know about or that I didn't fully understand or contextualize after I got more information.
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  SPEAKER_00: Okay, so this is why the site is more important.
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  SPEAKER_00: And then I also have you know elders confirm places that I was sort of just guessing uh based on all the research that this is probably an important part, and they're like, Yeah, so this is traditional name and things like that.
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  SPEAKER_02: While this book will be out at the beginning of April, there will be a book launch at Memorial Park Library in Calgary on March 31st.
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  SPEAKER_02: To learn more, head over to our website.
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  SPEAKER_02: In Calgary, I'm Stephen Strand.
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  SPEAKER_01: Nine Indigenous-led projects will receive over$2 million in funding as part of the second phase of Nutrition North Canada's Food Security Research Grant to conduct research on food security and food access inequality in isolated northern communities.
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  SPEAKER_01: These research projects will look at ways to make healthy food affordable and accessible in northern communities.
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  SPEAKER_01: They will examine how food is shipped, owned, and sold, and how these systems affect food quality, availability, and cost, and they'll also consider how hunting, fishing, and local sharing systems can help improve access to both traditional foods and store-bought foods.
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  SPEAKER_01: These grants are, in addition to the$30 million in top-up funding announced last month for Nutrition North Canada, to make nutritious food and essential items more affordable in 124 isolated northern communities by subsidizing the cost of shipping.
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  SPEAKER_01: The 124 isolated northern communities currently benefiting from the Nutrition North Canada program are located in the Yukon, the Northwest Territories, Nunavut, Alberta, Saskatchewan, Manitoba, Ontario, Quebec, and Newfoundland, and Labrador.
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  SPEAKER_01: That's a look at your national Indigenous news.