Cultural supports available, with many wildfire evacuees using Alberta friendship centres as a gathering place for smudging and praying.
At this point, Moerkoert’s home community of Fort Resolution, located near Hay River and Fort Smith, has not been evacuated. While that brings some relief to Moerkoert, she says social media postings indicate it’s only a matter of time as the community has been cut off from food deliveries.On Monday, Grande Prairie and High Level began hosting the first evacuees from the N.W.T. Friendship centres in both communities started being a haven for Indigenous residents.
Cultural supports have also been made available, with many Indigenous evacuees using the centre as a gathering place for smudging and praying.The Grande Prairie Friendship Centre is also a space for smudging and prayer, says Moerkoert, and this weekend it will open to evacuees only for a moose-stew-and-bannock supper on Saturday and a ham-and-mashed-potatoes supper on Sunday. Dancing and drumming will also be welcomed.
Moerkoert added that many evacuees had never driven in a city before, so volunteers drove the evacuees to their hotels.Article content
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