Researcher heads to Saskatchewan community to study climate change – APTN News

November 26, 2019

A researcher with the David Suzuki Foundation was in one of the oldest settlements in Saskatchewan to track the effects of climate change on the community and found that there are many issues facing people there.

Priscilla Settee is in Cumberland House, 506 kilometres northeast of Regina, a mainly Cree and Métis community.

“My family came from here and its so amazing to be back so amazing to be back,” she told APTN News. “My job here is to interview trappers and to talk about the trapping life that they had I the past before the big dam was put in and talk about what it meant culturally and economically and personally community wise family wise.”

Settee talked to people like Mary Louise Carriere, who described how trapping was decades ago.

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