Miss Indigenous Canada contestant helps First Nations in emergency situations – Anishinabek News

July 3, 2024

KETTLE AND STONY POINT FIRST NATION— Miss Indigenous Canada contestant Alabama Bressette is from Kettle and Stony Point First Nation and currently working in Poplar River First Nation, Manitoba, where she works in emergency management.

“I’ve been working with ISN Maskwa for about a year. It’s proud to be an Indigenous organization that helps during emergency situations – floods, fires – and gives community engagement during a state of emergency, drug epidemics, doing patrols around communities, kinda like security. We are CSPs (community support personnel) – we’re here helping the community with whatever Chief and Council asks for.”

Her employer can take over entire communities to do evacuations as well, says Alabama.

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