Indigenous land is disproportionately affected by wildfire and their isolated nature makes aid access difficult
When Robert Laboucan pictured his son taking his first steps he imagined it would be at home, maybe even in front of a camera in their living room. Instead, the one-year-old first walked in the hallway of the Flamingo Inn in High Level, the tiny Alberta town where the family have been living for more than a year after escaping the massive wildfires that devastated the Indigenous-owned Fox Lake Reserve.
“It was really hard,” said Laboucan, a member of the Little Red River Cree Nation.
