Guardians of Edehzhie adapt to protect Indigenous land during COVID-19 pandemic
Emma Tranter
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The Canadian Press
There was a time last year when the guardians of Edehzhie would head out on the land in the Northwest Territories and worry what their communities might look like when they returned.
That was when COVID-19 started to sweep across Canada, threatening the country’s northern communities, including those around the protected area known as Edehzhie in the Dehcho region of the N.W.T.