Posted: Feb 03, 2021 6:33 PM CT | Last Updated: February 4
Annie Trapper Weistche and her husband Kenneth Weistche live near Amos, Que. They are fighting to get Cree living outside the traditional Cree territory access to the COVID-19 vaccine.(submitted by Kenneth Weistche)
Some Cree living outside the jurisdictional Cree health board boundaries in northern Quebec say they feel worse than second-class citizens when it comes to getting access to a COVID-19 vaccine. Where are our rights as Cree people?, said Kenneth Weistche, who lives with his wife Annie Trapper Weistche in the non-Cree town of La Corne, just south of Amos in northern Quebec.