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Arcand said the clinic provided the tribal council an opportunity to give back to the community and perhaps changed some perceptions for both Indigenous and non-Indigenous people.
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The clinic, which began April 6, will shut down permanently Friday as the numbers of people getting vaccinated at the arena and concert venue have dwindled.
Arcand said more than 28,000 vaccine doses were injected into people’s arms at the clinic.
“I look at this as saying there’s systems here in the city of Saskatoon and in this province that always have taken care of Indigenous people,” Arcand said in an interview Thursday. “Now we’ve flipped that. We are an Indigenous organization that partnered with (the Saskatchewan Health Authority) and Indigenous Services Canada to be the front leader in the city as one