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Care homes, First Nations ready for innoculations
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Elders at Ochekwi Sipi Personal Care Home in Fisher River Cree Nation will get the Moderna COVID-19 vaccine Monday as doses are rolled out to select homes in Manitoba. (John Woods / The Canadian Press files)
Elders at Ochekwi Sipi Personal Care Home in Fisher River Cree Nation will be among the first long-term care residents in Manitoba to get the Moderna COVID-19 vaccine Monday as doses are rolled out to select homes in Manitoba.
Elders at Ochekwi Sipi Personal Care Home in Fisher River Cree Nation will be among the first long-term care residents in Manitoba to get the Moderna COVID-19 vaccine Monday as doses are rolled out to select homes in Manitoba.
WINNIPEG Hours after the first COVID-19 vaccines earmarked for First Nations communities arrived in Manitoba, the first doses have been administered. In a Facebook post made Thursday evening, David Monias, Chief of Cross Lake First Nation announced they had immunized their first person with the Moderna COVID-19 vaccine. The first dose was given to Coun. Mervin Garrick at 7:07 p.m. at the community’s nursing station.
(Video submitted by Chief David Monias) On Thursday, the province announced 5,300 doses of the Moderna COVID-19 vaccine were being shipped to all Manitoba First Nations. The Moderna vaccine was chosen due to the less robust storage requirements required compared to the Pfizer vaccine.
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An Indigenous-Filipino woman from Fisher River Cree Nation has been trying to address food security among Indigenous peoples through academia for two years now.
“Going through university and academia, I came to this realization of how torn I felt being an Indigenous and Filipino person going through Western academia,” said Taylor Wilson, a project coordinator at the Winnipeg Boldness Project.
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“I found myself struggling with my identity. At that time, I was trying to think about my health and taking care of myself when I began to see the big gaps in food security and food sovereignty from an Indigenous point of view.”
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Curtis Garson (left) and Richard Dumas give away boxes of pickerel to families in need, at the Canad Inns in Winnipeg on Thursday.
The vehicles were lined up Thursday behind the Canad Inns hotel at Polo Park, and the fish were flying out the door.
The vehicles were lined up Thursday behind the Canad Inns hotel at Polo Park, and the fish were flying out the door.
Volunteers from Dakota Ojibway Tribal Council and several other groups scooped up free boxes of filleted pickerel and other freshwater fish to load into waiting trunks, all along playfully teasing each other.