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    1 year ago

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    A horn blares and the crowd cheers as hooves beat the ground, producing plumes of dust that hang in the air long after the horses rush past.

    Darryl Burns calmly sits on a nearby aluminum bench, his eyes tracking every rotation of the wheels on his grandson’s cart.

    One year after Canada’s worst mass stabbing, Burns and other members of James Smith Cree Nation say addictions, violence, grief and trauma continue to pervade their community.

    “This is complex trauma at its finest, and it has all these intricacies,” says Glenda Watson, a contracted therapist from Ahtahkakoop Cree Nation who has worked with James Smith families since the week of the stabbings.

    Health officials with James Smith say they worked with nearby community partners in the aftermath to check on survivors in other cities, but Head says no one visited her brother.

    As painful as the last year has been, Darryl Burns says he’s seen a shift in James Smith Cree Nation as younger people embrace their identities and histories with ceremony.


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