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Indigenous ceremonies allowed to continue amid COVID-19 restrictions: feds

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OTTAWA — Canada’s Indigenous services minister says banning sacred ceremonies is a “dark stain” on the country’s history and they will be allowed to continue despite restrictions put in place due to COVID-19. “Even in the face of a historic pandemic, Canada must not and will not prohibit these important practices,” Marc Miller said Thursday.

Concern that ceremonies would again be pushed underground surfaced after RCMP were dispatched to a Saskatchewan First Nation where people were holding a sun-dance ceremony last weekend.

A federal ban on Indigenous ceremonies and potlatchs came into place in 1884 and lasted until the 1950s. Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said Indigenous community leaders know what needs to be done to keep people safe. [

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