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Return to the land: COVID-19 lockdown shows importance of food traditions in northwest Saskatchewan

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Editor’s note: The COVID-19 outbreak in northwest Saskatchewan has exposed weaknesses in the region’s fragile food system. In this three-part series, Global News will share what some local leaders, businesses and residents have said about how a month in lockdown without access to southern stores has changed how they think about feeding their communities and their families.

This is part 3. Read parts 1 and 2 here.Knowing it was just a matter of time before the novel coronavirus presented in northwest Saskatchewan, a group of Dene hunters and trappers from English River First Nation began gathering wild meat in March.Although there were no COVID-19 cases being reported in the region, “we got on it right away,” said band member Lisa Janvier,.

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