ʔaq'am

Definitions

Noun. [B1]

Examples

“Cheryl Casimer, chief of ʔaq'am, a Ktunaxa community about 500 kilometres east of Vancouver, and a political executive with the First Nations Summit in B.C., said Canada's reasoning "doesn't make⟳ any sense⟳."”

“Wildfire officials said Wednesday that the St. Mary’s River fire, which is burning primarily on ʔaq’am reserve⟳ land⟳ about 10 kilometres northeast of the East Kootenay community, had grown to 850 hectares in size.”

“ʔaq’am is a member community of the Ktunaxa Nation, an Indigenous people whose traditional territory lies in the Kootenay region of southeastern B.C. and who historically used fire to manage⟳ the landscape. When ʔaq’am elder Marty Williams opened the day’s event with a prayer, he began by telling the assembled crowd that although the planning for the prescribed burn had taken place⟳ over the previous five years, the community had been talking about re-introducing fire to its land⟳ management regime for decades.”

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