Amanda Follett Hosgood and Moira Wyton, Local Journalism Initiative Some Indigenous peopleâs fear of the vaccine is not rooted in "conspiracy theory," says one researcher, but in "well-documented fact of Indigenous peopleâs treatment by the health-care system that is brutally unjust." Image Credit: THE CANADIAN PRESS/Andrew Vaughan-Pool February 22, 2021 - 6:00 AM Devin Sampare is clear that he’s not an anti-vaxxer. “My children got all the same vaccines I got as a kid,” he says. “I’m just very conscious about weighing risks, using discernment and making sure what I’m putting in is going to benefit me.”