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  TORONTO -- This intricate map took months to put together, a project fuelled by pandemic boredom and a willingness from dozens of artists to come together and pour themselves into a millennia-old practice. Since March 2020, Indigenous artists from across the U.S. and Canada have been using beading and stitching techniques to create a beaded patchwork of a map of provinces, territories and U.S. states which make up North America, or Turtle Island as it’s known to many Indigenous people. People beaded their sections and sent in high-quality photos to CeeJay Johnson, a Dakota and Tlingi...

“The washeteria is on fire!” he burst out when his sister’s door opened.  Kristy had been cooking a turkey for her daughter's birthday, but a threat to the village's only source of treated drinking water spurred her to action. She threw on her dark purple coat. Nelson dropped the diced moose meat with steamed jasmine rice he had been eating and ran outside. It was Jan. 16, around 11 a.m. With no running water to the homes in Tuluksak, Alaska, most residents relied on the water piped to the village's laundry building, which also housed the water treatment plant. Now, thick smoke poured...