Very little data on Metis and not a lot on Inuit. #IndigenousDRR

Our communities are in the front line of climate change. In any given disaster, Indigenous communities will be more impacted than non-Indigenous communities, and their recovery will be slower and less effective. https://scholar.google.co.nz/citations?view_op=view_citation&hl=en&user=rftQHwUAAAAJ&cstart=20&pagesize=80&citation_for_view=rftQHwUAAAAJ:sSrBHYA8nusC

Canada’s AG reported that Indigenous Services Canada was failing to provide Indigenous communities with adequate resources to deal with climate disasters... https://grist.org/global-indigenous-affairs-desk/underfunded-understaffed-canadas-indigenous-services-agency-is-failing-to-protect-first-nations/

The negative impacts to their health and wellbeing are often overwhelming. #Sovereignty is the secret sauce to ensuring their empowerment into a risky future. #IndigenousDRR

Indigenous Canandians are more liekly to have to evacuate in the face of disaster, and many are away from their homes and communities for extended periods of time, weeks, months and in some cases years.

Little Red River Cree Nation's 3,700 residents have evacuated the community according to Chief Conroy Sewepagaham.