Doses given to Gespeg members in Kanesatake will be accounted for in COVID-19 vaccine shipments back home.
In what local leaders call a “gesture of inter-nation solidarity,” Kanesatake will vaccinate members of the Micmac Nation of Gespeg, a First Nations community more than 800 kilometres away.
About half of Gespeg community members live outside of the territory, which is located off the gulf of Saint-Lawrence.
Over the weekend, about 250 of them will be able to access their home community’s vaccine supply in Kanesatake, through a new dosage exchange program.
“It's very important, as a nation of First Nations people, that we stick together,” said Micmac Nation of Gespeg Chief Terry Shaw. “That's our strength, because we are on common ground.”
“I decided, okay, all their members living within our region, we would open up our infrastructure to vaccinate their people,” said Serge Otsi Simon, Grand Chief of the Kanien'kehá:ka (Mohawk) nation of Kanesatake northwest of Montreal.
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