Canada natives mourn loss of hunting, fishing in Fort McMurray fires

Canada natives mourn loss of hunting, fishing in Fort McMurray fires Lac La Biche, Canada (AFP) May 10, 2016 - Chipewyan native Elmer McDonald putters around his trailer in a Lac La Biche parking lot and plays his fiddle since being evacuated as the Fort McMurray wildfires closed in on his tribal home late Sunday. Several indigenous communities had taken in residents of the neighboring Canadian oil city forced to flee raging fires that have consumed more than 161,000 hectares of boreal forests. B ... more

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