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Climate change could return a stolen lake to Indigenous people, a century later
Semá:th Xhotsa, or Sumas Lake, in Canada was the center of First Nations’ food system and culture, before European colonists drained it in 1924 to create farmland. Almost 100 years later, catastrophic flooding threatens to refill the lake and displace the …