…At least once a week, students in Stanley Mission, Sask., come to Nihithow Askiy Cultural Education Camp in the woods to learn the Cree language along with land-based ways of living including hunting, gathering and tool-making. But wildfires have already forced those lessons to change. “We didn’t do rabbit snaring this year. We’ll let them reproduce,” said land-based teacher Sylvia McKenzie. “We used to see lots of rabbit tracks out here, but this year not so much due to the fire.” This year has officially seen Canada’s worst fire season on record. More than 8 million hectares have burned so far. Much of that land sustains treaty rights such as hunting, gathering and cultural practices. Some members of Indigenous communities worry that, if nothing changes soon, the land and traditional ways of life will suffer.