ABSTRACT
The author is a Woodland Cree born and raised in northern Saskatchewan. She continues to live in the north where she currently works as a faculty member for the Gabriel Dumont Institute with the Northern Saskatchewan Indigenous Teacher Education Program. She was living and working in Prince Albert during the teacher-months and would commute the two-and-a-half-hour drive back to La Ronge on weekends. The forest fires in the northern region had summer plans of their own—they were on a collision course with humanity. Living in a fire season paradigm became a state of mind and although humanity can never really control the outcomes and may be able to control physical preparedness, the difficulty lies in the social, emotional, and spiritual response. The author just prayed that the rain comes the next day as predicted so that she should not have to move once again from Point A to Point B.
