"ʔaq'am" meaning in English

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          "text": "Cheryl Casimer, chief of ʔaq'am, a Ktunaxa community about 500 kilometres east of Vancouver, and a political executive with the First Nations Summit in B.C., said Canada's reasoning \"doesn't make any sense.\"",
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          "text": "Wildfire officials said Wednesday that the St. Mary’s River fire, which is burning primarily on ʔaq’am reserve land about 10 kilometres northeast of the East Kootenay community, had grown to 850 hectares in size.",
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          "text": "ʔaq’am is a member community of the Ktunaxa Nation, an Indigenous people whose traditional territory lies in the Kootenay region of southeastern B.C. and who historically used fire to manage the landscape.\nWhen ʔaq’am elder Marty Williams opened the day’s event with a prayer, he began by telling the assembled crowd that although the planning for the prescribed burn had taken place over the previous five years, the community had been talking about re-introducing fire to its land management regime for decades.",
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