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https://theturtleislandnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/09/Today-in-History-Header_web.jpg1024600Oct 26 In 1988, two grey whales were freed by a Russian icebreaker in Barrow, Alaska. They were assisted by Inuit using chainsaws to cut the ice as the world looked on. A third trapped whale died before the rescue. In 2004, a Saskatchewan public inquiry found that aboriginal teenager Neil Stonechild, who froze to death in a snowy field on Saskatoon’s outskirts nearly 14 years earlier, was in police custody just before he died and that investigators closed the case In 2021, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau gave his cabinet a major overhaul — dropping Harjit Sajjan from defence, Carolyn Bennett from Crown-Indigenous relations, Marc Garneau from global affairs and Patty Hajdu from health. In 2021, Carolyn Bennett was shuffled out as minister of Crown-Indigenous relations. First Nations leaders had