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By Jeremy Appel, Local Journalism Initiative Reporter, Alberta Native News Samuel Bird\u2019s mother says she wants people to remember her son for the way he lived, not how he is believed to have died. \u201cI want people to remember Samuel not as a headline, not as a case file, but as a loved son, a brother, a cousin and a friend. His laughter, his spirit and his love are what define him, not the circumstances of his disappearance,\u201d Alanna Bird said at an Oct. 1 news conference with the Edmonton Police Service (EPS). Four months to the day the 14-year-old Indigenous Edmontonian went missing and a day after National Day for Truth and Reconciliation, police announced that Bird is suspected to have been a homicide victim. Bird\u2019s Cree name is… <\/p>\n

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By Jeremy Appel, Local Journalism Initiative Reporter, Alberta Native News Samuel Bird\u2019s mother says she wants people to remember her son for the way he lived, not how he is believed to have died. \u201cI want people to remember Samuel not as a headline, not as a case file, but as a loved son, a brother, a cousin and a friend. His laughter, his spirit and his love are what define him, not the circumstances of his disappearance,\u201d Alanna Bird said at an Oct. 1 news conference with the Edmonton Police Service (EPS). Four months to the day the 14-year-old Indigenous Edmontonian went missing and a day after National Day for Truth and Reconciliation, police announced that Bird is suspected to have been a homicide victim. Bird\u2019s Cree name is... <\/p>\n

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