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John Haugen had to leave behind pieces of his history when the wildfire arrived. They were embedded in a collection of baskets that belonged to him and to his mother, Nlaka’pamux people and members of Lytton First Nation, a community that stretches across 56 reserves near the confluence of the powerful Fraser and Thompson rivers in British Columbia. Haugen did not have enough time to grab them before flames incinerated his home in late June.