TROUT LAKE, ALBERTA, CANADA- Three northern Alberta First Nations have signed an agreement with the federal and provincial governments to be responsible for their own child welfare systems.   The chiefs of Loon River First Nation, Lubicon First Nation and Peerless Trout First Nation gathered Tuesday with members of their communities and representatives of the federal and provincial governments to celebrate the agreement.   “Today there is hope, hope that we can begin to truly heal intergenerational trauma that has impacted our children for too long,” said Chief Gilbert Okemow of Peerless Trout First Nation, which is about 500 kilometres north of Edmonton.   “The current child welfare system just wasn’t designed for the First Nations peoples and it has caused too many children to be removed from their homes,

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