by MBC News | Dec 13, 2011 | Current News
Former Prince Albert Indian Residential School students are being asked to dig out their old yearbooks. Prince Albert Cree genealogist Blanche Cowley-Head is looking for them. She says they can help lawyers settle Indian residential school survivors’ claims,...
by MBC News | Dec 13, 2011 | Current News
An Alberta energy company continues to look for oil and gas on two Saskatchewan reserves. Sundance Energy Corporation is drilling exploration wells on the Muskowekwan and Ochapowace First Nations. Company president Jeffrey Standen says other developments are already...
by MBC News | Dec 13, 2011 | Current News
The Battlefords Agency Tribal Chiefs and the United Way have provided funds for a temporary homeless shelter in the Battlefords. But that funding runs out January 21st — so organizers are hoping someone else will donate money to keep it open well into spring....
by MBC News | Dec 12, 2011 | Current News
Dates have been set to hold a new inquest into the death of a northern man. The original inquest into the death of 38 year-old Harry Haineault halted last year after new evidence surfaced during the case. The brother of the deceased man, who was shot by an RCMP...
by MBC News | Dec 12, 2011 | Current News
A Committee is coming together in Southern Saskatchewan to develop a Treaty 4 Heritage and Interpretive Centre. Indigenous Studies Professor Blair Stonechild is on the committee and says the history of Treaty 4 is not well known. He explains the committee intends to...
by MBC News | Dec 9, 2011 | Current News
A life sentence has been given to a man charged in the fatal shooting of a resident in La Loche last year. Richie Herman pleaded guilty on Friday to a charge of second-degree murder. He was arrested after 29-year-old Mathew St. Pierre was gunned down in La Loche on...
by MBC News | Dec 9, 2011 | Current News
The RCMP’s Historical Case Unit is reviewing the unsolved murder of an Onion Lake woman which dates back to June, 2007. The body of 48-year-old Jeanette Chief was found by a fisherman in a small body of water north of Lloydminster. Chief had last been seen...
by MBC News | Dec 9, 2011 | Current News
A northern Saskatchewan chief is weighing in on a new piece of legislation introduced in Parliament this week. The First Nations Election Act is designed to provide bands with stronger governments. Among other things, it stipulates that First Nations who run their...
by MBC News | Dec 9, 2011 | Current News
The Federation of Saskatchewan Indian Nations will be honouring its “founding fathers” this evening. A gala celebration with musical guest Buffy Sainte-Marie at Saskatoon’s Prairieland Park will mark the FSIN’s 65th Anniversary celebrations. In...
by MBC News | Dec 9, 2011 | Current News
Getting to school will be cheaper for almost 2,700 Aboriginal post-secondary students in Saskatoon next month. Bus passes modelled on the University of Saskatchewan passes will be available at the Saskatchewan Indian Institute of Technologies and the First Nations...
