The FSIN says there are roughly 150 more Grade 12 graduates of on-reserve schools in the province this year than last year.
For the past two years, the FSIN Education office has been able to track the number of Grade 12 graduates from each on-reserve school because it has been ordering replica treaty medals for the grads.
Vice Chief Bobby Cameron says there are 750 First Nations high school graduates this year:
“It’s saying to the younger generation, it’s saying to the government that we are practicing and implementing our inherent and treaty right to education by finishing our Grade 12. And then we are going to go to university or other post-secondary schools to complete our inherent and treaty right to education.”
Cameron says there were just under 600 students who graduated high school on Saskatchewan First Nations last year.