The Federation of Sovereign Indigenous Nations will be extending an invite to King Charles III to visit Canada, specifically Saskatchewan.
The FSIN is sending an invitation to the King to attend the Treaty 6 150th anniversary celebration next year.
FSIN Chief Bobby Cameron says it is a significant invitation.
“Our ancestors signed Treaty with the British Crown,” said Cameron. “So King Charles ancestors and our ancestors signed Treaty to guarantee that we would have inherent rights, treaty rights, that we as First Nation people will continue to exercise the way we lived off the land.”
The FSIN Chief also says it is important for the King to attend because treaties were signed with the crown.
“Many governments, for many decades, have slowly eroded and impacted our treaty rights,” he said. “But we’re still here. We’re still maintaining our treaty position. And those are of international law, those documents. They’re not federal law. They’re not provincial law. They are international law.
According to Cameron, an invitation was sent to the Crown for last year’s Treaty 4 celebration, but they didn’t receive a response. He is hopeful things will be different this time.
“Well, this time around we’re really starting well in advance. We’re getting political support from the AFN here at the region and even from different groups to make sure that, to try and make sure that the King Charles visit does happen at Treaty 6.”
The Chiefs in the assembly passed the resolution to extend the invitation unanimously at the FSIN assembly in Yorkton this week.