Updated with response from the Twin Rivers Hockey League. For the past few years, the Willow Cree Chiefs proved to be a competitive force in the Twin Rivers Hockey League. The Chiefs took over the league spot from the Warman Wildcats in 2022. The team has made the...
On Thursday evening, the Saskatchewan Public Safety Agency (SPSA) imposed a provincial fire ban for much of northern Saskatchewan. The organization says the current spring conditions, high fire activity, and fire risk across the north led to the fire ban. The ban...
Indigenous educators and community members from Indigenous communities across Saskatchewan have been meeting in Saskatoon this week to discuss language revitalization. The Indigenous Languages Summit is taking place at the University of Saskatchewan. Multiple days...
The chief of the Saskatoon Tribal Council says he is disappointed the University of Saskatchewan is choosing to demolish an old seminary on campus. The university is demolishing the Lutheran Theological Seminary Building, as it has been vacant for the past 5 years....
A disgraced Cree medicine man has been sentenced to 8 years in federal prison for several counts of sexual assault. Cecil Wolfe plead guilty in February to assaulting 12 different women over a 9 year period while working as a traditional healer or medicine man. The...
The Chief of the Saskatoon Tribal Council is speaking out after remarks by a Saskatoon City Councilor at this week’s SUMA convention. At the convention in Saskatoon on Thursday, Councilor Robert Pearce called on Premier Scott Moe to remove the STC as operator of...
A Metis group in southern Saskatchewan is asking a nearby Rural Municipality to hand over a Metis Red River cart. The Lestock Metis Local is asking the Rural Municipality of Kellross to hand over the cart, which has ties to Metis heritage. “It comes from this land,...
A possibly precedent setting trial on Métis hunting rights is set to begin in Meadow Lake on Monday. The crux of the case will be questions around whether Métis harvesting rights can carry to jurisdictions beyond their home territory. Oliver Poitras and Warren Boyer...
The first cohort of northern students in the Dziret’Ai Pilot Training Program have successfully completed Ground School and have now advanced to flight training. Last summer, 105 people applied for the program with 15 chosen from among those applications. Now...
Educators from the Prince Albert Grand Council are looking at ways to Indigenize the provincial school curriculum for students. The work they are doing is to take the curriculum from the provincial government and redesign it to better fit Indigenous ways of knowing....
