by Sam Campling | Dec 2, 2021 | Current News
A member of the Peter Ballantyne Cree Nation is the University of Saskatchewan’s new Indigenous Storyteller-in-Residence. Zoey Roy, a Cree, Dene and Métis poet who grew up in Saskatoon, has been working as an artist for 15 years. As Storyteller-in-Residence, Roy will...
by Sam Campling | Dec 1, 2021 | Current News
A member of the Peter Ballantyne Cree Nation is being featured in a national ad campaign for an Indigenous-owned makeup company. Zoey Roy, a Cree, Dene and Métis woman who grew up in Saskatoon, performed her spoken-word poem titled ‘Unsilent’ in Cheekbone...
by Sam Campling | Nov 30, 2021 | Current News
A Cree-Métis filmmaker from La Ronge is premiering her latest feature-length film in her hometown Friday. Night Raiders, a film by Danis Goulet, premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival in September. The film is set in a future post-civil war North...
by Sam Campling | Nov 29, 2021 | Current News
Students at Churchill Community Highschool in La Ronge had the opportunity to learn traditional Denesuline hand games last week. Hand games include two teams of four to six people. Each player gets an object, many times a coin, to try to hide in their hands. The...
by Sam Campling | Nov 24, 2021 | Current News
Lac La Ronge Indian Band youth from two northern communities worked together to write and record a song that was released Tuesday. Students from Keethanow Elementary School in Stanley Mission and Senator Myles Venne School in La Ronge wrote “Not Alone,”...
by Sam Campling | Nov 22, 2021 | Current News
Tri-community residents nervous to get the COVID-19 vaccine will be able to have a furry friend calm their anxieties at the La Ronge Hospital COVID-19 clinic this week. Torino, a non-shedding therapy dog who usually works at Children North, will be available on Friday...
by Sam Campling | Nov 17, 2021 | Current News
The Lac La Ronge Indian Band has partnered with La Ronge’s Scattered Site Outreach Program to open a temporary homeless shelter. The emergency shelter was opened Tuesday at the Band’s Kitsaki Hall and took in 22 clients over its first night. Chief Tammy Cook-Searson...
by Sam Campling | Nov 17, 2021 | Current News
A Lac La Ronge Indian Band corner store won a promotional contest and has donated its winnings to a local organization. The Keethanow Corner Store, run by the Keethanow Group of Businesses, won $2,500 in the contest put on by Old Dutch Chips and Pratt’s Fine Food. The...
by Sam Campling | Nov 12, 2021 | Current News
Marion Buller has been named the next chancellor at the University of Victoria. Buller, who is a member of the Mistawasis Nêhiyawak , a First Nation 70 km west of Prince Albert, has been a judge for 27 years and was the chief commissioner of the National Inquiry into...
by Sam Campling | Nov 12, 2021 | Current News
La Ronge, Air Ronge and the Lac La Ronge Indian band are a part of a University of Saskatchewan study on community dog management in communities without regular access to vets. The study, led by Western College of Veterinary Medicine small animal vet Jordan...
