by MBC News | Sep 12, 2013
A popular Saskatoon rock band is facing criticism after using an Aboriginal symbol in one of their promotional t-shirts. The Sheepdogs t-shirt features an Aboriginal man wearing a headdress with the words “Five Easy Pieces” underneath. Rob Innes, who teaches in the...
by MBC News | Sep 11, 2013
A vice-chief at the Federation of Saskatchewan Indian Nations says he hopes a new bilateral agreement with the provincial government will speed up implementation of a report on Indigenous education and employment. The joint task force report, which was released in...
by MBC News | Sep 11, 2013
Two University of Saskatchewan professors are the first Aboriginal scholars from the institution to be elected to the Royal Society of Canada. Sakej Henderson is a director at the Native Law Centre and Marie Battiste teaches at the College of Education. Battiste says...
by MBC News | Sep 11, 2013
All this week, students in a few northern Saskatchewan schools are getting to learn about some of the environmental impacts on their local watersheds. From Monday to Friday, members of the Saskatchewan Environmental Society are visiting high schools in La Ronge,...
by MBC News | Sep 10, 2013
The Saskatoon Food Bank and St. Mary’s Community School received about 20,000 pounds worth of produce Tuesday thanks to the Saskatoon Correctional Centre’s Urban Camp. The vegetables were grown in the urban camp’s Garden of Hope by both inmates and staff. Seeds,...
by MBC News | Sep 10, 2013
NDP MP Charlie Angus was so moved by a recent book he read on the historical mistreatment by government of Indigenous people living on the prairies that he wrote a song about it. The book is Clearing the Plains: Disease, Politics, and the Loss of Aboriginal Life by...
