by MBC News | Aug 27, 2014
Nominations are officially open for the 2014 Annual Métis Awards which take place next month in Regina. The awards, which are hosted by the Wiichihiwayshinawn Foundation, will take place Sept. 27 at Queensbury Convention Centre. As part of the event, Métis people will...
by MBC News | Aug 26, 2014
A Cree elder from the Canoe Lake Cree Nation began a 400-kilometre walk Tuesday as part of a plan to pressure the Harper government to call a national inquiry into missing and murdered Aboriginal women. Emil Bell began his trek from the Beauval to Saskatoon shortly...
by MBC News | Aug 26, 2014
The 2014 Woodland Cree gathering kicked off in La Ronge Tuesday morning with a commemoration ceremony for residential school survivors. A stone monument was unveiled at the site of two Indian residential schools which were located on land now owned by the Lac La Ronge...
by MBC News | Aug 26, 2014
Prince Albert RCMP continue to search for a missing woman in the Sturgeon Lake area. Police say 34-year-old Mavis Bird was last seen on Aug. 21. Bird is described as of Aboriginal descent, 5’ 3” tall with brown hair and brown eyes. Police believe she may be in and...
by MBC News | Aug 26, 2014
Police have apprehended a 29-year-old female murder suspect who went missing earlier this month. Regina police arrested Brianna Wesaquate on Tuesday morning. She is accused of second-degree murder in the October 2013 death of Cassandra Joan Desjarlais. Wesaquate was...
by MBC News | Aug 26, 2014
A 4,000-year-old Aboriginal spiritual site has been rediscovered nearly 50 years after it was submerged in water. The 400 tonne rock, called Mistasiniy (Cree) or Buffalo Child Stone, was blown up by the federal government in 1966. After an arduous yearlong search,...
by MBC News | Aug 25, 2014
A Cree elder from northern Saskatchewan will begin a 400-kilometre walk tomorrow in an effort to get a national inquiry into missing and murdered Indigenous women. Emil Bell might be best known for going on a hunger strike last year in support of Attawapiskat First...
by MBC News | Aug 25, 2014
After two years of negotiations, the northern community of Southend and uranium mining company Cameco formally signed a ten-year business development agreement Monday. The agreement has a number of goals including increasing local participation in the industry,...
by MBC News | Aug 25, 2014
Search and rescue officials are relieved a weekend operation had a happy ending after an elderly woman went missing in the bush. Meadow Lake RCMP say 89-year-old Alice Gobert was located after being reported missing after a berry-picking trip Saturday evening. A...
by MBC News | Aug 25, 2014
RCMP continue to investigate a fatal single vehicle accident near the Sturgeon Lake First Nation. The crash happened early Sunday morning and has claimed one life and seriously injured two other people. Mounties say a 24-year-old local man was declared dead at the...
