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More than 150 students from the University of Saskatchewan, First Nations University of Canada and Saskatchewan Indian Institute of Technologies gathered together in the frosty morning hours of Nov. 19 to take part in a march for justice.
Students from the three schools walked to the Saskatoon Police Service building to show their support for Stonechild Inquiry Chief…
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Tracking down Mathew Strongeagle is pretty hard.
Then again, when you're a high school student at Scott Collegiate and you're moving to a new home and helping to celebrate your parents' anniversary, and you're acting in three different television shows in two provinces, you're a hard guy to pin down.
During the month of October, the 18-year-old member of Key First…
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The Regina Public School Division will soon create an Elders advisory council to advise and assist elected trustees.
The council, which is expected to be up and running by the end of December, will have two roles within the school system. The Elders will assist teachers and principals with in-class instruction of students, and will also work with the board to develop a…
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Ralph Morin is planning to make some big changes at the Saskatchewan Indian Cultural Centre (SICC).
Over the summer, Morin, who hails from Big River First Nation, was appointed as the SICC's new president. He brings to the position a background in education, having worked as a teacher, principal and administrator.
Morin, who has a master's degree in educational…
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Most of Regina's Aboriginal people face housing shortages and housing conditions little better than the substandard homes on treaty land, says a recently-released report.
More Than Bricks and Mortar: The Consequences of Poor Housing Conditions in Regina's Aboriginal Community, was prepared by the Saskatchewan Institute of Public Policy, an independent, non-profit, non-…
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According to Saskatchewan Health, alcohol and drug addiction among the province's youth is double the national average. And, according to a 2001 report, Aboriginal women made up two-thirds of substance abusers in Saskatchewan despite the fact that Aboriginal people made up only nine per cent of the entire provincial population. Those startling statistics are what make centres…
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The Metis Addictions Council of Saskatchewan Inc. (MACSI) has reason to celebrate.
As it does each year, MACSI is planning to celebrate National Addictions Awareness Week, being held this year from Nov. 14 to 20. But this year the organization, which provides alcohol and drug recovery programs to Metis and off-reserve First Nation people in Saskatchewan, will also be…
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The Saskatchewan government is continuing to withhold funding to the Metis Nation-Saskatchewan (MNS) and is refusing to recognize the MNS provincial council that was sworn into office on Oct. 7 after a review conducted by former provincial chief electoral officer Keith Lampard found a number of problems with the way the group ran its May 26 election.
With some of the…
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A school dispute has divided the Piapot First Nation and, as of press time, it's also divided the school.
Four weeks after demonstrators began a sit-in to protest the curriculum at Payepot school, about 100 band members-parents of students as well as teachers-marched into the school to confront those demonstrators.
On Nov. 8 a group of band members who want the…
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Saskatchewan won't be playing host to the North American Indigenous Games (NAIG) in 2008-that honour will go to the Cowichan First Nation on Vancouver Island.
The Saskatchewan effort to secure the games was a partnership between the Federation of Saskatchewan Indian Nations (FSIN) and the Metis Nation-Saskatchewan and had the support of the City of Regina and the…
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The Saskatchewan Liquor and Gaming Authority has put a conditional stamp of approval on the File Hills Qu'Appelle Tribal Council's (FHQTC) plans to build a $22.7 million casino, hotel and performing arts centre in Swift Current.
The new casino will be owned by the FHQTC but operated by the Saskatchewan Indian Gaming Authority (SIGA), bringing the number of SIGA-run casinos…
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When former Saskatoon Police Chief Dave Scott held a press conference in February of 2000 to announce an investigation into allegations that police officers were driving Aboriginal men out of the city and dropping them off in freezing temperatures, Saskatoon film-maker Tasha Hubbard wasn't sure what would come of it, but decided to send a crew out to film the proceedings. That…
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It has been a long, painful struggle for Jason Roy, but he says it was worth it.
On Nov. 5, Roy, his mother Mary and father Lawrence, along with Stella Bignell, Neil Stonechild's mother,were presented with an Elders Eagle Feather Award, a new award created by Elder Walter Linklater as a way to honour the families and recognize what they had been through during the inquiry…
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The Saskatchewan government is continuing to withhold funding to the Metis Nation-Saskatchewan (MNS) and is refusing to recognize the MNS provincial council that was sworn into office on Oct. 7 after a review conducted by former provincial chief electoral officer Keith Lampard found a number of problems with the way the group ran its May 26 election.
With some of the…
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Former members of the executive committee of the Metis Addictions Council of Saskatchewan Inc. (MACSI) misspent thousands of dollars in provincial funding that should have went to operation of the organization, says a report by Saskatchewan's provincial auditor.
The report, prepared by Fred Wendel and released by the province Oct. 29, states that between June 2001 and…