by MBC News | Nov 27, 2015 | Current News
Vern Bellegarde, left, and Fred Starblanket pictured in 1985. Photo courtesy sicc.sk.ca He was known simply as “Mr. Speaker.” Fred Starblanket, the long-time speaker of the Federation of Saskatchewan Indian Nations Legislative Assembly passed away Friday...
by MBC News | Nov 27, 2015 | Current News
Saskatoon Police say a 33-year-old man has been charged with second-degree murder and offering an indignity to human remains, following the discovery of a body in a rural location northwest of the city. Police say the remains located on November 14 are those of Karina...
by MBC News | Nov 27, 2015 | Current News
Prince Albert’s 100 or so Red Cross volunteers got a well-deserved pat on the back on Thursday. Evacuations from the summer’s wildfires crisis taxed the organization. Almost 10,000 people went through Prince Albert for help through the Red Cross after the...
by MBC News | Nov 26, 2015 | Current News
Thursday’s release of a book that’s meant to help teachers tackle the difficult topic of residential schools is just the tip of the iceberg. A non-profit group called Facing History and Ourselves is reaching out to host workshops and offer strategies for...
by MBC News | Nov 26, 2015 | Current News
Left to right, Saskatchewan Indian Culture Centre president, Dorothy Myo, Gyasi Ross, a motivational speaker from the Blackfeet Nation, Zoe Hopkins, learned to speak her Mohawk language fluently five years ago. About five years ago, Zoe Hopkins decided to learn her...
by MBC News | Nov 26, 2015 | Current News
A first-degree murder case out of Ahtahkakoop took a surprising turn in Prince Albert Provincial Court on Thursday. Dakota Hilliard John Knife’s defense, legal aid lawyer Adam Masiowski, told a Prince Albert judge that the case will most likely end up being...
by MBC News | Nov 26, 2015 | Current News
A doctor in La Ronge has launched a petition to pressure the government to get more physicians working in the area. Dr. Sean Groves says doctors at La Ronge Medical Clinic are overworked and patients are not getting the care they deserve. He says the patient...
by MBC News | Nov 25, 2015 | Current News
The RCMP insists its officers aren’t above the law, and that includes in relation to the alcohol ban on Buffalo River Dene Nation. The RCMP recently found out that four of its off-duty members had been drinking at a house party in Dillon this May. Dillon is on...
by MBC News | Nov 25, 2015 | Current News
A Kinistin-Saulteaux man who had killed two people before he was 30 is still waiting for his sentence after a Melfort Court of Queen’s Bench hearing on Wednesday. Jordan Thomas Lumberjack had previously been convicted of second-degree murder by a twelve-person jury....
by MBC News | Nov 25, 2015 | Current News
When Gyasi Ross left the reserve for the city he left behind his traditional Blackfeet language. It wasn’t until he started working on songs with his powwow-singing cousin that he started to learn how to speak Blackfeet again. Ross was the keynote speaker at the...
