By: Shari Narine, Local Journalism Initiative Reporter, Windspeaker.com Saskatchewan Treaty Commissioner Mary Musqua-Culbertson didn’t mince words when she spoke to members of the Senate Committee on Indigenous Peoples Oct. 25 about the difficulty in accessing...
By Kimiya Shokoohi There have been times when birth support worker Keara Laverty has seen an Indigenous woman enter the Jim Pattison Children’s Hospital in Saskatoon, alone and ready to give birth. It’s especially in moments such as those that Laverty, who is Métis,...
By Kimiya Shokoohi When Thunder Farms started to make gains as a fully Indigenous-owned farm northwest of Battleford, Sask. three years ago, limited funding options were available. Communications and training resources are essential for grant applications to access...
(Photo of Jean LeChance. Courtesy of Prince Albert Police) Theron Morin is working on a memorial bench to honour his mother, whose death over 30 years ago remains an unsolved homicide. Police found the body of 29-year-old Jean LaChance south of the Victoria Hospital...
RCMP said it has arrested one person in connection to a month-long investigation into an alleged assault and attempted extortion of a man on the Sturgeon Lake First Nation. Mounties accuse Ian Felix, Jared Naytowhow and Brianna Forest in the September 19 incident,...
Michael Oleksyn/Daily Herald Graduates celebrated on stage at Plaza 88 near the conclusion of the Fall Graduation Celebration for the First Nations University of Canada on Saturday evening. Michael Oleksyn, Local Journalism Initiative Reporter The Prince Albert Campus...
Leadership from Red Pheasant Cree nation and the City of North Battleford break ground on new development. SUPPLIED PHOTO By: Kimiya Shokoohi, The StarPhoenix A Saskatchewan First Nation is about to make a new contribution to urban development in one of the province’s...
The Federation of Sovereign Indigenous Nations and the University of Saskatchewan’s College of Law have signed a memorandum of understanding to advance legal reforms on child welfare in the province. “In the last three years in Saskatchewan provincial courts,...
Manitoba Métis Federation (MMF) President David Chartrand, seen here, says MMF has won a “clear and overwhelming” legal victory after a judge ordered the Métis National Council (MNC) to pay more than $200,000 of MMF’s legal costs, relating to an ongoing legal battle...
Northlands College Photo A look inside the new Northlands College Metaverse Campus. Michael Oleksyn, Local Journalism Initiative Reporter Northlands College, which has physical campuses in La Ronge, Creighton, Air Ronge and Buffalo Narrows has added another one...
