First Nations

Supports for Canoe Lake student athletes

Students at Canoe Lake Miksiw School will be heading into 2020 with some new sports equipment. The early Christmas gifts are expected to touch down in the community this week thanks to the Saskatoon-b...

Dec 16, 2019 Students from Canoe Lake Miksiw school pose with Joel Pedersen of Fitness 2J2 (centre, kneeling). (Facebook/Fitness 2J2)

Makwa Sahgaiehcan School warmed by Christmas Cards

Students and staff at Makwa Sahgaiehcan School have been inundated with thousands of Christmas cards filled with messages of hope and support in response to the youth crisis. Some of the messages are ...

Dec 12, 2019 Students at Makwa Sahgaiehcan School received thousands of Christmas Cards of Hope from all over the world.(Nicole Reis/meadowlakeNOW Staff)

Major fur trade event set for Prince Albert

Furs from many of the hundreds of trappers across the North will head to market in Prince Albert on Saturday for the Northern Saskatchewan Trappers Association (NSTA) Fur Table. Organizers of the even...

Dec 12, 2019 An image of fur being assessed and valued for market. (NSTA Facebook)

Flying Dust First Nation holding its first "Safe Talk"

Flying Dust First Nation will host its first Safe Talk in the coming days. Patricia Main is a First Nation prevention worker and will be administering the Safe Talk, a peer to peer suicide prevention ...

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Amendments to jury legislation excludes First Nation elected officials

Recent amendments to provincial legislation is excluding chiefs and council members from First Nations bands from serving as jurors.The province said in a press release the move is to ensure consisten...

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Youth Suicide Prevention Strategy on its way to First Nations

Chiefs from Indigenous communities in the region were returning home Wednesday from The Assembly of First Nations (AFN) and Special Chiefs Assembly held this week in Ottawa. Barry Matsuing Chalifoux, ...

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Action plan on missing, murdered Indigenous women coming by June: Bennett

OTTAWA - Crown-Indigenous Relations Minister Carolyn Bennett says the federal government will release by June 2020 its plan to respond to the final report of the inquiry into missing an...

Dec 04, 2019

Arson responsible for Cumberland House band office fire: Chief Rene Chaboyer

Cumberland House Cree Nation Chief Rene Chaboyer stated the fire that destroyed the local band office this morning was an act of arson."RCMP have confirmed arson, so we're just trying to get our emplo...

Dec 02, 2019 Chief Rene Chaboyer stated arson was responsible for the fire. (Prince Albert Grand Council)

Local support worker breaks barriers for Indigenous women and mothers

A local woman is breaking barriers as a recent graduate from the Indigenous Birth Support Worker Program. Dalanie Wahobin grew up in Meadow Lake and Waterhen Lake. She is among the first Indigenous wo...

Nov 29, 2019 Dalanie Wahobin, 28, is among the first to graduate from the Indigenous Birth Support Worker Program offered at the Gabriel Dumont Institute in October 2019. (submitted photo/ Dalanie Wahobin)

Suicide among youth appears to be spreading among Meadow Lake First Nations

The suicide crisis at Makwa Sahgaiehcan First Nation is not only deepening, but spreading. The band's CEO Barry Chalifoux said since the suicide death on Nov. 22, five more youth are in the hospital a...

Nov 26, 2019 (Derek Cornet/larongeNOW Staff)