As the end of the school year approaches and students across the province prepare for graduation, one district in particular is celebrating significant success. Indigenous students in the Sea to Sky school district had a graduation rate of 86.1 per cent in the 2016-17 school year — up from 35 per cent in 2009. That’s compared…

A hearing being held in Regina this week as part of the National Inquiry into Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls will focus on police practices and policies.  The hearing, starting today and running until Friday, will take place at the Hotel Saskatchewan. Hearings were also held in Saskatoon in November last year. Some family members…

A coroner’s inquest into the death of a Saskatoon man will resume in Saskatoon on Monday. Jordan Lafond, 21, died after a stolen truck he was in crashed on the outskirts of the city in 2016. The inquest was originally set to begin in March, but was postponed after a lawyer became sick. It’s still…

A wigwam is taking shape in a field at Abegweit First Nation in Scotchfort, P.E.I. — Junior Peter-Paul has arranged piles of spruce poles, birch and maple, roots and birch bark he’s carefully collected.  Peter-Paul, who’s well-known for his drumming at cultural events and sharing Mi’kmaq culture in Island classrooms, began making wigwams only a…

The city’s ongoing response to the recommendations of the Seven Youth Inquest will be before Thunder Bay city council on Monday. The inquest, which concluded in 2016, examined the deaths of seven Indigenous youth who died in Thunder Bay between November 2000 and May 2011: Jethro Anderson, 15 Curran Strang, 18 Robyn Harper, 19 Paul…

Imagine going to an event and finding an old photo you never knew existed, but the person in the picture is a close relative. Well for Wayne Goodwill, a 77-year-old Dakota man from the Standing Buffalo Dakota Nation in the Treaty 4 area of central Saskatchewan, that is exactly what happened. After attending the annual Treaty 4…