Tag Archives: First Nations
New Indigenous History Researcher hired at Historical Museum
Over the next year the Prince Albert Historical Society will be improving and expanding on the Indigenous History Room at the Historical Museum.The expansion started with a recent hire of a full-time ...
Jun 30, 2021
Indigenous leaders reflect on past, present
The painful history of Residential Schools in Canada is ever-so present for the indigenous community, while there's hope that the stories of the past month can finally create change.During the Pipe Ce...
Jun 30, 2021
Community mourns at PAGC vigil; call for cancellation of Canada Day celebrations.
On a hot summer's evening in Prince Albert there were some tears as various speakers took to the lecturn for an emotional vigil hosted by the Prince Albert Grand Council.The somber occasion Tuesday ou...
Jun 29, 2021
Woman with ties to Prince Albert reported missing
UPDATE: As of 3:10 p.m. June 30, the RCMP have reported Sutherland has been located safe.-Saskatchewan RCMP asking for help locating a woman, who was last seen early Friday afternoon, leaving a reside...
Jun 29, 2021
Candlelight vigil set for P.A. this evening
The latest act of remembrance on behalf of those who died in Canada's Indian Residential School system will come much closer to home this evening.The Prince Albert Grand Council (PAGC) will host a can...
Jun 29, 2021
Prayer ceremony given for lost children of Delmas residential school
Indigenous families shared an afternoon of prayer and solidarity Monday afternoon at Delmas, honouring the lives of those who lived and died in the time of residential schools.Nearly 150 people attend...
Jun 28, 2021
Two Carlton art students send their love to residential school survivors, and those that didn't come home
All the recent findings of gravesites at residential schools across Canada have sparked many different emotions. For Mikayla Thomas and Elijah Waditaka, they wanted to offer up perhaps the most import...
Jun 28, 2021
Unmarked graves at Cowessess First Nation honoured during vigil
Solar lights twinkled Saturday evening next to 751 unmarked graves near the site of a former residential school at the Cowessess First Nation.Mann Northway GM in Prince Albert donated the lights in pa...
Jun 27, 2021
‘Every day was hell on earth’: Marieval survivor shares his story
For Marieval Indian Residential School survivor Robert Kakakaway, every day at the school was a nightmare."From Day 1 until my final day there on June 30, 1966, every day was hell on earth, that's wha...
Jun 26, 2021
Elder Liz Settee reflects on experience educating students
At the Saskatchewan Rivers Public School Division (SRPSD) board meeting on Monday, which also happened to be National Indigenous Peoples Day, the board reviewed all the division's efforts during the s...
Jun 25, 2021
