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Youth Climate / Treaty 4 Gathering

September 11, 2024

WHEN IT COMES TO CLIMATE CHANGE – IT’S SAFE TO SAY THAT MOST PEOPLE AGREE IT IS A REAL ISSUE AND ONE THAT SOCIETY MUST ADDRESS.

THAT TOPIC WAS FRONT AND CENTRE AT A TREATY GATHERING IN THE QU’APPELLE VALLEY THIS WEEK.

FIRST NATIONS UNIVERSITY STUDENT INTERN REPORTER, DESIRAYE NONAME EXPLAINS MORE IN THIS STORY.

Cowessess Youth Conference

September 3, 2024

THOUSANDS OF STUDENTS ACCROSS CANADA ARE BACK IN CLASS – GETTING A SWING OF THINGS SO TO SPEAK.

BUT LAST WEEK IN REGINA , MORE THAN ONE HUDRED HIGH SCHOOL AND UNIVERSITY STUDENTS GOT A HEAD START ON WHAT THEY CAN EXPECT IN THE YEARS AHEAD.

FIRST NATIONS UNIVERSITY STUDENT INTERN DESIRAYE NONAME WAS THERE TOO, AND FILED THIS STORY FOR APTN NEWS.

Michael Laliberte Story

August 21, 2024

MIKE LALIBERETE COULD BE CALLED A ‘FIXTURE’ ON THE POWWOW TRAIL. EVERYONE KNEW HIM AND SADLY, HE PASSED AWAY EARLIER THIS WEEK.

HE LEAVES A GREAT VOID…AND STORIES ABOUT HIM ARE BEING SHARED BY MANY.

MIKE LIVED ON FISHING LAKE FIRST NATION IN SASKATCHEWAN BUT AS NELSON BIRD REPORTS, HIS HOME…WAS WHEREVER HE WAS ABLE TO SHARE INDIGENOUS CULTURE.

Cumberland House 250

August 19, 2024

ON JULY FIRST CANADA CELEBRATED ITS 157TH YEAR OF EXISTENCE UNDER THAT NAME….BUT WE ALL KNOW THAT INDIGENOUS PEOPLE WERE HERE LONG BEFORE THAT….AS WELL AS SEVERAL SETTLER COMMUNITIES.

AMONG THEM – CUMBERLAND HOUSE IN SASKATCHEWAN WHICH VERY RECENTLY COMMEMORATED IT’S TWO-HUNDRED- AND- FIFTIETH ANNIVERSAY.

FIRST NATION UNIVERSITY JOURNALISM STUDENT INTERN RANDI LAROCQUE WAS THERE TOO AND FILED THIS STORY.

CFNU Nadya Story

August 14, 2024

On a medicine wheel, the colour red represents indigenous people… and red also signifies the connection to ancestral bloodlines.

Now, imagine an art exhibit that combines the colour red, a piece of furniture… and indigenous people.

It is a reality created by a professional Anishinaabe photographer Nadia Kwandibens, and her work is on display in Regina.

Amanda Leader has more in this story.

Entrepreneurship Camp

August 1, 2024

EVERY SUMMER ACROSS THE COUNTRY WEEK LONG CAMPS TAKE PLACE. YOUNG PEOPLE DO EVERYTHING FROM HORSE RIDING TO SWIMMING AND SOME EVEN LEARN A NEW LANGUAGE

IN REGINA THIS PAST WEEK, THERE’S A CAMP FOR YOUNG PEOPLE THAT IS GARANTEED TO GIVE YOUNG PEOPLE THE TOOLS THEY NEED TO START THEIR OWN BUSINESS.

FIRST NATIONS UNIVERSITY STUDENT BRITTANY POITRAS HAS MORE IN THIS STORY.

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