alberta first nation

• Siksika Nation wants go ahead from Ottawa on police force

  ``We're funding it ourselves and we're just asking for co-operation from Alberta, co-operation from the federal government, to keep our people safe.''

  Canada

  Jul 18
  
• Remains of Cree woman sent home to Alberta decades after disappearance

  About 43 years after she was last heard from, the body of Shirley Ann Soosay is expected to be returned to her home community of Samson Cree Nation, south of Edmonton.

  Canada

  May 27
  
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• Alberta First Nation investigating human remains found near residential school site

  Last year, Saddle Lake Cree Nation formed a group called the Acimowin Opaspiw Society to investigate possible burial sites.

  Canada

  May 18
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• Alberta’s Blood Tribe fighting human trafficking with ‘Project Moon Woman’

  The Blood Tribe Police Project Moon Woman unit aims to investigate human trafficking cases while raising awareness and training front-line officers.

  Crime

  May 15
• Hundreds of people join walk and ceremony at Tsuut’ina First Nation near Calgary

  People pinned orange and yellow ribbons on a white bulletin board at an outdoor arena where the walk came to an end.

  Canada

  Jun 7, 2021
• Alberta sets sights on expanding forest products harvest as high prices drive returns

  Bigstone Forestry Inc. was formed with the help of Alberta-Pacific Forest Industries Inc. to help supply its pulp mill near Athabasca with logs from its forest management area.

  Environment

  May 30, 2021
• Man killed in officer-involved shooting on Alberta First Nation: RCMP

  The confrontation resulted in a 24-year-old being killed at the scene in an officer-involved shooting, RCMP said.

  Canada

  Apr 3, 2021
• Alberta family working to bring home loved one who died of COVID-19 in Arizona

  Waylon Blood passed away last week while living in Tucson, Arizona. He had been working at a pharmaceutical company there.

  Health

  Jan 20, 2021
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• Alexis Nakota Sioux Chief criticizes Alberta’s COVID-19 vaccine rollout

  As of Tuesday, Indigenous Services Canada (ISC) lists Alberta as having 4,086 confirmed cases within First Nations.

  Canada

  Jan 19, 2021
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• ‘The value of your elders’: First Nation using youth to spread COVID-19 message

  Messaging is being delivered in schools on Stoney Nakoda First Nation, to get young people onside over fear of harming their grandparents.

  Features

  Dec 28, 2020