Standing Buffalo

Elder from the Standing Buffalo Dakota First Nation explains harvesting, preparation methods, and nutritional value of food available around the reserve.

Canadian Plains Studies Thesis (M.A.)--University of Regina, 2012.

Report includes inquiries and responses regarding: Gamblers First Nation Treaty Land Entitlement Inquiry; Nekaneet First Nation Agricultural and Other Benefit Under Treaty 4 Inquiry; Moose Deer Point First Nation, Pottawatomi Rights Inquiry. Commissioners include: Daniel J. Bellegarde, P. E. James Prentice, Roger J. Augustine, Carole T. Corcoran, Elijah Harper, and Sheila G. Purdy. [This file has been saved and made available online with permission from the Indian Claims Commission website before it closed down in March 2009.]

Report includes background documents, articles, comments and responses regarding the following cases: Standing Buffalo Dakota Nation, Flooding Negotiations (Mediation); Peepeekisis First Nation Inquiry, Fire Hills Colony Claim; Moosomin First Nation ,1909 Reserve Land Surrender (Mediation); Thunderchild First Nation, 1908 Surrender Claim (Mediation); and the Betsiamites Band, Highway 138 and Rivière Betsiamites Bridge Inquires. Commissioners include: Renée Dupuis, Daniel J. Bellegarde, Jane Dickson-Gilmore, Alan C. Holman, and Sheila G. Purdy.

"National publication for the Indians of Canada." Focus on Indigenous issues, events at residential schools and legal decisions. Previously published as Indian Missionary Record . Articles reflect the attitudes and policies of the time.

Looks at Peepeekisis First Nation's File Hills Colony claim and Standing Buffalo Dakota First Nation Flooding claim. Complete issue on one pdf.

"This article describes a research program that aims to build understanding, identify barriers and facilitators, and inform programs and policies related to the wellness challenges and opportunities of Aboriginal youth at Standing Buffalo Dakota First Nation in Saskatchewan".

Examines current best practices for providing culturally-safe health care services, and conducting health research with Indigenous communities, and discusses a community-based research project which explored community members’ knowledge of and experience with dementia.

Comments on a project that paired youth with Elders to explore cultural practices that could inform paths to living well.

Explores what culturally respectful care means in Aboriginal communities and how this concept can help to improve health care delivery and education.

Historical background and submission to Indian Claims Commission (ICC) facilitation of claim for loss of use of flooded lands in Qu'Appelle Valley Indian Development Agency (QVIDA). ICC facilitated process, parties reached Settlement Agreement that was ratified and approved in 2003.

File contains opening remarks mainly by Chief Lorne Waditaka, Chief of the Wahpeton First Nation. Waditaka discusses national issues such as the Constitution and First Nations place in it, the development of self-governance structures, the need for continued federal responsibilities and the importance of the treaties, the Metis people and their place in Canada, urban aboriginals, justice issues, social issues, and what he hopes will be gained from the hearings of the Royal Commission. Waditaka then introduces Commissioners Bertha Wilson, Paul Chartrand, Rene Dussault, and Mary Sillet.

File contains a presentation by Chief Wayne Goodwill of the Standing Buffalo Dakota First Nation. Goodwill relates the history of his particular band, and claims that "prior to 1850 our ancestor used to roam right up to the Saskatchewan Rivers and they migrated with the buffalo. In the 1860s when the wars began in the southern area along the Black Hills [South Dakota], most of the people did not migrate anymore." Goodwill protests of being unable to attain adequate funding to complete his people's study of its history in Canada.

Comments on a spiritual feed held in honour of a missing woman's twenty-second birthday. Article is located by scrolling to page 2.

Nursing Thesis (M.N.)--University of Saskatchewan, 2011.

Discusses research done by the Southern Saskatchewan/Urban Aboriginal Health Coalition to create culturally respectful health care in two Saskatchewan Aboriginal communities.

Evaluation of pilot project undertaken from 2006 to 2011 on 11 reserves. Based on results of interviews with 36 key informants.

Brief review of nine principles for community based participatory research and offers a description of the context of a long-term relationship with Standing Buffalo First Nation in Saskatchewan.

Looks at the success in both education and dance achieved by Kristy Yuzicappi. Article located by scrolling to page 7.