Chief Poundmaker News Today

As museums and galleries across the United States shutter exhibits featuring Indigenous remains and cultural objects, some Canadian museums are still working on updating their repatriation policies.

Cindy Woodhouse, the newly elected national chief of the Assembly of First Nations, spent Friday at Poundmaker Cree Nation, about 200 kilometres west of Saskatoon.

In his paintings – and now, in the memoir of his trickster alter ego – a Cree artist challenges Canada’s colonial narratives while revelling in Indigenous wisdom, laughter, sexuality and joy

Chief Poundmaker, who was imprisoned for a charge of treason-felony he would later be exonerated for, gifted a beaded pipe bag to a chaplain. It has now been returned to the Chief's homeland by the chaplain's great great nephew.

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Melvin Sapp wrote down his school’s name as he knew it best — in Cree. Because of that, he says, his claim for compensation was denied.

Melvin Sapp wrote down his school’s name as he knew it best — in Cree. Because of that, he says, his claim for compensation was denied.

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TORONTO — Century old artifacts belonging to a 19th century Plains Cree chief who was known as a peacekeeper were returned to his descendants in a repatriation ceremony at the Royal Ontario Museum.

TORONTO — Century old artifacts belonging to a 19th century Plains Cree chief who was known as a peacekeeper were returned to his descendants in a repatriation ceremony at the Royal Ontario Museum.