The Native Canadian Fastball Championships were hosted by George Gordon First Nation on August 2-4 in Regina. This tournament is difficult to win because the most elite Indigenous teams are assembled from coast to coast all vying for bragging rights to be the top Indigenous fastball team in the country. Several player...

Warning: the following story contains sensitive content including self-harm and suicide. Traditionally, First Nation people believe emotional, mental, spiritual and physical balance is an essential part of life but in contemporary society achieving that goal may not be so easy. Cameron Halkett, 18, knows firsthand how ...

Mason Fine's love of football helped him connect with his own Native American heritage. The 26-year-old quarterback born and raised in Pegs, Okla. is a member of the Cherokee Nation. He said being born into a family of football enthusiasts he was aware of the Canadian Football League but admits his knowledge of the pro...

The road to Reconciliation is not an easy one, but the Saskatchewan Roughriders Football Club is proving collaboration and inclusion does work. As part of National Day of Truth and Reconciliation some CFL teams unveiled Indigenous inspired jerseys to mark the day. The Saskatchewan Roughriders chose to do something a li...

PASQUA FIRST NATION - Retired NHL player Jordin Tootoo made some rounds in Treaty 4 territory during the month of November. One of the stops he made was in Pasqua First Nation for its National Addiction Awareness Week. Tootoo, the former NHL right-winger, author and motivational speaker is most known for being the firs...

Allan Lafond Jr's love for football has taken him across Canada and while pursuing his own educational goals he's helping to educate others about Indigenous issues. "As athletes, we're given a platform that we can use for something bigger than sports," the Dalhousie Tigers defensive lineman, told Eagle Feathe...

Saskatchewan is home to an all-new, female, U-22 junior hockey league and this hockey dad couldn't be happier. The six-team Bourgault Saskatchewan Junior Female Hockey League (SFJHL) kicked off the season last month and I was there to see the puck drop between the Outlook Ice Hawks and the Saskatoon Prairie Blaze. It's...

When Rosetta Cyr was very young, she played a game with her mom they called, "don't let the balloon touch the ground" little did she know it would result in a lifelong love of volleyball. From the George Gordon First Nation, Cyr is in her second year of study at the University of Saskatchewan. She is also a m...

The brisk, cold mornings is something that brings back memories of back to school for most kids, but in Canada it reminds us of hockey season. This is something Saskatchewan residents enjoy throughout the winter to help keep our spirits high during dark mornings and short days. The Big River First Nation gave us a tast...

The first KidSport chapter located on a First Nation has opened on the James Smith Cree Nation (JSCN) − and the community couldn't be happier. "We already have 22 young people registered for hockey, many of whom are playing for the first time," said Dinah Marion, JSCN KidSport coordinator and community ...

Thousands of Indigenous athletes from across Canada and the U.S. gathered in Halifax, to compete in the North American Indigenous games (NAIG) and Team Saskatchewan came out on top earning 175 medals. Willow Fayant-Velychko, a member of the Métis Nation - Saskatchewan was one of the athletes who helped with the ...

Hundreds gathered at the Dakota Dunes Resort for an extra special pep rally for Team Saskatchewan's 500 athletes before they made the trek to Halifax for the return of the North American Indigenous Games (NAIG). No one was more pleased with the send off than Saskatoon-resident Glenn LaFleur who is also the Metis repres...

Like many young athletes, high school football star Dayson Janvier began uploading game clips of himself on Instagram, as well as a sports social media platform called Hudl, simply as a way to share his talents with friends and family. What resulted from those posts has taken Janvier places he never imagined. Janvier, ...

Skateboarding contests are high-decibel events, featuring adrenaline-pumping music and wheels thumping onto plywood ramps. But on April 22, Regina's normally boisterous Heritage Skatepark fell quiet as a circle of girls and women gathered around Elder and Knowledge Keeper Diane Kaiswatum of Piapot First Nation, for a p...

Two young athletes from the Lac La Ronge Indian Band are flourishing in a sport they aspire to compete in on a provincial, or even national level. But unlike many of their peers, it's not in hockey, football, or soccer that they're training for. These provincial record-setters are dedicating themselves to weightlifting...

On the surface, the Tony Cote First Nations Winter Games may seem, simply, to be an opportunity for young Indigenous athletes to compete against their peers from across the province. But the games have deep, innumerable impacts on these young people's lives, extending far beyond sport. And the impacts of those games ha...

Thousands of Indigenous athletes from across Canada and the U.S. gathered in Halifax, to compete in the North American Indigenous games (NAIG) and Team Saskatchewan came out on top earning 175 medals. Willow Fayant-Velychko, a member of the Métis Nation - Saskatchewan was one of the athletes who helped with the ...

Hundreds gathered at the Dakota Dunes Resort for an extra special pep rally for Team Saskatchewan's 500 athletes before they made the trek to Halifax for the return of the North American Indigenous Games (NAIG). No one was more pleased with the send off than Saskatoon-resident Glenn LaFleur who is also the Metis repres...

Like many young athletes, high school football star Dayson Janvier began uploading game clips of himself on Instagram, as well as a sports social media platform called Hudl, simply as a way to share his talents with friends and family. What resulted from those posts has taken Janvier places he never imagined. Janvier, ...

Skateboarding contests are high-decibel events, featuring adrenaline-pumping music and wheels thumping onto plywood ramps. But on April 22, Regina's normally boisterous Heritage Skatepark fell quiet as a circle of girls and women gathered around Elder and Knowledge Keeper Diane Kaiswatum of Piapot First Nation, for a p...

Two young athletes from the Lac La Ronge Indian Band are flourishing in a sport they aspire to compete in on a provincial, or even national level. But unlike many of their peers, it's not in hockey, football, or soccer that they're training for. These provincial record-setters are dedicating themselves to weightlifting...

On the surface, the Tony Cote First Nations Winter Games may seem, simply, to be an opportunity for young Indigenous athletes to compete against their peers from across the province. But the games have deep, innumerable impacts on these young people's lives, extending far beyond sport. And the impacts of those games ha...