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RCMP attendance at Indigenous ceremony in Saskatchewan raises ire of chief

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An Indigenous leader is telling the RCMP to stay off reserve land after armed officers were dispatched to break up a sacred ceremony. “These are First Nations lands.

This is Indian land. Stay off our lands unless you are invited,” said Chief Bobby Cameron of the Federation of Saskatchewan Indigenous Nations (FSIN).

Public health orders do not supersede First Nations law and treaties, asserts Cameron, who added that maintaining tradition and ceremony is even more important during the COVID-19 pandemic. “Our ceremonies, our sun dances, our sweat lodges, our pipe ceremonies will continue and no matter what any government or what the RCMP may try to say or do, those ways are going to continue.” While powwows across the country have been

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