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Demystifying Indigenous Hunting – A Panel Discussion
On April 2, 2025, Michelle Brass, Brian Seesequasis, Knowledge Keeper Shirley Wolfe-Keller, and Tom Harrison shared their experiences about the reality of Indigenous hunting in Treaty 4 and 6, including what it’s like to access and share land.
Treaty Land Sharing Network Launches in the Alberta Side of Treaty Six
On July 6, 2024, the Treaty Land Sharing Network (TLSN) officially expanded into the western half of Treaty Six territory in central Alberta. Eighty people gathered on Brenda Bohmer’s beautiful 640 acre farm near Bawlf to welcome the TLSN into this region.
Tour of Regent Park and Lumsden Beach Camp
On June 17th we toured a buffalo effigy that Joely BigEagle-Kequahtooway and Lorne Kequahtooway created at Regent Park, and then bussed out to 200 acres of native prairie at Lumsden Beach Camp (a TLSN member) for land-based learning, poetry readings, storytelling, and singing with Alvin Francis, Carol Rose GoldenEagle, Tom Harrison, and Kylie Orr.
Regional gathering at the Maiers’ farm
On June 3rd Paula and Morley Maier hosted a regional gathering at their farm south of Yorkton. We were honoured to be joined by Elder Ross Cadotte, Tribal Chief Isabel O’Soup of the Yorkton Tribal Council, Mayor Mitch Hippsley and representatives from the RM, friends and neighbours of the Maiers from Little Bone and nearby farms, and many others!
Partnership with the Comeback Society
We had a great day touring Tom and Tracy Harrison’s place with Alicia and Brett from the Comeback Society.
Treaty Land Sharing Network connects producers and Indigenous people through land access
Amy Seesequasis says for Indigenous people, everything revolves around the land. “When we look at our culture, it’s based on the land,” Seesequasis says in a virtual discussion on September 15, moderated by Canadian Cattlemen editor Lisa Guenther for a webinar with the Canadian Farm Writers’ Federation.
June gathering at Maida Vale Farms
On June 10, 2022, TLSN members Nettie Wiebe, Jim Robbins, and Will Robbins hosted a land sharing event at their farmstead near Delisle, SK. We had three school groups from Saskatoon join us for the day, and were surprised and honoured to have Debbie Baptiste, mother...
Treaty Land Sharing Network opposes new trespassing legislation
A group of farmers, ranchers, and other landholders strongly oppose Saskatchewan’s new trespassing legislation, which came into force on January 1, 2022, for creating new obstacles to the implementation of our shared treaties. The Trespass to Property Amendment Act,...
Land-sharing network called a sign for a hopeful future
“There is no danger in sharing land; that’s what treaty people do.”
Sharing treaty land
“No ecosystem is whole and functioning unless it has Indigenous Peoples accessing it.”