Brandon Sun
By: The Canadian Press
EDMONTON - The City of Edmonton approved a bylaw earlier this month to change the names of its 12 wards to Indigenous ones. Here are the new names and their meanings:
Edmonton city skyline pictured on Tuesday, Oct. 17,2017. The city has agreed to give all of its wards Indigenous names. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Jason Franson
EDMONTON - The City of Edmonton approved a bylaw earlier this month to change the names of its 12 wards to Indigenous ones. Here are the new names and their meanings:
Nakota Isga (Ward 1): (NAH'-koh-tah EE'-ska). Of Sioux origin meaning "the people." In 1880, the Alexis Nakota Siouxwere set up on a reserve on the shore of what is now called Lac St. Anne after signing an adhesion, or sacred agreement, to Treaty 6. They established themselves along the Saskatchewan and Athabasca rivers and set up fur-trading posts.