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Presley Desjarlais has lived through a boring spring. Almost every day, she peppered her family with the same question: When can they go and see the bears?
“I like when they’re snuggling together,” she explained.
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Finally, after months of anticipation, four-year-old Desjarlais was able to visit the Royal Saskatchewan Museum on Monday, one day after it reopened under strict COVID-19 precautions. She was pleased to see that despite all the disruption in her young life the beloved exhibit of a hibernating momma and baby bear had survived unchanged.
Thanks to his work as chief of the White Bear First Nation, shared with that community’s leaders in the 1990s, Indigenous-led casinos are regular fixtures today: Saskatchewan Indian Gaming Authority (SIGA), their regulating body, earned $270 million in the last fiscal year, employs more than 1,600 people, manages seven year-round casinos, and is also celebrating its 25th anniversary. But as Shepherd, now a band councillor, looks back he’s reminded that the tidy, yearly milestones offer only half a picture. Earlier events in the 90s point to familiar themes when governments interact with Indigenous people: Heavy-handed police power; minimal government support for First Nations; betrayed commitments.