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James Myles Venne (died November 28, 2007) was a northern Saskatchewan First Nations leader. He served as chief of the Lac La Ronge First Nation from 1971 to 1983 and then again from 1985 to 1987.
The name “La Ronge” comes from the lake itself, although the actual origin of the name is uncertain. The French verb ronger translates as “to gnaw”, with at least one explanation theorising that 17th- and 18th-century French fur traders referred to the lake as la ronge (literally, the chewed) due to the abundant beaver population along the lake’s shoreline.
The Lac La Ronge Indian Band (Woods Cree: ᒥᐢᑕᐦᐃ ᓵᑲᐦᐃᑲᓂᕽ, romanized: mistahi-sâkahikanihk [2]) is a Woodland Cree (Sakāwithiniwak) First Nations in northern Saskatchewan. It is one of the ten largest Cree ( Nîhithaw ) band governments in Canada, the largest First Nation in Saskatchewan, with the administrative centre ...
Between 1976 and 1981, she found employment teaching at the Saskatchewan Indian Cultural College, the Lac La Ronge Band, and the Saskatchewan Survival School (now the Joe Duquette High School) in Saskatoon. [5] In 1984, she received a Master of Arts in Cree linguistics from the University of Manitoba, [3] working closely with Professor H.C ...
Charles Arthurson was the first aboriginal bishop in Canada. [1]He was born in 1937 in Norway House, Manitoba and ordained in 1972 in the Diocese of Keewatin.He has served in the parishes of Shamattawa (1966–70) as catechist; Norway House, Manitoba (1972–73); Big Trout Lake, Ontario (1974–76); Split Lake, Manitoba (1976–78) and Sioux Lookout, Ontario (1978–83).
Island on Lac la Ronge. Lac La Ronge Provincial Park [5] extends around the lake on three sides, starting at La Ronge and ending along the east shore. [6] The park contains four RV parks, two of which are on the west shore of the lake, one is in the town of Missinipe (Missinipe is the Woodland Cree name for the Churchill River which is on the south-west shore of Otter Lake, which flows through ...
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Little Hills 158A is an Indian reserve of the Lac La Ronge Indian Band in Saskatchewan. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] It is 6 miles south-west of La Ronge , and on the north bank of the Little Hills River. See also