© Gary Solilak/CBC Crown-Indigenous Relations Minister Marc Miller has travelled to the Peepeekisis Cree Nation to apologize on behalf of the Canadian government for the File Hills Colony Scheme. Crown-Indigenous Relations Minister Marc Miller is at the Peepeekisis Cree Nation on the reserve, just northwest of Balcarres, Sask., to deliver the apology on behalf of the federal government. Both were done without the Cree nation's consent. The settlement allowed the nation the option to acquire nearly as much as 18,720 acres of land to be added to its reserve land. According to the nation's website, the File Hills Colony aimed to create "an agrarian First Nation and [assimilate] Aboriginals into the colonial farming lifestyle."

Source: CBC News August 03, 2022 19:00 UTC