Stoney Nakoda

“The intention of this report is to provide means for agencies and leadership to determine their community’s needs, as well as the necessary responses and potential avenues to prevent or reduce homelessness and housing instability in the Bow Valley."

"I encourage members to educate themselves, read about it, don’t just go off what one person says or another family member says, read about it for yourself and go that direction.”

“It is challenging, but once you’ve overcome it, you feel proud about yourself. If I don’t ride because I was scared, it bugs me.”

“Everything I say, everything I do, everything that I am, it comes from my community and it comes from my family. Any inspiration I have, it’s the community.”

“I’m a pretty badass person because I went through a lot and I have a lot of stories to share and a lot of obstacles I had to overcome and still trying to get over.”

“We’ve had overdoses for many years, but recently it’s been hitting hard, it’s been one after the other, they keep dropping, and it’s because the pandemic and the dealers are getting brave enough to mix anything and that’s what causing our people to die, almost every day."

“We’ve actually been getting disrespected so many times from the non-Native people and we want respect. That’s how we want it actually with our films, our arts, and with our music.”

A look at the National Indigenous Peoples Day events happening around the Bow Valley on June 21 and throughout this summer.

"I feel like having a full-time Indigenous arts presence has made a big impact for the Indigenous arts community."

A Calgary man previously charged with drug trafficking on the Stoney Nakoda First Nation is facing further charges following a search warrant being executed on his home.