Royal medal - Saskatchewan Lieutenant Governor, Her Honour the Honourable Bernadette McIntyre, admires the George III medal worn by Chief Rodger Redman. The chief says that the medal, which predates confederation, establishes the Lakota as a sovereign nation. (Alan Hustak/Grasslands News)

Saskatchewan’s new Lieutenant Governor has acknowledged Standing Buffalo’s centuries old claim to be a sovereign law-making nation because of a royal protocol made between the Dakota Nation and King George III in 1763. The Dakota were rewarded by the Crown for their support of the British during the French and Indian wars and later in […]

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