04-10-2024 21:23 via fraservalleytoday.ca

First Nations leaders say Saskatchewan court workers sent home for orange shirts

MEADOW LAKE, Sask. — Indigenous leaders say two staff at a Saskatchewan courthouse were told to go home and take off the orange shirts they wore for the National Day for Truth and Reconciliation.
The Meadow Lake Tribal Council is demanding an investigation.
Richard Derocher, a vice-chief with the council, says the two First Nations women had been proud to wear the shirts, as well as orange skirts, for work Monday at the courthouse in Meadow Lake, northwest of Saskatoon.
But he says they we
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