New Saskatoon bridge named for Chief Mistawasis

Having the name of Chief Mistawasis applied to Saskatoon’s new commuter bridge is a big improvement from the way Indigenous people were regarded when Roseline Daniels was a child at residential school.
“It’s like we’re coming together. We are, you know. There’s no longer the Indians one side, the whites one side,” Daniels said Thursday at the National Indigenous People’s Day event where the bridge name was announced.
It was chosen by a committee of Indig