Mîciwin Pîsim | Little Pine First Nation
The Little Pine First Nation is situated in west-central Saskatchewan, with a proud heritage of maintaining traditional Indigenous practices and community resilience.
Overview
Last Updated 2025-06-13 02:46:28 UTC- Name: Little Pine (ISC Code: 340)
- Former Names: Little Pine Band, Little Pine Reserve
- Band Style: Plains Cree
- Cultural Area: Northern Plains
- Indigenous Language: Cree (nêhiyawêwin)
- Number of Registered Members: 2321
- Band Website: http://www.littlepine.ca/index.html
- Phone Number: (306) 398-4942
- Fax Number: (306) 398-2377
- Address: PO BOX 70, PAYNTON, SK
- General Email:
Band Council
- Governance Type: Not Applicable
- Term Expires: 11/26/2025
- Chief: DONALD IRONCHILD
- Number of Council Members: 6
DONALD IRONCHILD
Chief
RUSSELL BEARSEARS
Councillor
MATTHEW FRANK
Councillor
LAWRENCE KENNEDY
Councillor
ROLAND PETE
Councillor
LISA SAPP
Councillor
Administrative Contacts
Band Financial Statements
- 2024 - Report Not Available
- 2023 - Report Not Available
- 2022 - Report Not Available
- 2021 - Report Not Available
- 2020 - Report Not Available
- 2019 - Report Not Available
- 2018 - Audited consolidated financial statements
- 2017 - Audited consolidated financial statements
- 2016 - Audited consolidated financial statements
- 2015 - Audited consolidated financial statements
- 2014 - Audited consolidated financial statements
- 2013 - Audited consolidated financial statements
- 2012 - Little Pine20122013.pdf
- 2011 - Little Pine20112012.pdf
- 2010 - Little Pine20102011.pdf
- 2009 - Little Pine20092010.pdf
- 2006 - Little Pine20062007.pdf
- 2005 - Little Pine20052006.pdf
- 2004 - Little Pine20042005.pdf
- 2003 - Little Pine20032004.pdf
- 2002 - Little Pine20022003.pdf
- 2001 - Little Pine20012002.pdf
Band Council Remuneration
- 2024 - Report Not Available
- 2023 - Report Not Available
- 2022 - Report Not Available
- 2021 - Report Not Available
- 2020 - Report Not Available
- 2019 - Report Not Available
- 2018 - Schedule of Remuneration and Expenses
- 2017 - Schedule of Remuneration and Expenses
- 2016 - Schedule of Remuneration and Expenses
- 2015 - Schedule of Remuneration and Expenses
- 2014 - Schedule of Remuneration and Expenses
- 2013 - Schedule of Remuneration and Expenses
Band Owned Corporations
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Laws, Bylaws, and Codes
Intergovernmental Agreements
Active Court Cases
- No active court cases at this time.
Downloadable Court Records
- No court records available for download at this time.
Location Map
Reserves
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ISC Code: 9895
MIN-A-HE-QUO-SIS INDIAN RESERVE NO. 116A
260.8 Hectares
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ISC Code: 9277
MIN-A-HE-QUO-SIS INDIAN RESERVE NO. 116C
503.9 Hectares
45 KM NORTHWEST OF BATTLEFORD, 68 KM NORTH OF WILKIE
[52.7362682, -108.3052431] -
ISC Code: 6475
LITTLE PINE INDIAN RESERVE NO. 116
26063.5 Hectares
53 KM NW/NO OF/DE NORTH BATTLEFORD
[52.7764752, -108.2974555]
Media Reports
- Native elder translating the Bible into Cree (8 days ago)
- Native elder translating the Bible into Cree (8 days ago)
- Native Sun News: A Wounded Knee descendant speaks out (8 days ago)
- Native Sun News: A Wounded Knee descendant speaks out (8 days ago)
- Ongoing incident on Poundmaker FN: RCMP arrest person of interest (8 days ago)
- Ongoing incident on Poundmaker FN: RCMP arrest person of interest (8 days ago)
- Native History: Descendants Remember Battle of Little Bighorn (8 days ago)
- Native History: Descendants Remember Battle of Little Bighorn (8 days ago)
- SO Little Is Left at Wounded Knee (Published 1972) (16 days ago)
- ‘Sending them home to die’ (16 days ago)
- The rise and fall of Native Americans in Lycoming County (16 days ago)
- ‘A proud day to be Lakota’: Pine Ridge hosts first Victory Day celebration (16 days ago)
- Former Little Pine chief Wayne Semaganis to run for N.B. mayor (16 days ago)
- Rising Above the Reservation: Improved facilities part of positive push (23 days ago)
- Native Sun News Today: Community on Pine Ridge Reservation focuses on youth (23 days ago)
- Tribes Show Little Interest in Offering Abortions on Reservations Despite Speculation They Could (23 days ago)
- Walk to be held Monday in Lac Du Flambeau to honor missing and murdered Indigenous women (23 days ago)
- 36th Annual Pinelands Short Course (23 days ago)
- Crown transferring coal mineral rights to Little Pine First Nation (23 days ago)
- First Nation Community Profiles (about 1 month ago)
- Battlefords First Nations, municipalities lauded for 'historic' agreement (about 1 month ago)
- Canada and First Nations in the prairies reach agreements on critical agricultural benefit claims (about 1 month ago)
- Torres Strait, Arnhem Land and Cape York (about 2 months ago)
- Torres Strait, Arnhem Land and Cape York (about 2 months ago)
- USask to award highest honour to two new recipients (about 2 months ago)
- Treaty 6 First Nations part of JUNO nominated Indigenous group (about 2 months ago)
- Little Pine First Nation man shot by police released from hospital as independent probe begins (about 2 months ago)
- Little Pine First Nation man shot by police released from hospital as independent probe begins (about 2 months ago)
- Lisa Edelstein Joins ‘Little Bird’ Indigenous Drama (Exclusive) (about 2 months ago)
- He created an indigenous digital currency. The dream is still alive. (about 2 months ago)
- My Time with the Oglala Lakota People (about 2 months ago)
- Gang Violence Grows on an Indian Reservation (Published 2009) (about 2 months ago)
- Corporate Canada’s Journey to Right the Wrongs of Indigenous Exclusion (about 2 months ago)
- Sask. comedian is the first Indigenous woman in a televised Winnipeg Comedy Festival showcase (about 2 months ago)
- Your Guide to Powwow Country (2 months ago)
- Husky pleads guilty over oil leak into North Saskatchewan River (2 months ago)
- Graphic novel brings Xwémalhkwu (Homalco) Elders’ voices to a new generation (2 months ago)
- 'Little victims everywhere': Child sexual abuse ravages Native communities (2 months ago)
- Canada and First Nations in the prairies reach agreements on critical agricultural benefit claims (2 months ago)
- History, Controversy & Indigenous Involvement – Death of Keystone XL (2 months ago)
- Artist crafts 'story skirts' that celebrate Indigenous lives (2 months ago)
- Unpaid bills and broken promises: Indig Inc. problems go beyond failed Tokyo trade mission (2 months ago)
- Cheyenna Sapp to be first Indigenous woman on Winnipeg Comedy Festival televised show (2 months ago)
- TRANSCRIPT: Missing & Murdered - Season 2, EP 7 (2 months ago)
- In the Pine Valley pipeline debate, a small tribe’s right to water remains largely ignored (2 months ago)
- Gold Horse Casino opens in Lloydminster (3 months ago)
- Indigenous group strikes deal for equity stake in Keystone XL pipeline (3 months ago)
- Native Sun News: Young Pine Ridge resident killed after exposing 'fake' medicine man (3 months ago)
- Delmas Walk to honour residential school students and survivors planned for July 28 (3 months ago)
- Pathfinders and Resistors (3 months ago)
- Suicide prevention and Canada's justice system on the forefront for young Indigenous leaders (3 months ago)
- FSIN 'outraged' over alleged racist incident in the Battlefords (3 months ago)
- Free to be Cree to focus on language, traditions and Indigenous knowledge (3 months ago)
- Indigenous tradition meets pop culture, 1 bead at a time (3 months ago)
- Little Pine First Nation family upset about Elder’s treatment at North Battleford business (3 months ago)
- Cuthand: First Nations servicemen ignored after the war (3 months ago)
- Cuthand: Mid-summer reflections on past and present (3 months ago)
- Little Pine First Nation school participates in Elder housing project (3 months ago)
- 'The pitch party just blew the doors wide open': Aboriginal entrepreneur plans major expansion, seeks to help others succeed (3 months ago)
- Little Pine First Nation Chief Wayne Semaganis on Trudeau’s leadership (3 months ago)
- Little Bird (3 months ago)
- Indian Creek to Lower Buckhorn Camp (4 months ago)
- Doug Cuthand: New Indigenous minister cleans up 137-year-old Sask. mess (4 months ago)
- 'Walking With Our Sisters' exhibit comes to Saskatoon (4 months ago)
- ‘I was ecstatic’: Local actor selected for role in Indigenous television show for CTV Comedy Channel (4 months ago)
- National Indigenous women's organization accused of union-busting as it lays off dozens of staff (4 months ago)
- Glimmers of hope on Pine Ridge Indian Reservation (4 months ago)
- Edwards student’s positive spirit guides him to graduation (4 months ago)
- Self-proclaimed 'Indigenerds' claim space in streaming, sci-fi and table top role-playing games (4 months ago)
- A Simple Guide to Vermont's Evergreens (4 months ago)
- PBS Series ‘Little Bird’ Details Indigenous Experience Amid ‘Sixties Scoop’ (4 months ago)
- Indigenous story short film shot and produced in Penticton now live (4 months ago)
- All-female indigenous talk show takes off in Regina (4 months ago)
- ‘I was ecstatic’: Local actor selected for role in Indigenous television show for CTV Comedy Channel (4 months ago)
- Short film documents journey from Osoyoos Indian Band member to Kamloops, speaks on why they want to keep the word 'Indian' (4 months ago)
- 3rd annual Delmas Residential School walk set for July 28 (4 months ago)
- Battleford-area mayors, First Nations chiefs issue anti-racist plea following Colten Boushie report (4 months ago)
- First Nations ponder police service (4 months ago)
- First Nations artists, business owners promote their work online amid COVID-19 social distancing (4 months ago)
- 'Naive but a good intention' — adoptive parents grapple with fallout of Sixties Scoop (4 months ago)
- Canada's Alabama: Have we learned anything from a racist past? (4 months ago)
- Rod King never gave up fighting for his First Nation (4 months ago)
- How Indigenous communities are working to boost COVID-19 vaccine rates (4 months ago)
- Little Pine celebrates grand opening of new band office (4 months ago)
- TRANSCRIPT: Missing & Murdered - Season 2, EP 6 (4 months ago)
- How to Restore Native Forests on a Small Scale (4 months ago)
- Little Pine, Poundmaker seek to establish Aboriginal police force (4 months ago)
- Indian Creek Camp (4 months ago)
- First Nations start work on seventh gaming facility in Saskatchewan (4 months ago)
- Federal government announces several settlements of historic claims with First Nations in Saskatchewan (5 months ago)
- Feature: Developing an Indigenous police service (5 months ago)
- Meet Richard Black Elk: Lakota Warrior, Proud Teacher for Little Wound School on Pine Ridge (5 months ago)
- 2014 Dog Bite Fatality: Pack of Dogs Kills 8-Year Old Girl on Pine Ridge Indian Reservation (5 months ago)
- 'Just get it done:' Indian day school survivors divided over proposed settlement (5 months ago)
- Missing & Murdered: Finding Cleo (5 months ago)
- Congratulations to our 2021 Graduate Student Mentorship Stipend Winners! (5 months ago)
- ‘I think of my mushum’: Families of residential school survivors gather for Delmas walk (5 months ago)
- Little Cleo vanished 40 years ago. Thanks to a podcast her family finally know what became of her. (5 months ago)
- Sir John A. Macdonald's birthday cause for reflection, not celebration for First Nations (5 months ago)
- Saskatchewan woman creates indigenous board game (5 months ago)
- Reconciliation walkers surprise residential school survivors (5 months ago)
- Jean Cuthand Goodwill (5 months ago)
- Long-term drinking water advisory lifted on Black Lake First Nation (5 months ago)
- 'I don't want to let them down': Sask. archery coach flies to Indigenous Games days after losing sister (5 months ago)
- Settlements between Ottawa and 9 Sask. First Nations, for missed 1880s $5 treaty payments, total $38.5M (5 months ago)
- Jason Johnson: A natural healer (5 months ago)
- Millions for Sask First Nations - Possibly millions more for Mosquito (5 months ago)
- Little Pine First Nation family upset about Elder’s treatment at North Battleford business (5 months ago)
- Debunking the myth that all First Nations people receive free post-secondary education (5 months ago)
- Northwestern Sask. First Nations moving ahead with community safety officer program (5 months ago)
- Indigenous youth in Sask. speak out about racism, hope for change (5 months ago)
- Creative Saskatchewan to audit grants given to Indig Inc. and Heather Abbey (5 months ago)
- First Nations look at forming own police service (5 months ago)
- Creator of Sixties Scoop adoption program says it wasn't meant to place kids with white families (5 months ago)
- Two Sask. First Nations host forum to put issues of gangs, drugs out in the open (5 months ago)
- Power of northern lights tapped in new Indigenous thriller (5 months ago)
- The Indigenous Economy Is About to Take Off (5 months ago)
- ‘I think of my mushum’: Families of residential school survivors gather for Delmas walk (5 months ago)
- Cuthand: Cypress Hills hold special meaning to First Nations (5 months ago)
- OP-ED: A father and son offer differing views on residential schools (5 months ago)
- FSIN among groups seeking to oppose Indian day school settlement agreement (5 months ago)
- New generation of Indigenous elders coming out of previous colonial mentality (5 months ago)
- Treaty Land Entitlement agreement signed 25 years ago (5 months ago)
- Five injured in explosion on Saskatchewan reserve (5 months ago)
- North Carolina is home to 8 recognized American Indian tribes. Here’s a little bit about each. (5 months ago)
- Sask. First Nation announces hundreds of unmarked graves found at former residential school site (5 months ago)
- 15 Dwarf Pine Trees That Won't Take Over Your Yard (5 months ago)
- Click here to listen to Missing & Murdered: Finding Cleo (5 months ago)
- Farmers assault Indigenous man in alleged vigilante justice situation (5 months ago)
- Indigenous drama student finds themselves through theatre (5 months ago)
- Sask. First Nations rally behind northern community in dispute with uranium company (5 months ago)
- Cuthand: Wartime service by First Nations veterans a source of pride (5 months ago)
- Little Pine actress, comedian starring in new CTV series (5 months ago)
- 'We've been frozen out': First Nations concerned about Lloydminster casino project (5 months ago)
- Cuthand: Treaty Land Entitlement allowed Sask. First Nations to buy farmland as rural population dwindled (5 months ago)
- Combating diabetes using community strengths, aided by USask research (5 months ago)
- Small grocers feel squeezed by suppliers, and shoppers bear the pain (5 months ago)
- Meet the Indigenous artists blending traditional art forms with pop culture, modern medical images (5 months ago)
- Florida Christmas trees might be a little ugly, but they’re better for the planet (5 months ago)
- Rare Indigenous eyewitness account of Battle of the Little Bighorn found in Ontario (5 months ago)
- Lycoming County native became Philly’s 1st woman detective (5 months ago)
- How Indigenous reporters are elevating true crime (5 months ago)
- Andre Bear (5 months ago)
- Indigenous studies class develops oral history inventory for descendants of Big Bear (5 months ago)
- CBC podcast solves decades-old mystery of Saskatchewan girl lost in Sixties Scoop (5 months ago)
- These Indigenous children died far away more than a century ago. Here’s how they finally got home. (5 months ago)
- Tribe Embraces Recreational Marijuana Sales on Reservation Where Alcohol Is Banned (5 months ago)
- Waitangi Day in Northland to get visit from Canadians (5 months ago)
- ‘Little Bird’ review: A powerful exploration of the ‘Sixties Scoop’ and Indigenous assimilation (5 months ago)
- Award-Winning Canadian Drama LITTLE BIRD Comes to PBS (5 months ago)
- Huskers mentor young filmmakers on the Pine Ridge Reservation (5 months ago)
- Indigenous tribe sues US over lack of Pine Ridge law enforcement (5 months ago)
- Acting Piapot chief, other Sask. Indigenous people react to CBC investigation into Buffy Sainte-Marie (5 months ago)
- Ottawa gives $37M to Prairie First Nations for holding out historic 'rightfully owed' funds (5 months ago)
- 'Our story is about hope': How siblings of lost Saskatchewan girl made peace with their loss (5 months ago)
- Sask. First Nation kids head to New Zealand to learn about Treaty of Waitangi (5 months ago)
- Barriers and benefits: Indigenous artists in rural Saskatchewan (5 months ago)
- Graphic novel from Homalco First Nation aims to spark youth interest in traditional teachings (5 months ago)
- Little Pine and Poundmaker First Nations host two-day drugs and gangs forum (5 months ago)
- This 'prickly pine' is one of 10 native species | Mystery Plant (5 months ago)
- A former Native American boarding school reckons with its dark past (5 months ago)
- Nature Trails: Hoosier state has three native pine species (5 months ago)
- Canadian indigenous deal with KXL oil pipeline took years, aims to unlock long-term wealth (5 months ago)
- ‘A proud day to be Lakota’: Pine Ridge hosts first Victory Day celebration (5 months ago)
- New USask partnership will use traditional Cree approaches to make communities safer (5 months ago)
- Native Plant Society: An appreciation of the gray pine (5 months ago)
- Treaty 6 First Nations part of JUNO nominated Indigenous group (5 months ago)
- A new giant tree found near Bolton (5 months ago)
- The Suffering of Canada’s Indigenous People (5 months ago)
- Little Pine, Poundmaker First Nations team up to train special constables (5 months ago)
- Cuthand: Buffalo returning to Prairies revives First Nations traditions (5 months ago)
- First Nations land vital to Sask. farm (5 months ago)
Academic Research
- Examining the heritage and legacy of Indigenous land management in oak and pine forests of northeastern United States
- People-Tree Entanglements: Pine in Aotearoa New Zealand
- Cultural importance of white pine (Pinus strobus L.) to the Kitcisakik Algonquin community of western Quebec, Canada
- Claiming the new north: development and colonialism at the Pine Point mine, Northwest Territories, Canada
- White Pine in Time and Place: Anishinaabe History, Western Herbalism, and the Settler Dynamics of Appropriation
- Community Resilience and Creating Capacities for Risk Reduction in First Nations Communities, Case Study in Minegoziibe Anishinabe (Pine Creek First Nation)
- White pine: The tree that sparked peace, revolution, and insurrection
- A predictive modeling and ecocultural study of pine mushrooms (Tricholoma murrillianum) with the Líl̓wat Nation in British Columbia, Canada
- When the Pine Needles Fall: Indigenous Acts of Resistance
- Subttsasa Biehtsevuomátjistema: Recalling the memories and stories from our little pine forest
- When the Pine Needles Fall: Indigenous Acts of Resistance
- When the Pine Needles Fall: Indigenous Acts of Resistance
- When the Pine Needles Fall: Indigenous Acts of Resistance
- When the Pine Needles Fall: Indigenous Acts of Resistance
- Common Forest Trees of Hawaii: Native and Introduced
- Human augmentation of historical red pine fire regimes in the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness
- Common Forest Trees of Hawaii: Native and Introduced
- When the Pine Needles Fall: Indigenous Acts of Resistance
- When the Pine Needles Fall: Indigenous Acts of Resistance
- Common Forest Trees of Hawaii: Native and Introduced
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Band Publications
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Third Party Reports
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