Deh Cho | Sucker Creek First Nation
Community Profile
- Sucker Creek First Nation is a Dene community situated in northwestern Alberta, known for preserving traditional lands and cultural practices
- Last Updated 2025-05-26 11:28:31 UTC
- Name: Sucker Creek (ISC Code: 456)
- Former Names: Little Smoky First Nation
- Band Style: First Nation
- Cultural Area: Mackenzie River Basin
- Indigenous Language: Dene
- Number of Registered Members: 3333
Governance
Band Council
- GOVERNANCE TYPE: Not Applicable
- TERM EXPIRES: 11/28/2027
- CHIEF: RODERICK WILLIER
- NUMBER OF COUNCIL MEMBERS:13
- CAROL OKEMOW
- RODERICK WILLIER
- NOELLA WILLIER
- CONNIE CALLIOU
- BRANDY GIROUX
- JERRY WILLIER
- MATTHEW WILLIER
- JAMES BADGER
- GLEN WILLIER
- DAVID CUNNINGHAM
- LISA BADGER
- ZACHARIAH KACHUK
- TYLER SHANTZ
Contact Information
- BAND WEBSITE: /nations/374-sucker-creek
- PHONE NUMBER: (780) 523-4426
- FAX NUMBER: (780) 523-3111
- ADDRESS: PO BOX 65, ENILDA, AB
- EMAILS:
- Chief CAROL OKEMOW:
- Chief RODERICK WILLIER:
- Councillor NOELLA WILLIER:
- Councillor CONNIE CALLIOU:
- Councillor BRANDY GIROUX:
- Councillor JERRY WILLIER:
- Councillor MATTHEW WILLIER:
- Councillor JAMES BADGER:
- Councillor GLEN WILLIER:
- Councillor DAVID CUNNINGHAM:
- Councillor LISA BADGER:
- Councillor ZACHARIAH KACHUK:
- Councillor TYLER SHANTZ:
- General Band Office:
- Media Contact:
- Referrals Contact:
- Websites
Band Financial Statements
- 2024 - Audited consolidated financial statements
- 2023 - Audited consolidated financial statements
- 2022 - Audited consolidated financial statements
- 2021 - Audited consolidated financial statements
- 2020 - Audited consolidated financial statements
- 2019 - Audited consolidated financial statements
- 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
- 2010 - Sucker Creek20102011.pdf
- 2009 - Sucker Creek20092010.pdf
- 2008 - Sucker Creek20082009.pdf
- 2007 - Sucker Creek20072008.pdf
- 2006 - Sucker Creek20062007.pdf
- 2005 - Sucker Creek20052006.pdf
- 2004 - Sucker Creek20042005.pdf
- 2003 - Sucker Creek20032004.pdf
- 2002 - Sucker Creek20022003.pdf
Band Council Remuneration
- 2024 - Schedule of Remuneration and Expenses
- 2023 - Schedule of Remuneration and Expenses
- 2022 - Schedule of Remuneration and Expenses
- 2021 - Schedule of Remuneration and Expenses
- 2020 - Schedule of Remuneration and Expenses
- 2019 - Schedule of Remuneration and Expenses
- 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
Laws, Bylaws, and Codes
Intergovernmental Agreements
Lands and Traditional Territory
Reserves
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ISC Code: 6688
SUCKER CREEK NO. 150A
5987.0 Hectares
22 KM S/S OF/DE HIGH PRAIRIE
[55.4419772, -116.1336802]
- Encompasses regions around Lesser Slave Lake
- Traditional lands include boreal forest and wetland ecosystems
- Historically used for hunting, trapping, and fishing
- Significant watershed areas in northwestern Alberta
Consultations and Referrals
Band Submissions
Consultation Reports
Band Business Interests
Band Owned Corporations
Court Records
Downloadable Court Decisions
- Prince v. Sucker Creek First Nation
- Prince v. Sucker Creek First Nation
- Sucker Creek First Nation v. Canada (Attorney General)
- Cardinal v. Sucker Creek First Nation
- Willier v. Sucker Creek Indian Band #150A
- Cardinal v. Sucker Creek Indian Band No. 150a
- Willier v. Sucker Creek Indian Band #150A
- Sucker Creek First Nation v. Canada (Attorney General)
- Cardinal v. Willier
- Patenaude v. Sucker Creek First Nation #150A
- James Badger and the Sucker Creek First Nation v. Alberta Environment and Sustainable Resource Development, re: Minister of Environment and Sustainable Resource Development
Active Court Cases
Media Reports
Media Reports
- Historic signing celebrated -
- Sucker Creek First Nation Gears Up for Indian Relay Races
- Indian Relay Races returns to High Prairie -
- Debut novel ‘Bad Cree’ has Sucker Creek Nation author living a dream
- Oil company seeks arrest of Woodland Cree First Nation chief
- The Wrap: Power of storytelling
- Smith: How Harold Cardinal helped lead a crucial rethinking of Indigenous relationships with Canada
- Mentorship pipeline connects students together to explore STEM pathways
- Indigenous Communities Acquire 40 Per Cent Interest in Award-Winning Alberta PowerLine
- Training program brings opportunity to Indigenous Albertans
- Harold Cardinal
- New animated film gives Lorne Cardinal another chance to use his voice for Indigenous actors
- Fourth cannabis store opens in Indigenous community in Alberta
- Police watchdog finds police used ‘reasonable’ force on man at Sucker Creek First Nation
- Sucker Creek promotes partners -
- Indian Relay Racing Set to Highlight Indigenous Celebration in Grande Prairie
- Alberta First Nations still lack consistent access to clean water
- Sucker Creek 'Bringing Our Children Home' -
- Alberta authors chosen for Audible Indigenous Writers' Circle
- Wisconsin changing 28 place names that slur Native American women
- First Nations sue Canada over child-welfare system's destruction of culture, language
- Razorback sucker
- ‘And they’re off – to the races!’ -
- First Nations, Métis settlements join forces for deal backed by Indigenous Opportunities Corporation
- 12 Indigenous communities sign 174 Million Dollar long-term economic benefit deal
- Radar search at northern Alberta residential school uncovers 88 suspected graves
- 'People are really struggling': Indigenous artists need financial and cultural support, survey says
- Funding from Alberta a stop-gap measure as Ottawa revisits First Nation policing
- Book review: Indigenous horror novel Bad Cree is a chilling tale of grief
- Harold Cardinal exposed White Paper's "thinly disguised" program of extermination
- Cree teen launches video project to inspire others to use their voice
- Indian Relay Races in High Prairie this weekend -
- Indigenous communities say proposed gas pipeline in Northeastern B.C infringes on their rights
- Alberta First Nations sue Ottawa over safety of drinking water
- Top Canadian Model, Linsay Willier-Kendall returns after a family centred career hiatus
- Top court rejects police officer's bid to appeal conviction for assault of First Nations man
- St. Bruno's Indian Residential School Ground-Penetrating-Radar Report Released
- ‘Empower our people’ – Willier -
- Lorne Cardinal
- Fewer people voted on-reserve in Alberta in last federal election compared to 2015, new data shows
- Alberta mother's battle puts spotlight on First Nations medical care rejections
- 88 potential unmarked graves located at former Canada Indian residential school
- NDP push to declare residential schools a genocide defeated in House
- Lorne Cardinal, the first Indigenous student admitted into the U of A’s acting program, wins August Schellenberg Award
- Students learn to survive in cold outdoors -
- Indigenous culture returns to rodeo -
- Aboriginal Lecture Series: Two Spirit and Indigenous Transgender Lecture
- Treaty 8 First Nations of Alberta Grand Chief and Deputy Grand Chief Sworn In
- Five Indigenous Nations, NuVista Energy invest to reduce green-house gas emissions
- Grand Canyon’s Native Fish
- The Wrap: Power of storytelling
- Students inspired to battle against the bully -
- New election looms as legal decision on previous election still not made
- Sucker Creek First Nation tackling first case of COVID-19 and a flood
- AFN National Chief and Alberta Premier ask feds for more First Nations policing funds
- Day camps promote Indigenous culture -
- Big Oil and Gas Want Them Out, But One Small Clan Is Standing Up to Pipeline Expansion
- Sucker Creek Nation member considers court challenge of custom election code
- Grand Canyon’s Native Fish
- Northern Lights recipient – Belinda Willier
- Métis firefighter seriously injured as wildland fires rage through the province
- Celebration of culture at McLennan -
- Why are some Indigenous people reluctant to vote in federal elections?
- Gathering inspires healing for victims -
- Unresolved: Joanne Ghostkeeper
- 'A war on Aboriginal children': Alberta's 25 residential schools
- Sucker Creek First Nation celebrates culture at pow wow -
- HPE students learn how to skin a beaver -
- Is ending boil-water advisories enough for First Nations? Why some are suing Ottawa for equality
- Treaty 8 First Nations want their own police force across northern Alberta
- 7 Indigenous communities buying stake in Wabamun-Fort McMurray power line
- Eagle feather given to RCMP -
- Three local teams win titles in Treaty 8 tourney -
- Wabasca, Loon River, Sturgeon Lake win Treaty 8 First Nations Cup titles -
- Aboriginal communities also protected -
- Feather accepted to honour Indigenous people -
- Jaret Cardinal
- From Class Clown to Actor, Director and Producer
- Sucker Creek Women's Shelter celebrates 25 years -
- Blanket exercise helps Aboriginals heal over time -
- Mentorship pipeline connects students together to explore STEM pathways - Sucker Creek First Nation students will learn foundational skills to evaluate drinking water safety in their community
- Alberta Indigenous Opportunities Corporation closes second largest deal with $150 million loan guarantee for 12 Indigenous communities
- Cree teen launches video project to inspire others to use their voice
- Indigenous groups acquiring stake in new transmission line through northern Alberta
- Two dead near Sucker Creek when semi crosses centre line strikes group of bikers
- Alberta, feds invest $70M to improve internet access for rural, Indigenous communities
- Special gift for a special man -
- Sucker Creek First Nation fighting battles on two fronts as floods and COVID-19 hit the community
- We’ve got new Trans Mountain data and we’re sharing it
- Indigenous war heroes recognized, honoured -
- New Alberta budget commits $6.9M for expanded First Nations police detachment
- Youth-led art project adds colour and vibrancy to Sucker River
- Jessica Johns's novel Bad Cree is a story about grief, guilt and healing — read an excerpt now
- A sucker for respecting native fishes
- Sucker River boy, 6, swept away by current drowns
- An introduced and a native vertebrate hybridize to form a genetic bridge to a second native species
- Sask. Indigenous Storytelling Month brings author Jessica Johns to North Battleford
- Alberta mother files judicial review of First Nations dental care for daughter
- First Nations, Métis Settlements invest in Clearwater oilfield -
- Pandemic worsening already dire northern suicide crisis, Lac La Ronge band councillor says
- Sucker Success Story
- Removing Dams from the Klamath River is a Step Toward Justice for Native Americans
- Indigenous authors rack up Youth Media Awards
- Indigenous Water Operators Share Experiences & Challenges Faced by Local Communities
- Indigenous NHLer Bear inspires youth -
- Palisade High School's endangered fish hatchery is helping restore the native razorback to Colorado rivers
- Province announces funding for Indigenous police forces
- Alberta First Nations hope tourism will bolster their bottom lines
- Federal policies undermine Indigenous dental health
- Treaty 8 Chiefs pushing for First Nations police service
- Indigenous market draws good crowd -
- Fisherman Catches Invasive Suckermouth Catfish in Rukni, locals concerned over reducing native population
- Accident claims 2 Redrum riders -
- Indigenous Dreams: The Literary Journey of Jessica Johns
- Alberta budget commits $6.9M for expanded First Nations police detachment in Lesser Slave Lake area
- Sucker Creek remembers missing, murdered -
- Sucker River celebrates Indian Days
- The “genocide” that failed
- Women 360: Forthright and tenacious, Sally Hausken is nature's passionate protector
- $750 thousand granted to Lesser Slave Lake Indian Regional Council by province
- Lakers, Stars, Caps win Treaty 8 titles -
- Lakers, Capitals, Oilers claim Treaty 8 titles -
- Garden River, Sucker Creek, Whitefish are the Treaty 8 champs -
- Castlegar's Idle No More rally sends strong message to govt.
- Fisherman Catches Invasive Suckermouth Catfish in Rukni, locals concerned over reducing native population
Academic Research
Academic Research
- Nipiih potability study integrating western scientific method and traditional knowledge through a mentorship pipeline.
- Nipiih (Water) quality study of the Lesser Slave Lake: Working together in science, engagement and youth outreach.
- Place Writing in the Root River Valley
- The Use and Cultural Importance of Suckers (Catostomidae Cope, 1871) among the Indigenous Peoples of Northwestern North America: An Ethnographic …
- The significance of creating First Nation traditional names maps
- The Art of Ceremony: Voices of Renewal from Indigenous Oregon
- Ajumawi fish traps: Harvesting and managing suckers in the springs of the Pit River drainage
- Management Plan for the Mountain Sucker (Catostomus platyrhynchus), Pacific populations, in Canada
- History of Fish Investigations in the Yadkin–Pee Dee River Drainage of North Carolina and Virginia with an Analysis of Nonindigenous Species and Invasion …
- Knowledge, use, and change in the Saskatchewan River Delta: assessing the changing livelihoods of Cumberland House Métis and Cree Nation
- Management Plan for the Mountain Sucker (Catostomus platyrhynchus), Pacific populations, in Canada
- Knowledge, use, and change in the Saskatchewan River Delta: assessing the changing livelihoods of Cumberland House Métis and Cree Nation
Expert Analysis