Band Council

• GOVERNANCE TYPE: Not Applicable
• TERM EXPIRES: 10/02/2027
• CHIEF: ELLEN LECAINE
• NUMBER OF COUNCIL MEMBERS:8
• ELLEN LECAINE
• DAVID OGLE
• LORETTA LETHBRIDGE
• TRAVIS OGLE
• ERIC LECAINE
• COLTEN OGLE
• STANLEY W LETHBRIDGE
• ANGELINE CRAIG

Contact Information

• BAND WEBSITE: http://www.sicc.sk.ca/bands/bwoodm.html
• PHONE NUMBER: (306) 266-2039
• FAX NUMBER: (306) 266-2024
• ADDRESS: PO BOX 1792, ASSINIBOIA, SK
• EMAILS:
• Chief ELLEN LECAINE:
• Councillor DAVID OGLE:
• Councillor LORETTA LETHBRIDGE:
• Councillor TRAVIS OGLE:
• Councillor ERIC LECAINE:
• Councillor COLTEN OGLE:
• Councillor STANLEY W LETHBRIDGE:
• Councillor ANGELINE CRAIG:
• General Band Office:
• Media Contact:
• Referrals Contact:
• Websites

Band 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
• 2006 - Wood Mountain20062007.pdf
• 2005 - Wood Mountain20052006.pdf
• 2004 - Wood Mountain20042005.pdf
• 2003 - Wood Mountain20032004.pdf
• 2001 - Wood Mountain20012002.pdf

Band Council Remuneration

• 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

Band Submissions

Consultation Reports

Band Owned Corporations

Downloadable Court Decisions

• Wood Mountain Lakota First Nation No. 160 v Goodtrack
• Goodtrack v. Canada (Attorney General)
• Wood Mountain Lakota v Goodtrack
• R. v. Wood Mountain (Village)
• William Goodtrack, et al. v. Wood Mountain Lakota First Nation No. 160
• Wood Mountain Lakota First Nation No. 160 v William Goodtrack and Edith Goodtrack

Active Court Cases

Media Reports

• 'Preoccupied' spotlights Native American art at the BMA
• Bard College Presents Returning Home: A Contemporary Native Photography Exhibition, on View April 6–12 at Montgomery Place Mansion
• Returning Home: A Contemporary Native Photography Exhibition
• Lakota artist Dana Claxton, whose work subverts assumptions about Indigenous identity, wins one of Canada’s top art prizes
• Rethinking the history of the Lakota of the Great Plains and challenging settler narratives
• Canada apologizes for labelling Dakota, Lakota second-class First Nations
• Canada apologizes to Dakota and Lakota nations for historic wrongs
• Forest Service funds help Indigenous families in the Mountain West heat their homes
• Early Days. Indigenous Art from the McMichael Canadian Art Collection
• The Magnificent Mountain Poplar
• New NHL collector cards shine light on Indigenous players
• On Beauty and Violence With Dana Claxton
• Missing Joe Wood
• Beautiful Mountain Flowers Featured on New Stamps
• Manitoba Man Charged with Killing 3 More Indigenous Women, House of Commons Rejects State of Emergency Request
• 25 Colorado schools still had Native American mascots. This week one finally decided to make a change.
• ‘The Night Watchman’ a new gem of a novel from Louise Erdrich
• Indigenous Elders Are at Risk of Freezing to Death Because Wood Is So Expensive
• 1 of the last fluent Lakota speakers in Canada worries about the future of the language
• native shrubs and small trees, with marc wolf of mountain top arboretum
• Native plants more at upcoming Mountain Maryland Festival
• Hamer Woodlands at Cove Mountain Preserve
• In Ecuador, Homes That Are Part of the Mountains
• Mountain Pine Beetle
• Wildlife and Climate Change
• After inhabiting Virginia land for 10,000 years, the Monacan Indian Nation finally receives federal recognition
• Bison and the power of partnerships
• Silent no more: Native communities call for end to crisis of missing and murdered indigenous women
• Kirk Goodtrack Obituary (2018) - Ottawa, SK - Assiniboia Times
• Tour through Tatawâw Park offers connections to area’s Lakota history
• Reclaiming Appalachia: A Push to Bring Back Native Forests to Coal Country
• 'Horses have healing power,' says organizer of 600km Indigenous youth ride
• Canada to formally apologize to 9 Dakota, Lakota Nations for historic designation as refugees
• Fighting to Save Their Tribe From Termination (Published 2020)
• The Winding Road to a PhD
• Hereditary Lakota Chiefs are livid about Publisher's $3.8 million land deal at Wounded Knee
• North America's largest Indigenous modern beadwork exhibit opens in Regina
• Southern OR Snowshoeing: Lake of the Woods and Local Sno-Parks
• Jane Goodall Plants Trees with WWF on Sas Mountain, Budapest
• New documentary hopes prayer will help children and adults find their way home
• Why Canadians need ‘the right to roam’
• Wood Mountain Lakota Nation set to vote on land claim deal
• Dana Claxton wants to change the way you think about indigenous women
• For Haida, this wooden chest represents the promise of a reunion with cultural treasures
• K'ómoks First Nation signs draft treaty with B.C., federal governments
• Norwegian Mountain Cottage Stands on Stilts to Preserve Native Reindeer Moss
• Whitecap Dakota First Nation signs framework agreement for treaty with Canada
• Indigenous activist joins MP Saganash on national tour to promote UNDRIP bill
• Strangers on the Mountain
• Gary LaPlante of Moosomin FN inducted as Knight of the Order of Saint George
• William Ricketts Sanctuary
• Ripe Turnips Moon
• Local Maker – Bob “Sqwey’its” Mitchell
• Large new B.C. provincial park created with First Nations
• Forest Service funds help Indigenous families in the Mountain West heat their homes
• Behind the Northwest Coast’s Ferociously Feminist Masks
• ‘A Wound That Is On the Mend’: Indigenous Art Today (Published 2023)
• The Astounding Origins of Chaco Canyon Timber
• In Pictures: The Indigenous town in Mexico living on remittances
• Native stones: Forgotten history in plain sight
• Cowan’s auction house returns indigenous war god sculpture to a Zuni Pueblo
• Promotion of Wabanaki cultural tourism gains momentum in Maine
• Firewood distributed to help Native families
• New Katahdin Woods visitor center aims to tell history through tribes
• Living culture: WCU undertakes project showcasing Cherokee heritage on campus
• The man who made Ecuador’s wooden Tigua masks famous
• The Talaandig Tribe Of The Southern Philippines Shows That Reforestation Takes A Village
• Following Norway’s National Painter Through a Landscape of Mountains and Fjords
• 6 Appalachian Folk Stories That Will Keep You Up at Night
• Natural wonder: Magical 'Dragon Tree' hidden in the woods of Appalachia
• Bison Bellows: Bison East of The Mississippi
• Star quilt and eagle feather remind Whitney Ogle of her roots
• When the smoke clears: Indigenous communities worry about connections to the land after wildfires
• How do we decolonize our mountain bike trails?
• Believing Bigfoot: Locals log Sasquatch evidence in North Carolina’s mountains
• Sacred sites battle on Biamanga mountain captured in rare book by Yuin tribal elder, photographer
• 15 Indigenous Artisans and Shops in Winnipeg to Shop For Christmas and Holiday Gifts
• National Parks of Canada
• First Nation sues Manitoba government, seeks to halt logging on traditional lands
• Native bee hive honours Indigenous Dreaming story of Jabreen the warrior
• University Honors Advocate for the Monacan Indian Nation With a Memorial Portrait
• Beyond Local: Tia Wood releases single and Alberta-filmed music video
• Exhibition celebrates Lakota history, Wood Mountain connections
• Beyond Local: Northern Alberta Sony-signed singer shoots music video in Saddle Lake
• GLOBAL INDIGENOUS: Protests, reforms and Aboriginal art
• Firewood banks expand access to affordable home heating for tribes
• Where Ticks Live
• Beyond Local: Northern Alberta Indigenous songstress signs with Sony Music
• Ice Patch Archeology in RMNP
• New visitor center to tell Katahdin Woods’ story through Native American eyes
• Wood Mountain Lakota reaches $50M land claims settlement with feds
• Indigenous Activists Assert Right to Unceded Land At Anti-Trump Protest
• A Novice’s Guide to Hiking Maine’s 100 Mile Wilderness
• WACA events in Crescent Park are lead-up to second annual Every Child Matters powwow
• Celebrate National Indigenous Peoples Day at home this weekend
• Parks Canada unveils new national Indigenous Stewardship Policy
• Jenni Monet: Bureau of Indian Affairs officer on leave after fatal shooting of Brandon Laducer
• National Indigenous People’s Day celebrated at Rockglen School
• A Short Introduction to Utah Native Trees
• ImmigrationMatters in Vancouver, British Columbia – Partnering with an Indigenous community to fight plastic pollution
• Indigenous coalition submits proposal to purchase Trans Mountain
• Fawn Wood and Brett Kissel win big at Junos
• First Nations-owned CCR Advances Forest Rehabilitation
• King of the mountain: For 20 years, a Lil’wat chief keeps a lonely vigil in the B.C. woods
• After the chainsaws, the quiet: Victoria’s rapid exit from native forest logging is welcome – and long overdue
• 10 Indigenous candidates elected to the House of Commons
• Osoyoos Indian Band Leads Vital Project To Mitigate Wildfire Threat
• Woodsmen Launches India's First Mountain Whiskey
• Mt Elgon indigenous trees; the sacred trees used for herbal medicines, face extinction
• Winners and losers in the recent Canadian federal election
• Tia Wood Will Always Carry The Rez With Her
• Indigenous Fire Practices Shape our Land
• Wabanaki Nations
• Palomar Mountain State Park
• Indigenous Colombians fret as sacred mountain glaciers melt
• Northern exposure: 'Coast to Coast to Coast' — a large-scale study of Canadian Native art — opens at the Albuquerque Museum
• Laramie Woods, Colorado State club leader and Indigenous athlete
• The Wrap: Indigenous Pulitzer Prize winners
• Forest enterprise in Mexico attempts to present opportunities for Indigenous communities
• What can we learn from Colombia’s remote Kogi people?
• In the Mountains: Cherokee culture has rich history and strong influence in Southern Appalachia
• Gardening with Oregon Native Plants West of the Cascades
• 5 Native Trees To Plant for Backyard Wildlife Habitat
• Selecting Native Plants for Home Landscapes in Central Oregon
• Green building meets Indigenous knowledge in Taos, New Mexico | Here & Now
• Developer: Mystery mounds will be protected if proof of indigenous culture
• Indigenous artist Joe Pekara shares his journey
• Autumn Olive: Your Invasive, Seedy Neighbor
• Canada’s Trans Mountain Pipeline Inches Forward, But Opposition Intensifies
• Kelseyville’s namesake slaughtered Native Americans. Should the town still bear his name?
• Southeast Chronicles: Kennesaw Mountain National Battlefield Park
• 50 Native American Baby Names
• Gopher Wood: The Mystery of the Ark’s Timber
• Archaeological Heritage of Colorado's Ute Tribe Part of National Forests' History in Rocky Mountain Region
• Texas’ Flowering Trees Take Seasonal Blooms to New Heights
• Rituals unite Mexico City’s original communities under a modern purpose
• The Ute utilize fire to renew landscapes
• Life on the Pine Ridge Native American reservation
• 8 Charming Mountain Towns in Mexico to Visit for Hiking, Crafts, and Incredible Food
• Ireland has lost almost all of its native forests – here’s how to bring them back
• Gordon Ramsay Treks the Mountains of Morocco
• HCMA embeds "Indigenous design principles" in British Columbia student housing
• Forest bathing: what it is and where to do it
• Don't miss the second annual 'Every Child Matters' Indigenous powwow at the WDM
• Alyeska Resort — Hotel Review
• Meet the 106-Year-Old Woman Keeping an Ancient Filipino Tattooing Tradition Alive
• Paths to New Hampshire’s Native Past
• Wood Ash Hominy: From Indigenous Nourishment to Southern Shame to Chef Secret
• Thoughts of a Thoughtful Man
• Mount Rainier History
• Non-native Invasive Plants - Great Smoky Mountains National Park (U.S. National Park Service)
• Native Wildlife Species in Colorado
• The Culture Of The Wiwa, An Indigenous Colombian Tribe In The Sierra Nevada
• Provincial funding gives new life to dead wood
• Parks Canada unveils new national Indigenous Stewardship Policy
• Mexico’s Zapatista rebels, 24 years on and defiant in mountain strongholds
• 3 First Nations, Manitoba government sign deal on 20-year forestry plan
• Baltimore Museum of Art ‘Indigenizing the Museum’
• Native Tree Expert Shares His Wisdom of the Woods
• Bounty of the Forests: The Plant Lore of Taiwan’s Indigenous Peoples
• After Pope called residential schools ‘genocide,’ House of Commons should too: NDP MP
• NAJA announces 2023 Native American Journalism Fellows
• Indoor Air Quality Issues for Rocky Mountain West Tribes
• New law prohibiting possession of most native reptiles, amphibians now in effect
• A pilgrimage for indigenous rights mobilizes faith communities in Canada
• 'Our way of keeping stories': Dakota elder can interpret Sitting Bull's painted robe on display in Regina
• Yukon could get new Indigenous protected area the size of Vancouver Island
• On patrol with the Indigenous Guards of Colombia
• Native stones: Forgotten history in plain sight
• Mountain pine beetle
• Dana Claxton - Gender, Sexuality, and Women's Studies
• A path of reconciliation
• How Clayoquot Sound’s War in the Woods transformed Tofino
• NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh makes housing promises with Indigenous candidates
• Native plants are perfectly suited to thrive in Poconos
• “Once and still upon this land (For Montgomery Place)”: A Poetry Reading with Bonney Hartley
• Bella Coola | Indigenous culture, Valley, Coast Mountains
• Witches, fairies and Bigfoot: Where to track cryptids and other creatures in the Poconos
• Traditional Wooden Snowshoes: Shapes, Designs, and Names
• Native stones: Forgotten history in plain sight
• Ready for the worst: Cherokee police receive toolkit to aid AMBER Alert response
• 40 Mountain House Plans For Your Vacation Home
• Review: Louise Erdrich’s 'The Night Watchman' a rich novel of Native American family, community
• Canada federal election: Canadians want reconciliation. Will the election deliver?
• What does native logging mean for mountain biking in Derby?
• Group walking historic trail from Swift Current to Fort Battleford
• Ginglani Distillers launch Woodsmen Whiskey, made from Mountain Water & Himalayan Malts
• 'Muyong' practice helps sustain Ifugao's wood carving industry

Academic Research

• Indigenous people reclaiming their mountains: A cross-cultural perspective
• Walter Wood and the legacies of science and alpinism in the St Elias Mountains
• Weaponizing maps: Indigenous peoples and counterinsurgency in the Americas
• Wood Mountain Walk: Afterthoughts on a Pilgrimage for Andrew Suknaski
• How words hook onto the world: a literary ethnography of Andrew Suknaski's Wood Mountain.
• The Monacan Nation Pow Wow: Symbol of Indigenous Survival and Resistance in the Tobacco Row Mountains
• The Journey to'Forked Mountain'
• Sacred mountains
• Changes in the distribution of indigenous forest in Table Mountain National Park during the 20th Century
• Forty Years within the Veil: The Black West and Counternarratives of Race and Place in the Rocky Mountains
• Weaponizing maps: Indigenous peoples and counterinsurgency in the Americas
• Weaponizing maps: Indigenous peoples and counterinsurgency in the Americas
• Sacred mountains
• Weaponizing maps: Indigenous peoples and counterinsurgency in the Americas
• Weaponizing maps: Indigenous peoples and counterinsurgency in the Americas
• Weaponizing maps: Indigenous peoples and counterinsurgency in the Americas
• Marketing the mountain man in Wyoming: settler memory, cosplay, and conservative fantasy
• Weaponizing maps: Indigenous peoples and counterinsurgency in the Americas
• Weaponizing maps: Indigenous peoples and counterinsurgency in the Americas
• Wood Mountain Walk and the Possibilities of Decolonization through Relationships with People and Land in Solo Walking Performance
• Weaponizing maps: Indigenous peoples and counterinsurgency in the Americas
• Weaponizing maps: Indigenous peoples and counterinsurgency in the Americas
• Weaponizing maps: Indigenous peoples and counterinsurgency in the Americas
• Weaponizing maps: Indigenous peoples and counterinsurgency in the Americas
• Look to the mountain: An ecology of indigenous education
• Weaponizing maps: Indigenous peoples and counterinsurgency in the Americas