sik-si-ka | Siksika Nation
Community Profile
- The Siksika Nation is part of the Blackfoot Confederacy, with a rich cultural heritage and traditional lands in southern Alberta. They are known for their strong community connections and preservation of Blackfoot traditions.
- Last Updated 2025-04-25 19:02:13 UTC
- Name: Siksika Nation (ISC Code: 430)
- Former Names: Blackfoot First Nation, Blackfoot Reserve No. 146
- Band Style: First Nation
- Cultural Area: Prairie Region, Southern Alberta
- Indigenous Language: Blackfoot (Siksiká)
- Number of Registered Members: 7986
Governance
Band Council
- GOVERNANCE TYPE: Not Applicable
- TERM EXPIRES: 12/01/2025
- CHIEF: OURAY CROWFOOT
- NUMBER OF COUNCIL MEMBERS:13
- OURAY CROWFOOT
- HECTOR WINNIPEG
- CANDACE BACKFAT
- RUBEN BREAKER
- LOU SOLWAY
- CARLIN RABBIT
- KENDALL BONE
- IKE SOLWAY
- OWEN CRANEBEAR
- SAMUEL CROWFOOT
- STRATER CROWFOOT
- MARSHA COLLAR
- TRACEY MCHUGH
Contact Information
- BAND WEBSITE: http://www.siksikanation.com/index.html
- PHONE NUMBER: (403) 734-5100
- FAX NUMBER: (403) 734-5262
- ADDRESS: PO BOX 1100, SIKSIKA, AB
- EMAILS:
- Chief OURAY CROWFOOT:
- Councillor HECTOR WINNIPEG:
- Councillor CANDACE BACKFAT:
- Councillor RUBEN BREAKER:
- Councillor LOU SOLWAY:
- Councillor CARLIN RABBIT:
- Councillor KENDALL BONE:
- Councillor IKE SOLWAY:
- Councillor OWEN CRANEBEAR:
- Councillor SAMUEL CROWFOOT:
- Councillor STRATER CROWFOOT:
- Councillor MARSHA COLLAR:
- Councillor TRACEY MCHUGH:
- 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
- 2012 - Siksika Nation20122013.pdf
- 2011 - Siksika Nation20112012.pdf
- 2010 - Siksika Nation20102011.pdf
- 2008 - Siksika Nation20082009.pdf
- 2007 - Siksika Nation20072008.pdf
- 2006 - Siksika Nation20062007.pdf
- 2005 - Siksika Nation20052006.pdf
- 2004 - Siksika Nation20042005.pdf
- 2003 - Siksika Nation20032004.pdf
- 2002 - Siksika Nation20022003.pdf
- 2001 - Siksika Nation20012002.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
Lands and Traditional Territory
Reserves
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ISC Code: 6636
SIKSIKA INDIAN RESERVE NO. 146
71087.5 Hectares
80 KM E/E OF/DE CALGARY (BLACKFOOT 146)
[51.04473309999999, -114.0718831]
- Geographic Extent: Southern Alberta, primarily in Treaty 7 territory
- Key Locations: Includes lands around Calgary, extending to eastern Alberta
- Historical Land Use: Traditional hunting and gathering territories, with significant buffalo hunting grounds
- Current Land Occupancy: Primarily located on Siksika Reserve in southeastern Alberta
Consultations and Referrals
Band Submissions
Consultation Reports
Band Business Interests
Band Owned Corporations
Court Records
Downloadable Court Decisions
- Siksika First Nation v. Canada
- Lavallee v. Siksika Nation
- Knibb Developments Ltd. v. Siksika First Nation
- Siksika Nation v Crowchief
- Roy Little Chief v. Siksika Nation
- Many Guns v. Siksika Nation Tribal Administration
- Lavallee v. Siksika Nation
- Shield v. Siksika Nation Indian Council Band No. 430
- Siksika First Nation v. Alberta (Director Southern Region Environment)
- Siksika Nation v. Walji Holdings Limited
- Siksika Nation v. Canada (Solicitor General)
- Siksika First Nation and Blyth v. Director, Bow Region, Environmental Service, Alberta Environment, re: Town of Strathmore
- Siksika Nation Elders Committee and the Siksika Nation v. Director, Southern Region, Regional Services, Alberta Environment, re: Town of Strathmore
- Siksika Nation Elders Committee and the Siksika Nation v. Director, Southern Region, Regional Services, Alberta Environment, re: Town of Strathmore
- Siksika Nation Elders Committee and the Siksika Nation v. Director, Southern Region, Regional Services, Alberta Environment, re: Town of Strathmore
- Stay: Siksika Nation Elders Committee and the Siksika Nation v. Director, Southern Region, Regional Services, Alberta Environment, re: Town of Strathmore
- Banff National Park of Canada Siksika Nation Castle Mountain Land and Timber Claim Settlement Agreement Rent and Fee Remission Order
- Backfat Estate v. Siksika First Nation
Active Court Cases
Media Reports
Media Reports
- Siksika nation artist designs new stamp for the National Day of Truth and Reconciliation
- Sacred headdress handed over to Siksika Nation
- Siksika Nation unveils expanded water treatment plant, ensuring clean water access for growing community
- Ex-official speaks out about alleged racism at Indian Oil and Gas Canada
- National Museum of the American Indian Repatriates Two Objects to the Siksika Nation
- ‘In order to be healthy, you have to know who you are’
- Construction beginning on new 76-bed addiction treatment centre on Siksika Nation
- Smithsonian Museum repatriates sacred items to Siksika Nation
- Archaeology conference aims to centre Indigenous perspectives in work on ancestral sites
- Community Rallies to Support The Indigenous Grill After Vandalism at Siksika Nation Fair Pow Wow
- Advancing truth and reconciliation in health care: A commitment to healing and empowerment
- Dive Into Award-Winning Films for Indigenous History Month
- Missing Indigenous women's family still searching for answers 13 years later
- Alberta First Nation sues province over flood mitigation plans
- Construction begins for addictions recovery centre on Siksika Nation
- English museum to return headdress to Alberta's Siksika First Nation
- Construction begins on recovery community in Siksika First Nation
- Britain's Royal Albert Memorial Museum returns artefacts to Siksika First Nation
- The Blackfoot Wisdom that Inspired Maslow’s Hierarchy
- Smithsonian Repatriates Sacred Items to the Siksika Nation
- Native American headdress returned to original owners today in handover ceremony
- Racism, discrimination may lead to First Nations patients leaving emergency rooms: Alberta study
- How a ranch on the Siksika First Nation became a destination for people seeking hope
- ‘Spirit Helper’ empowers aspiring Indigenous nurses
- Indigenizing Fashion with Amber-Dawn Bear Robe
- Applications open for Indigenous-led projects grant
- The City of Lethbridge is partnering with the Kainai, Piikani and Siksika Nations and the Lethbridge and Area Métis to develop a Heritage Site Management Plan
- Can You Apologize to an Entire Indigenous Nation?
- Siksika Nation to build on-reserve continuing care centre with funds from province
- Preserving, remembering the Siksika Nation > Air Force > Article Display
- Siksika Nation Fair Powwow hosted at Memorial Arbour
- Sacred items returned to Siksika Nation after 144 years in U.K. museum
- Siksika Nation, law firm investigating 'overwhelming' reports of racism in Alberta healthcare
- 'Long live Indian Cowboys': APTN series, Amplify, shines light on country music and horse culture on Siksika Nation
- Photos: Calgary Stampede crowns a new First Nations Princess
- CIFF: Documentary follows young Siksika Nation woman competing in one of the most dangerous horse races in the world
- Ottawa signs $1.3 billion settlement with Siksika Nation
- Siksika Nation in southern Alberta to take over RCMP duties with own police service
- Siksika Nation, Alberta’s doctor regulatory body commit to ending racism in health care
- Siksika Nation members accept $1.3B settlement after land unlawfully surrendered
- Siksika Nation and Alberta physicians sign agreement to address racism, discrimination
- Family’s roots are deep in the soil of Siksika Nation
- Siksika Nation, Blackfoot Confederacy files lawsuit against Federal Government
- Royal Albert Memorial Museum returns sacred items to Siksika Nation
- Federal government failing Indigenous communities on housing, policing: AG report
- Siksika elder and well-known activist for Indigenous communities dies
- Exeter to repatriate Blackfoot regalia to Siksika Nation
- Photos: Calgarians gather in recognition of National Indigenous Peoples Day
- ‘A funeral every week’: Drug deaths prompt protest on Siksika First Nation
- Siksika Nation and CPSA Sign Historic Memorandum of Understanding
- Siksika Nation artist Adrian Stimson takes a unique look at Calgary Stampede history with U of C map project
- Siksika Nation building 3D printed housing for members at risk of homelessness
- This First Nation in Alberta is fighting climate change with rows and rows of trees
- Siksika Nation female relay racer takes center stage at CIFF
- Southern Alberta First Nations file human rights complaint over supports for disabled adults
- Rare white bison calf born to Siksika nation rancher a 'sign of hope'
- First Nations launch legal challenge to coal mining on Alberta's Eastern Slopes
- Iniskim Umaapi: Is this Canada's 'Stonehenge'?
- Native American Headdress Set to be Returned to Blackfoot Homeland After Century in UK Museum
- Smithsonian Museum repatriates sacred objects to Siksika Nation
- Tragic death of Siksika woman leads to complaint filed with Alberta Human Rights Commission
- How a sacred rock found its way back to its original stewards
- Siksika Nation to get self-administered police service
- PM signs historic land claim settlement with Siksika First Nation
- Siksika on a bold new path to implementing a full justice system
- Siksika delegation builds relationships in the UK as repatriation of cultural, sacred items begins
- New bylaw prosecutor's office on Siksika Nation believed to be first of its kind in Canada
- Siksika Nation offering hayrides, Indigenous history experience in Banff this weekend
- A young Siksika woman races in the competitive Indian Relay, in documentary at San Diego Film Festival
- Strathmore and Siksika Nation athletes competing in 2023 North American Indigenous Games
- Siksika Nation building new on-reserve continuing care centre with money from province
- Siksika Nation pays tribute to residential school survivors with convoy on Canada Day
- Alberta RCMP still investigating 2011 disappearance of Indigenous woman
- Siksika Nation's Calgary Stampede First Nations Princess goes international
- Beyond Local: Siksika to see construction of 3D printed transitional housing
- Siksika to establish 1st First Nations prosecutor’s office
- Run As One Music Festival look to inspire Siksika youth to greatness
- Moments Fest to feature 40 bands and launch new Indigenous record label
- Aitamaako'tamisskapi Natosi: Before the Sun highlights Indigenous female empowerment on horseback
- Siksika Nation receives funds to continue developing its own police service
- Siksika Nation member files human rights complaint against Alberta Health Services
- Beaten for speaking Blackfoot at residential school, this Siksika woman now teaches it in the same building
- ‘I do see the tide turning’: Siksika First Nation signs $1.3B land claim with feds
- Roy Little Chief, Siksika politician and advocate for Indigenous rights, dead at 81
- Physicist Corey Gray finds threads that connect Einstein and his own Blackfoot heritage
- Siksika Nation welcomes man running across Canada to raise awareness for MMIWM
- Siksika man lodges human rights complaint against Alberta hospital after wife’s death
- Students learn to conduct archeology in respectful way on Siksika reserve
- Blackfoot Confederacy lodges human-rights complaint against Indigenous Services Canada
- Siksika Nation mourns passing of former chief Roy Little Chief
- First Nations doctor wants more action following summit on anti-Indigenous racism in health care
- AB Artist Feature Armond Duck Chief From Siksika Nation
- The heart of Siksika Nation: Blackfoot Crossing Historical Park welcomes all
- Siksika graduate student named 2022 Calgary Stampede First Nations Princess
- Siksika's own Alayiah Wolf Child on being the Calgary Stampede First Nations Princess
- Siksika Nation struggles to keep roads passable in wake of flooding
- Siksika man files human rights complaint against Alberta Health Services, hospital
- Canadian Siksika nation artist's work to be displayed at British Museum
- How to increase Blackfoot fluency? Knowledge keeper says create immersive programs
- Land Acknowledgement
- Siksika's Settlement: Truth, Justice and Education in Action
- ‘Every Child Matters’ Hitmen Hockey Game inspires and educates attendees
- Siksika Nation Approves $1.3-Billion Settlement With The Feds
- Siksika Nation marks Remembrance Day with ceremony, veterans powwow
- English museum to return headdress to Alberta's Siksika First Nation
- Sacred Blackfoot Headdress returning to Siksika after 124 years
- Blackfoot Crossing museum recognized for repatriations, cultural preservation
- Siksika on a bold new path to implementing a full justice system
- Ground breaks at future continuing care centre on Siksika Nation
- New Mobile Application Released for Siksika Nation Membership Will Enable Band Communications Canada-Wide.
- 'Dark Winds' actor helps First Nations students get into film industry through college course
- Ancestors of the Blackfoot
- Siksika Nation marks Remembrance Day with ceremony, veterans powwow
- Assembly of First Nations and Alberta Premier make joint statement on Indigenous policing
- Siksika pursues litigation against province for Ghost Dam decision
- Major historical claim settlement with Siksika Nation
- Alberta First Nation sues province over flood mitigation plans
- Siksika Nation moves toward policing its own people again
- Indigenous artist finds healing with murals at Alberta Catholic schools
- Town of Strathmore honours Siksika Day yesterday
- 'They're thinking out of the box': Siksika First Nation, other Indigenous communities, welcome new businesses
- Siksika Nation encouraging First Nations peoples to share stories of racism in Alberta health care
- Siksika First Nation, Blood Tribe declare states of local emergency as COVID-19 spreads in southern Alberta
- Siksika Nation signs deal with province for addiction recovery centre
- Siksika Nation members accept $1.3B settlement after land unlawfully surrendered
- Siksika Nation signs new deal with Ottawa with focus on renewing relationship
- Moving forward for Siksika Nation leaders means prayer, education and TRC calls to action
- Siksika Nation Partners Up With Calgary Zoo
- Siksika on a bold new path to implementing a full justice system
- Celebrating National Indigenous Peoples Day
- Kainai, Siksika Nations object to coal company’s depiction of consultation
- Flames Host Indigenous Celebration | Calgary Flames
- Siksika nation artist designs new stamp for the National Day of Truth and Reconciliation
- Alberta First Nation angered over lack of consultation in dam decision
- Alberta Indigenous Filmmaker Excited About New Short Film - Bridge City News - February 3, 2025
- 1910: Magnificent portraits of First Nations people of Alberta
- Siksika Health Services host the College of Physicians & Surgeons of Alberta for inaugural visit to expand partnership and address discrimination in health care
- First Nations say communication, proactivity key in successful management of COVID-19
- Siksika nation artist designs new stamp for the National Day of Truth and Reconciliation
- Indigenous-led museum wins provincial award for social responsibility
- New Indigenous Guardians project aims to preserve sacred southern Alberta land
- National Museum Of The American Indian Repatriates Two Objects To Siksika Nation
- Siksika Nation wants go ahead from Ottawa on police force
- New film documents Siksika woman’s journey competing in male-dominated horse races
- High-risk rapid housing on the way for Siksika Nation
- Construction begins for Recovery Centre on Siksika Nation
- Construction begins on recovery community in Siksika First Nation
- New Blood workshop in Strathmore: students invited to join production
- First Nations Items Repatriated To Siksika Nation
- PM Trudeau signs historic $1.3B land claim settlement with Siksika First Nation
- Blackfoot Confederacy files human rights complaint against Indigenous Services Canada
- Siksika man files human rights complaint against Alberta Health Services, hospital
- Siksika business supports Ukraine with a centuries-old connection
- Beyond Local: Archeology and culture collide during Siksika Nation field program
- Siksika Nation collecting reports of discrimination at Alberta hospitals
- Siksika Nation collecting ‘complaints’ about Alberta’s health system
- New Housing on Siksika Nation aims to keep youth on reserve
- Siksika First Nation $1.3B land claim settlement addresses injustices of the past
- Unnatural Disasters
- ‘We’re trying to make our nation safe’: Alberta Siksika First Nation to form independent police force
- Siksika Nation is receiving federal funding to enrich Indigenous tourism experiences
- 'Building a brighter future for Siksika Nation': memorandum signed for rehab facility
- Siksika runner channels Billy Mills's Olympic upset in pursuit of Tokyo 2020
- Siksika celebrates the opening of new hotel and conference centre
- Siksika Nation rallies against government over placement of children in non-Indigenous foster homes
- Siksika Nation becomes first reserve in Alberta to endorse home ownership
- Siksika Nation is receiving federal funding to enrich Indigenous tourism experiences
- Calgary’s Hitmen, Siksika Nation launch Every Child Matters hockey game
- Calgary Stampede First Nations Princess says she’ll use her role to tell Blackfoot stories
- Hitmen Club donates $15,000 to Siksika Nation
- Alberta's physician regulator commits to 'meaningful change' for Indigenous patients
- Siksika Mourns Loss Of Former Chief And Indigenous Rights Advocate
- Ottawa rights a wrong from the past with a $1.3 billion land settlement for Siksika
- Calgary Hitmen teams up with Siksika Nation for 5th Every Child Matters game
- Siksika Nation hires Calgary law firm to create prosecutor's office to enforce by-laws
- ‘Comprehensiveness’ of Siksika Nation’s COVID-19 response has helped control outbreak
- Blackfoot Confederacy flag raised in Lethbridge to mark National Indigenous Peoples Day
- Stampeders game to be broadcast in Blackfoot language
- Ground breaks at future continuing care centre on Siksika Nation
- Siksika Nation to start administering Moderna vaccine to Elders Lodge, first responders Friday
- Siksika on a bold new path to implementing a full justice system
- Trudeau to visit Siksika Nation in Southern Alberta for signing ceremony
- Reconciliation with Siksika Nation on Castle Mountain settlement complete
- 'Long overdue': Siksika Nation reclaim land at Castle Mountain
- Siksika Nation encouraging First Nations peoples to share stories of racism in Alberta health care
- Custody battle over Indigenous children ignites cultural tug of war
- Siksika Nation's Alayiah Wolf Child and Sarah Lambros are the 2023 Calgary Stampede Princesses!
Academic Research
Academic Research
- … place, envisioning a landscape, empowering a people: the story of developing a community venture with the Siksika Nation Youth Entrepreneurial Development …
- Preparing Our Home by reclaiming resilience: Lessons from Lil'wat Nation, Siksika Nation and Mohawk Nation at Akwesasne, Canada
- Oral tradition is alive and well: Living literature in the siksika (blackfoot) community
- First Nations Pedagogical Policy and Practice in Western Canada: A Case Study
- LT3-Part II-Action for Social Justice: Truth and Reconciliation
- 'We Are Key Players…': Creating Indigenous Engagement and Community Control at Blackfoot Heritage Sites in Time
- The Right to Possess Memory: Winter Counts of the Blackfoot, 1830–1937
- Blackfoot Crossing Historical Park and Siksika Nation
- SOCIAL AND CULTURAL IMPACTS OF THE 2013 BOW RIVER FLOOD AT SIKISKA NATION, ALBERTA, CANADA.
- Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs and Blackfoot (Siksika) Nation Beliefs| Rethinking Learning
- A First Nations framework for emergency planning: A community-based response to the health and social effects from a flood
- First Nations and Aboriginal Rights
- Russlaender and Siksika Encounters: Privilege, Race, and Intercultural Connections at Namaka Farm.
- Indigenous peoples of Alberta
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