The Society for the Involvement of Good Neighbors, (SIGN) in Yorkton raised the Treaty 4 Flag at its facility on Broadway Street.
The ceremony was carried out on what is National Indigenous People's Day in Canada.
The Treaty 4 Flag will fly permanently with the Canadian, Saskatchewan and City of Yorkton flags.
Tribal Chief Isabel O'Soup of the Yorkton Tribal Council said the flag raising was an important event.
“It’s such a great honour,” she said, adding it was a great moment when Andrew Sedley, executive director of SIGN called with the idea.
O’Soup said the flag is a visible symbol of the co-operation needed moving forward, adding it is also part of the education process needed by both First Nations and non-Aboriginal.
“We’re all still learning,” she acknowledged at the ceremony today (Friday).
O’Soup said it is important to grow toward a new future.
“Us as First Nations people, we need to forgive. That’s a big thing for us ... Then we can move forward.”
O’Soup said while there is a need for reconciliation, and better understanding among all peoples, it is also important to remember “Canada is a great country, and we all make it great.”
Moving forward was a theme picked up on by Yorkton Councillor Mitch Hippsley who spoke on behalf of the City.
“We have to learn about our past so we can move forward,” he said, adding “we’re all in this together.
