{"id":452309,"date":"2026-02-04T01:22:08","date_gmt":"2026-02-04T01:22:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/452309\/"},"modified":"2026-02-04T01:22:08","modified_gmt":"2026-02-04T01:22:08","slug":"new-partnership-supports-indigenous-led-natural-resource-development","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/452309\/","title":{"rendered":"New partnership supports Indigenous-led natural resource development"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/a8bb832b-71e1-4819-97d5-7d0111377d38-2.jpg\" class=\"object-fit-cover\" alt=\"\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Creative Fire President Jordan Baptiste with Saskatchewan\u00a0First Nations Natural Resources Centre of Excellence President and CEO Sheldon Wuttanee. (Image Credit: Submitted\/Brett Bradshaw)<\/p>\n<p>By Nigel Maxwell<\/p>\n<p>Economic development <\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\t\tFeb 3, 2026 | 4:06 PM\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>A new freshly signed partnership promises to help strengthen support for Indigenous-led natural resource and critical mineral development in Saskatchewan.<\/p>\n<p>The Saskatchewan First Nations Natural Resources Centre of Excellence (the Centre) has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with Creative Fire.<\/p>\n<p>According to a media statement, the Centre has selected Creative Fire as a strategic partner to support Saskatchewan\u2019s 74 First Nations, with a focus on strengthening Indigenous leadership, representation, participation, and ownership across major resource and infrastructure projects.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis MOU is about\u00a0innovation\u00a0and readiness,\u201d said\u00a0Jordan Baptiste,\u00a0president, Creative Fire. \u201cIt supports First Nations leadership while creating clearer, more\u00a0meaningful\u00a0pathways for governments and industry to engage and do things right from the outset.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Creative Fire President Jordan Baptiste with Saskatchewan\u00a0First Nations Natural Resources Centre of Excellence President and CEO Sheldon Wuttanee.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":452310,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[49,48,295,66],"class_list":{"0":"post-452309","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-environment","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-environment","11":"tag-science"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/452309","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=452309"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/452309\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/452310"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=452309"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=452309"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=452309"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}