Free Press: Young Dynamo will chart ambitious course as Chief of Birdtail Sioux

April 18, 2025 —

Tréchelle Bunn [BA/23], currently a second-year law student at the University of Manitoba, was elected Chief of the Birdtail Sioux First Nation on April 10th.

Dr. Niigaan Sinclair describes the Nation’s political scene and the issues Bunn will have to address during her term. “She’s got her work cut out for her,” he writes.

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