In August 2007, One Arrow's body was exhumed from the St. Boniface Cathedral cemetery and returned to Saskatchewan for a traditional burial (stone marker front left) on the reserve. Bill Waiser / Supplied photo

Opinion: The case for the exoneration of Chief One Arrow

Canada needs to exonerate Chief One Arrow and apologize to the One Arrow community. It’s not a question of why, but when?

By Tricia Sutherland & Bill Waiser (MA'76, PhD'83, DLITT'10), Saskatoon StarPhoenix
This past May, on a glorious spring day, the Poundmaker exoneration ceremony was held atop a hill at the Poundmaker First Nation.

Liberal Prime Minister Justin Trudeau offered a heartfelt apology for the wrongful conviction of Cree Chief Poundmaker for treason-felony in the aftermath of the 1885 North-West Rebellion.


It was a deeply moving event, an important step on the road to reconciliation.

But there need to be other public ceremonies to correct the historical record and, more importantly, absolve other bands and their chiefs of disloyalty in 1885.

One Arrow, a Willow Cree leader, is certainly deserving of an apology.

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