The public should be on the look out for this stolen teepee. (Submitted photo/Tanner Tinker)

By Derek Cornet

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Teepee stolen from La Ronge’s Churchill Community High School

Oct 21, 2021 | 11:24 AM

A teepee was stolen overnight from the Churchill Community High School grounds in La Ronge.

It was erected on Wednesday as community school coordinator Tanner Tinker had planned to use it for cultural activities throughout the week. When he and other staff members arrived at the school Thursday, it was gone.

“I’ve been setting stuff up for my students for cultural events,” he said. “I’m having bannock on a stick, storytelling, drumming and smudging from Wednesday to Friday. That was originally the plan and we were going to rope it into the teepee. On Friday, our school is doing a Walk for Wendjack and we were going to do some teachings after our walk at the teepee.”

The teepee is described as white in colour, 10 feet high and wide with Velcro straps and brass grommets. The school was renting the teepee from local Elder Alex Halkett.

Tinker believes it was likely stolen by more than one person due to its size. He would like to see the teepee returned and anyone with information about it can contact La Ronge RCMP.

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“I feel like it’s really disrespectful,” Tinker said. “You’re stealing from an Elder, you’re stealing from the youth, the lessons that were supposed to go with it and everything. We can still do it, but to an extent. It’s very dishonouring and discouraging too, to try get stuff going like this and something like this happens.”

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