Blue Quills First Nation is an Indian reserve shared by the Beaver Lake Cree , Cold Lake , Frog Lake , Heart Lake , Kehewin Cree , and Saddle Lake Cree First Nations in Alberta , located within the County of St. Paul No. 19 . It is 3 kilometers west of St. Paul .
5-741: It is the site of Canada's only Indigenous-owned post-secondary institution, University nuhelotʼįne thaiyotsʼį nistameyimâkanak Blue Quills . 59°08′14″N 112°25′53″W / 59.1371°N 112.4314°W / 59.1371; -112.4314 ( Blue Quills First Nation ) This article about an Indian reserve in Alberta is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . University nuhelot%CA%BC%C4%AFne thaiyots%CA%BC%C4%AF nistameyim%C3%A2kanak Blue Quills University nuhelot’įne thaiyots’į nistameyimâkanak Blue Quills (University nn Blue Quills, formerly Blue Quills Education Centre and Blue Quills First Nations College (BQFNC) )
10-532: Is a First Nations owned and operated university in Canada, the first of its kind in the country. The university is jointly owned by seven First Nation band governments : Beaver Lake , Cold Lake , Frog Lake , Whitefish Lake , Heart Lake , Kehewin , and Saddle Lake . The university is not provincially chartered, unlike all other universities in Alberta but instead incorporated by federal statute. The institution
15-556: The efforts of its members to provide quality adult and higher education, controlled entirely by people of the First Nations. The university hosts an annual cultural camp in May. BQFNC was the first Indigenous controlled and operated post secondary educational institution in Canada. The brick school was built in 1931 on Blue Quills First Nation Indian Reserve and operated as a Blue Quills Indian Residential School until 1970. In July 1970 it
20-619: Was founded as an Indian residential school in the 1930s before being occupied by a protest movement in 1970 and then transferred to indigenous control in 1971. It was declared a university on September 1, 2015. Blue Quills is a member of the National Association of Indigenous Institutes of Higher Learning and the First Nation Adult and Higher Education Consortium, a non-profit organization in Western Canada , which coordinates
25-525: Was taken over by community members through peaceful protest and occupation. Negotiations with then Minister of Indian Affairs , Jean Chrétien , took place and agreement was signed on July 31, 1970, transferring the operations of Blue Quills to the Native Education Council. The Blue Quills First Nation College ( Blue Quills Education Centre ) opened in September 1971. In November 2000, the college
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