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Indigenous Studies

The Indigenous Studies Program works to preserve the material culture of Saskatchewan with the goal of enhancing and celebrating knowledge about lifeways and worldviews through time. The Ethnology section actively engages in the preservation of Saskatchewan Indigenous objects including clothing and tools from the post contact period.

The repatriation and stewardship of Saskatchewan Indigenous sacred objects held in the Ethnology Reserve Collection of the museum is a recent and important addition to the program with the implementation of a new policy in January 2011.

If you have inquiries regarding objects under the stewardship of the Museum, please contact

✉ Curator of Indigenous Cultural Heritage | Bailey Monsebroten

Repatriation and Shared Stewardship

This policy for the care and repatriation of the sacred objects in the Ethnology Reserve Collection at the Royal Saskatchewan Museum has been built on the interests, needs and cultural perspectives of Indigenous peoples.

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The Royal Saskatchewan Museum and T.rex Discovery Centre are situated on Treaty 4 territory, the ancestral and traditional territory of the nêhiyawak, Anihšināpēk, Dakota, Lakota, and Nakoda, and the homeland of the Métis/Michif Nation. We respect and honour the Treaties that were made on all territories, we acknowledge the harms and mistakes of the past, and we are committed to moving forward in partnership with Indigenous Nations in the spirit of reconciliation and collaboration.