Our Indigenous Advisory Committee

Angela Daigneault

Angela Daigneault  (she/her/hers) is a proud urban Métis-Ukrainian woman born and raised in Saskatoon with roots in Île-à-la-Crosse and Outlook, Saskatchewan. She has a passion for community development, advocacy and peacemaking.  Her 17-year social work career has focused on community and relationship building, mainly in the not-for-profit sector. For six years she worked for the Saskatoon Police Service as their Indigenous Relations Consultant, helping to strengthen relations between the community and the service. Currently she is the Indigenous Inclusion Consultant with the City of Saskatoon's Community Development department. She enjoys spending her downtime with family, especially her nephews and nieces, dabbling in creative arts and enjoying nature with her dogs.

Elder Evelyn Linklater

Evelyn Linklater is from Pelican Narrows, Peter Ballantyne Cree Nation in Northern Saskatchewan. She is a spiritual, wisdom-filled, family-oriented leader and Elder. She is a Certified Nurses' Aide, a Kookum (grandmother) and Chapan (great-grandmother). Evelyn has lost her mother, a brother and a sister to diabetes complications, and her volunteer work with the Canadian Diabetes Association is in honour of them. Evelyn lives with type 2 diabetes herself. In addition to the training provided by the Canadian Diabetes Association, she and Florence Highway received the association's National Volunteer of the Year Award in 2011.

Evelyn is a Community Elder who embraces the volunteerism that supports so many in communities all over Saskatchewan. Evelyn She is an Elder at the Saskatoon Indian and Métis Friendship Centre, the West Side Community Clinic, and the University of Saskatchewan among many other community groups and organizations, as well as sitting on the Chief's Advisory Committee of the Saskatoon Police Service. 

Elder Florence Highway

Florence Highway is from Pelican Narrows, Peter Ballantyne Cree Nation in Northern Saskatchewan, but she has been a part of the Saskatoon community for 20 years.

Florence is a trailblazing woman and a fighter! The pain and anguish of the residential school system eventually led her to the path of social work, and she now has 27 years' experience in that field. She lost her husband to diabetes complications and she herself lives with type 2 diabetes. In 2006, she was approached to volunteer as a presenter and community connector for the Canadian Diabetes Association. Since that time, she has received certification in Fitness, Food & Fun, and Kitchen Training. 

Florence is a Community Elder who embraces the volunteerism supporting so many in communities all over Saskatchewan. She is an Elder at the Saskatoon Indian and Métis Friendship Centre, the West Side Community Clinic and the University of Saskatchewan among many other community groups and organizations, as well as sitting on the Chief's Advisory Committee of the Saskatoon Police Service. In her free time Florence enjoys bead work, reading and travel.

Lyndon J. Linklater

Lyndon Linklater is a traditional knowledge keeper and storyteller. He has an educational background in Indian Social Work and Indian Studies, with some law. He is a citizen of the Thunderchild First Nation (Plains Cree) in Treaty 6 and has roots in Couchiching First Nation in Fort Francis, Ontario, in Treaty 3.

Currently, Lyndon shares work at the Remai Modern art museum in Saskatoon as their Indigenous Relations Advisor, providing advice to their board and staff and delivering cultural programming. He is the longest-serving member of the Office of the Treaty Commissioner’s Speakers’ Bureau, appointed in 2000. Over the years, he has spoken to tens of thousands of people, delivering awareness and enlightenment on the Treaty and First Nation worldview.

Lyndon is a powerful storyteller who utilizes First Nation teachings that involve knowledge of ceremonies and mixes in humour to deliver a poignant message.