Betty Ann Adam: The Neil Stonechild case, decades later – Saskatoon StarPhoenix

In the years since I wrote these reflections on police treatment of Indigenous men, we’ve seen signs of progress, but also ongoing disheartening injustices.

Betty Ann Adam worked as a reporter with The StarPhoenix for nearly three decades and covered the Stonechild inquiry. On the 30th anniversary of Stonechild’s death, Adam has written an epilogue to this column, which was originally published in 2014.

Neil Stonechild. Rodney Naistus. Lawrence Wegner. Darrell Night.

These are names I’ll not forget.

They are as important to the story of Saskatoon and its relationship with Aboriginal people as Chief Whitecap and Gabriel Dumont, whose likenesses are cast in bronze statues that stand beside the South Saskatchewan River.