By Shari Narine  Local Journalism Initiative Reporter Onion Lake Cree Nation filed legal papers in court April 13 challenging the Saskatchewan First Act, which received Royal Assent last week.   “We will not allow Saskatchewan to run roughshod over our treaties, our rights and our jurisdictions, over our lands and resources in the name of advancing (its) economic agenda while putting us aside,” said Onion Lake Okimaw Henry Lewis.   And Onion Lake is not standing alone.   Meadow Lake Tribal Council (MLTC) and the Federation of Sovereign Indigenous Nations (FSIN) have given their full support.   At the heart of the matter, said legal counsel Michael Marchen of Hladun and Co., is a law that asserts and confirms “Saskatchewan’s jurisdiction, but without any acknowledgement whatsoever that, under treaty, the

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