13 Communities and Tribal Councils attended the Summer Games including Agency Chiefs Tribal Council (ACTC), Battleford Agency Tribal (BATC) Battleford Tribal Council (BTC), Beardys, File Hills Qu'appelle Tribal Council (FHQTC), Meadow Lake Tribal Council (MLTC), Team Onion Lake (OLCN) Prince Albert Grand Council (PAGC), Saskatoon Tribal Council (STC), Southeast Treaty 4 Tribal Council (SET4TC), Touchwood Agency Tribal Council (TATC), Team Woodland (Team Woodland) and the Yorkton Tribal Council (YTC) On August 13, The Honorable Chuck Strahl, Minister of Indian Affairs and Northern Development and Assembly of Nations Chief Shawn Atleo attended the closing ceremonies of the 2009 Saskatchewan First Nation Summer Games.
North-South Divide The dominant First Nations business success stories in the province have tended to be located in northern Saskatchewan, featuring players such as the Meadow Lake Tribal Council and Prince Albert Grand Council, which joined forces to acquire a majority interest in Saskatoon-based WestWind Aviation.
Ray Ahenakew, the head of the Saskatchewan Indian Institute of Technology and former chief executive of the Meadow Lake Tribal Council, is an elder statesman of the province's First Nations business community.
Six government ministers and First Nations leaders from Prince Albert Grand Council (PAGC) and the Meadow Lake Tribal Council (MLTC) held a historic summit in October.
Weinstein and Campbell both sit on the oil-sands sub-committee of the Northern Labor Market committee, with Weinstein representing Lac La Ronge's Kitsaki Management Limited Partnership and Campbell representing the Meadow Lake Tribal Council.
The other clubs that took part were Saskatoon Tribal Council, Prince Albert Grand Council, South East Treaty #4 Tribal Council, Yorkton Tribal Council, Battlefords Tribal Council, Agency Chiefs Tribal Council, Meadow Lake Tribal Council, Touchwood Agency Tribal Council and Onion Lake First Nation.