Cree chief pleads for help to end community's wave of violence in open letter to Sask. premier, PM
Leaders in a remote Saskatchewan community are calling out for help. They say residents in Pelican Narrows are living in fear daily because of drug-fuelled violence, stabbings, shootings and suicide, which are the result of historical injustice and geographic isolation.
![Cree chief pleads for help to end community's wave of violence in open letter to Sask. premier, PM](https://i.cbc.ca/1.7021355.1699392024!/fileImage/httpImage/image.jpg_gen/derivatives/16x9_620/pelican-narrows.jpg)
![Pelican Narrows has been under a state of emergency for about a year because of high crime rates. It's among the communities in northern Saskatchewan in a struggle with substance addiction and violent crime. a cross at the edge of a small bridge backgrounded by a Pelican Narrows community building](https://i.cbc.ca/1.7021355.1699392024!/fileImage/httpImage/image.jpg_gen/derivatives/16x9_620/pelican-narrows.jpg)
Leaders in a remote Saskatchewan community are calling out for help. They say residents in Pelican Narrows are living in fear daily because of drug-fuelled violence, stabbings, shootings and suicide, which are the result of historical injustice and geographic isolation.