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By Brittany Hobson Tr\u00e9chelle Bunn has had a whirlwind month. She wrapped up her two-year tenure as one of the Southern Chiefs’ Organization youth chiefs, finished her second year of law school at the University of Manitoba and received an Indspire award for her work in Indigenous communities at a ceremony in Vancouver. Then an election held the day Bunn returned to Manitoba from B.C. put the young woman in the history books. On April 10, Bunn was voted in as chief of Birdtail Sioux Dakota Nation, marking the first time the community located near the Saskatchewan boundary has elected a female leader. At age 25, Bunn is also the youngest person elected as chief in her community and is believed to be one of the youngest sitting chiefs in… <\/p>\n

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By Brittany Hobson Tr\u00e9chelle Bunn has had a whirlwind month. She wrapped up her two-year tenure as one of the Southern Chiefs’ Organization youth chiefs, finished her second year of law school at the University of Manitoba and received an Indspire award for her work in Indigenous communities at a ceremony in Vancouver. Then an election held the day Bunn returned to Manitoba from B.C. put the young woman in the history books. On April 10, Bunn was voted in as chief of Birdtail Sioux Dakota Nation, marking the first time the community located near the Saskatchewan boundary has elected a female leader. At age 25, Bunn is also the youngest person elected as chief in her community and is believed to be one of the youngest sitting chiefs in... <\/p>\n

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