{"id":11474,"date":"2025-08-19T11:55:01","date_gmt":"2025-08-19T11:55:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gangsterismout.com\/?p=11474"},"modified":"2025-08-21T16:53:00","modified_gmt":"2025-08-21T16:53:00","slug":"poundmaker-cree-nation-in-audit-crosshairs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gangsterismout.com\/?p=11474","title":{"rendered":"Poundmaker Cree Nation in audit crosshairs"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\nInformed sources say Chief Duane Antoine (duane@poundmakercn.ca) travels to Phoenix where he has a home and spends his time racing horses. He travels back and forth between Phoenix and the Poundmaker reserve. That likely explains his $41k in travel expenses. Its said he cheats on his wife, often with the girls working for him in the band council office. He plays risky games because his wife is the financial person on the reserve who tracks all the cash flowing through the books for their benefit. Chief Duane Antoine is particularly generous with the band’s former money when elections approach.<\/p>\n

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\nIndigenous Services Canada is conducting a forensic audit at Poundmaker Cree Nation in Saskatchewan, making it the third into First Nations spending made public in the province since 2024. The audit will examine spending on federally funded programs over the last seven years, with a focus on social assistance, education and Jordan’s Principle. The band has 1281 members with 505 living on the reserve according to wikipedia. The reserve \u00a0is northwest of North Battleford.\u00a0 A website discloses less than nothing. Here<\/a>. Long-time Poundmaker Chief Duane Antoine said the nation has no comment. His base salary in 2023 was $94,094 with $41,572 in ‘travel’ and $19,500 ‘other’. There is an item for $176,550 called ‘business’. Here<\/a>. He likely doesn’t pay taxes.<\/p>\n

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\nIn 2015, a Poundmaker councillor called for a forensic audit after a ballot box was burned during a disputed by-election. In 2013 a criminal trial resulted in chief Duane Antoine and several members of Poundmaker Cree Nation council being spanked for stealing money. None went to jail.<\/p>\n

The recently re-elected Chief Duane Antoine was sentenced to 20 months probation, community service and ordered to pay $2,500. The same for his brother, former chief Teddy Antoine who was also ordered to pay back the $2,500 he stole. Coun. Colin Favel was ordered to repay more than $12,000. Both Favel and Antoine admitted to stealing treaty money from the band. There weren’t alone.
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\nThe grand chief of the Cree Nation is Norman A. Wapachee. He appears to have recently cleaned off his facebook page. A June 2025 report in a local Prince Alberta-based local news outlet\u00a0said the FSIN audit’s initial findings raised questions about $20 million in spending.\u00a0 Some Poundmaker members have sought answers about missing money for years. In 2001, Feds ordered an audit at Poundmaker but the band office was destroyed by fire the evening before the audit was to begin.
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\nChief Duane Antoine with Trudeau and former indigenous minister Carolyn Bennett in 2019.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Informed sources say Chief Duane Antoine (duane@poundmakercn.ca) travels to Phoenix where he has a home and spends his time racing horses. He travels back and forth between Phoenix and the Poundmaker reserve. That likely explains his $41k in travel expenses. Its said he cheats on his wife, often with the girls working for him in […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11475,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_crdt_document":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[435,441,436,437],"class_list":["post-11474","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-chief-duane-antoine","tag-duanepoundmakercn-ca","tag-norman-a-wapachee","tag-poundmaker-cree-nation"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/gangsterismout.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/poundmaker-cree-nation-sign.avif","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gangsterismout.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11474","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gangsterismout.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gangsterismout.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gangsterismout.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gangsterismout.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11474"}],"version-history":[{"count":26,"href":"https:\/\/gangsterismout.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11474\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11644,"href":"https:\/\/gangsterismout.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11474\/revisions\/11644"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gangsterismout.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/11475"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gangsterismout.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11474"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gangsterismout.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11474"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gangsterismout.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11474"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}