David Ahenakew, former Chief of the Assembly of First Nations (AFN) died this past weekend in Shellbrook Hospital, he was 76. He helped create the Saskatchewan Indian Cultural College (Centre) in 1972 and was one of the first board members of the Saskatchewan Indian Federated College, now known as the First Nations University of Canada (FNUC), when it was established in 1976. Lawyer Doug Christie said he will remember him as an intelligent man who worked hard to improve the lives of Aboriginal people.