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The first meeting of the League of Indian Nations in western Canada was held on the Keeseekoowenin Indian Reserve, circa 1920. The League of Indian Nations - modelled after the League of Nations, the precursor to the United Nations - was organized in eastern Canada by Native veterans that returned from World War I. The Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) attempted numerous times to disrupt the organization because the Canadian government had laws in place that made it a crime for Native people to organize politically and conduct political activities. According to local elders, the RCMP came to disrupt the meeting, but arrived the day after the meeting concluded and after all the delegates had already left.
The League of Indian Nations was reorganized in the 1950's to become the Federation of Saskatchewan Indian Nations.
