Yellow Quill is a Saulteaux First Nation located approximately 300kms east of Saskatoon, Saskatchewan and 12kms east of Rose Valley, Saskatchewan. Yellow Quill First Nation is a signatory of Treaty No. 4, which was signed by Chief Yellow-quill on August 24, 1876.
Yellow Quill is home to 2,800 registered band members of whom roughly 800 reside on-reserve with remaining membership dispersed mostly in the urban cities of Regina and Saskatoon and urban centres outside Saskatchewan.
The land base of Yellow Quill is composed primarily of four Reserves:
- 14,477 acres serve as the main Reserve, containing the community of Yellow Quill, Saskatchewan;
- 160 acres are associated with Yellow Quill Indian Reserve 90-8;
- 480 acres are associated with Yellow Quill Indian Reserve 90-18; and
- 92 acres are associated with Treaty Four Reserve Grounds (Indian Reserve 77), which is shared with 32 other First Nations
