Brooke Metchewais, a Plains Cree woman from Cold Lake First Nations in Treaty 6, won Miss Indigenous Canada. [1] Heather Wolf Ear, from Siksika First Nations in Treaty 7, was runner-up. The New York Post's Saturday News of the World roundup, published at 2:11 p.m. PT, recorded 125 contestants. Judges scored an interview, an essay, a cultural presentation, and a scrapbook of community work.

A wire roundup will file the crown as color. The Saturday criteria are labor. A scrapbook of work done at home is not a swimsuit. Two Alberta women won on those terms.

The Post gave the result four sentences in a world-briefs column. [1] That is the divergence. The completed record is the names, the treaties, and the score sheet. A Canadian primary would have been better. Saturday's print is what the edition has.

The Post's Saturday column also filed Malaysia hiking rules, Australian penguin flu, a 97-year-old English wing-walker, and a Mexican admissions-exam redo. [1] Miss Indigenous Canada got four sentences in that pile. Brooke Metchewais and Heather Wolf Ear won on interview, essay, cultural presentation, and a scrapbook of work at home. That score sheet is the story the roundup treated as color.

Two named winners and a labor score sheet are enough for a brief. [1]

-- MAYA CALLOWAY, New York