Sheila North knows she has taken on the onerous task of trying to mend the troubled relationship between Winnipeg police and the Indigenous community, but said she’s up for the challenge.

“We have a lot of work to do,” she said at a news conference Tuesday in which she was named the first external Indigenous relations adviser for the Winnipeg Police Service.

North, who may be best known for working as a television reporter in Winnipeg, was the grand chief of the northern Manitoba chiefs organization, Manitoba Keewatinowi Okimakanak, from 2015 to 2018 and was most recently executive director of external Indigenous relations at the University of Winnipeg.

“I, myself, have had really good experiences with Winnipeg police — I’ve felt protected many times, I’ve felt helped many times — but I

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