Band members of the Star Blanket Nation unanimously voted in favour of this plan during a 2008 referendum.

The university designed special programs in partnership with Aboriginal communities to meet the human resource needs of Aboriginal communities in areas such as health, education and the environment – examples include its National School of Dental Therapy, Nursing and Health Studies programs.

FNUniv offers a comprehensive career services program to meet the vocational problems of Aboriginal students.

Like the other federated colleges of Luther and Campion, FNUniv students may utilize all of the U. of R. facilities (libraries, book stores, clubs, parking, labs, etc.)

The association demanded the university establish full independence from the Federation of Saskatchewan Indian Nations within a year.

Changes made relating to academic freedom, governance and political autonomy were reported to be reason for the censure vote.

[29] In January 2009, Shauneen Pete was dismissed from her position as Vice-President of Academics for what the university administration said was an internal personnel matter.

[31][32] Two former employees of the institution, Janet Lee Kurtz and Wesley Robert Stevenson, were charged with defrauding the university of the amounts of $21,000 and $15,000 respectively.

[36] FNUniv officials also missed another series of deadlines to file various reports, which led the federal government to withhold $1.8 million in funding.

The suit claims he was marginalized and then fired for writing the documents which criticized the spending practices of university officials.

[39] The provincial Minister of Advanced Education, Rob Norris, called for an emergency meeting with the University of Regina's board of governors to discuss the financial situation at the FNUniv.

[42] On March 19, 2010, Charles Pratt was terminated by the Interim Board of Governors, with cause, as President of FNUniv; he had previously been suspended with pay.

[44] Dr. Shauneen Pete, who had formerly been dismissed from a leadership post at FNUniv, was appointed as President in April 2010 for a six-month term.

[45] In August 2012, Charles Pratt and Allan Ducharme reached an out-of-court settlement and FNUniv issued a statement as a part of that settlement, which stated in part "that neither Mr. Pratt nor Mr. Ducharme were found to be in dereliction of their respective duties nor guilty of any financial impropriety".