Tom Roberts

Tom Roberts (born ca. 1950) is a retired Canadian radio host and journalist.

Roberts was born in Stanley Mission, Saskatchewan to a northern Cree family who made their living as trappers, fishers, and tour guides. The family's trapline was at Forbes Lake, a remote lake about 20 kilometres north of Otter Lake. Dissatisfied with trapping, Roberts left to pursue studies in La Ronge and Yorkton and in Edmonton with Albert Native Communication Society and Grant McKewan, eventually finding work as an airfreight radio operator and a Cree–English translator. This experience led to him being offered a job as a broadcast radio announcer by the Department of Northern Saskatchewan. Roberts's Cree-language broadcasts became the first indigenous-language programming in Saskatchewan.

In 1982, premier Grant Devine's government dissolved the Department and cancelled its communications program, and the following year Roberts joined CBC Radio. Roberts became the host of Keewatin Country, a one-hour news magazine broadcast weekdays at noon. He remained in this position until his retirement in 2010.

Tom was also instrumental in helping set up “Missinipi Broadcasting Corporation in the mid-eighties and still broadcasting today in Saskatchewan, an aboriginal radio station.

In 2003, Roberts was awarded the Women of the Dawn's First Nations Award for journalism.

After retirement, Tom worked with the residential school program in Saskatchewan, helping and assisting survivors of residential schools.

Tom does lectures on life-in-a-residential-school and talks to school children about intergenerational impacts of residential school experiences.