“Maybe I dreamed too big for them,” said now former Youth Grand Chief Joshua Iserhoff. “I did what I could in three years, but I think we did an excellent job as youth leaders.” Iserhoff was commenting on his removal […]

Oujé-Bougoumou hosted this year’s Grand Council/Cree Nation Government Annual General Assembly in a beautiful setting marred only by the on-and-off rain. More than a few members thought we would be flooded out but thanks to quick thinking, plastic and sand […]

It may have been difficult to compete with last year’s thunderous one-two punch of Metallica and Slayer, but there were many metal fans voting with their absent feet and devil salutes at Heavy Montreal 2015. Crowds at the August 7-9 […]

Responding to the needs of the rapidly developing employment market within Eeyou Istchee, it has been a full decade since the Cree School Board opened the Sabtuan Regional Vocational Training Centre in Waswanipi to give Crees the skills they needed […]

As children ran through the fountains at Montreal’s Place des Festival, gleefully dancing around a sacred turtle sculpture beneath a sky-high artistic representation of a teepee, A Tribe Called Red mix pulsed the speakers and local Native artisans flogged their […]

A long-anticipated report from Quebec’s Bureau d’audiences publiques sur l’environnement (BAPE) says that authorizing uranium develop- ment in the province would be inap- propriate in the present context. Released July 17, the report follows months of public consultations throughout Cree […]

It is early morning on Fort George Island, and 87-year-old Jade Matthew is building a teepee with her husband. Grabbing two long birch poles tied together at one end with bright red rope, they place the bottoms in the soil, […]

Mistissini’s second annual Big Rock Fishing Derby offered competitors a shot at close to $100,000 in cash and prizes July 17-19. The top three finishers in the main Walleye category – Eric Menard, Ian Langdon and Martin Boisvert – walked […]

“You’re going to be so impressed with the work we have here!” beamed Makivik Corporation consultant Sylvie Cornez, curator of the exhibition Taku (“see” in Inuktitut), which featured the work of Inuit sculptors from Montreal’s Native Friendship Centre (NFC) and […]

A nation-to-nation forestry agreement has led the Grand Council of the Crees to shelve a multimillion-dollar lawsuit against the Quebec government, but not all Crees are satisfied with the terms reached by the two parties. Signed on July 12 in […]