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Summer literacy camps reverse learning loss

Summer literacy camps reverse learning loss

Summer is the time kids have fun and relax, but unfortunately for some, time away from school can result in a loss of learning. On average, a child can lose up to a Grade level of reading comprehension over the summer […]

Judith Lynn Campy MacLeod  September 2, 1954 – August 27, 2016

Judith Lynn Campy MacLeod September 2, 1954 – August 27, 2016

The Cree School Board was founded in 1978. The year after that, Judy Campy arrived in Mistissini as one of the first teachers to work for the CSB. She would become one of the community’s longest-serving educators, only leaving the […]

N’we Jinan goes from music collective to art festival

N’we Jinan goes from music collective to art festival

The first ever N’we Jinan music and art festival took place June 24-25 in Mistissini, bringing together a delegation of 80 youth from Eeyou Istchee and beyond who were involved in the production of N’we Jinan’s three music albums. They […]

Mistissini hosts Quebec Aboriginal Science Fair

Mistissini hosts Quebec Aboriginal Science Fair

About 500 of Canada’s top young scientists have a chance to win almost $1 million in awards, prizes and scholarships at the Canada-Wide Science Festival (CWSF) later this year. For Aboriginal students from Quebec, it all began with secondary students getting […]

The art of academic success: Mikw Chiyâm high-school arts residencies off to a good start in Mistissini

The art of academic success: Mikw Chiyâm high-school arts residencies off to a good start in Mistissini

The Cree School Board launched an arts residency program for high school students at Mistissini’s Voyageur Memorial School in September. Dubbed the Mikw Chiyâm project, the program is a collaboration between N’we Jinan Records founder David Hodges and CSB director […]

Cree Nurse Mary Louise Snowboy

Investing in the future

The Aboriginal Nurses Association of Canada held its 2016 National Training Forum in Montreal February 16 and 17, bringing together First Nations, Inuit and Métis health-care professionals. The conference featured a Cree Health Board presentation on the “Integration of novice […]

Niikaan Project looks to the future

Niikaan Project looks to the future

Minority Media and the Cree School Board (CSB) are bringing an innovative project to high schools in Eeyou Istchee: a three-year video game concentration program dubbed the Niikaan Project (pronounced Nee-gan with a soft k). Led by Serge Béliveau, Deputy […]

Redesigning Cree Education at the Cree School Board Symposium

Redesigning Cree Education at the Cree School Board Symposium

The Cree School Board regional education symposium kicked off two days after the federal election on Oct 21-22. And the symposium’s special guest – former Prime Minister Paul Martin – lamented the lack of attention for Aboriginal issues during the […]

Homage to Gerti Murdoch

Homage to Gerti Murdoch

The Cree-Quebec Judicial Advisory Committee and the Cree Nation Government Department of Justice and Correctional Services would like to express their condolences to the family of Gerti (Diamond) Murdoch, of the Cree Nation of Waskaganish, and to all who had […]

Darlene Cheechoo named Waskaganish Chief in a landslide victory

Darlene Cheechoo named Waskaganish Chief in a landslide victory

Darlene Cheechoo, elected Chief of Waskaganish August 26 with close to 80% of the vote, is the first woman to lead her community. But she’s no stranger to leadership: she was a commissioner to the Cree School Board and a […]