It seems like every time I head out on a vacation for the past few years I get tragic news. Recently, as I was leaving the country, I heard that my Uncle George had passed away. This made me very […]
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2017 Hunting, Fishing and Camping Show
Every year I make a semi-sacred pilgrimage to the Montreal Hunting, Fishing and Camping Show to see what’s new in the tools that help a Cree survive. To be truthful I also go to see what new flavours and spices […]
Warming up to the future
As I write, today is one of those really dangerous times to travel on the road in northern Ontario. The weather is causing great problems all along Highway 11 from North Bay to Thunder Bay with freezing rain being reported […]
Neemis Jackie
I don’t get the chance to visit with my family often these days. We are all live far apart and lead busy lives. We talk on the phone but it is not the same as being able to sit with […]
Naskapi caribou hunters cause uproar after taking dozens of caribou in Eeyou Istchee
Chisasibi’s Lorne Sam found the caribou before he met the Naskapi hunters. “Near kilometre 112 on the Trans-Taiga Highway, there’s a road that goes to one of the excess-dykes for the LG-3 dam,” Sam told the Nation. “I saw a […]
A Cree hockey tradition returns to Val-d’Or
An annual rite of winter for the Cree Nation was revived earlier this month as the C.R.E.E. Senior Hockey and Broomball Tournament returned to Val-d’Or following a one-year absence. Last year marked the first time in three decades that the […]
Exodus
I’m calling around for people to give me a boost. But it’s cold and most have left town. It’s the annual pilgrimage to Val-d’Or for some all-out sports event featuring the up-and-coming, the best, the fastest, the oldest, the messiest, […]
Using virtual reality to strengthen Cree language
The Cree School Board (CSB) will be offering the most cutting-edge language-teaching technology in Quebec, if not the whole country, when three pilot projects begin in Chisasibi, Nemaska and Oujé-Bougoumou this month. The Cree Syllabics Virtual Reality (CSVR) project, called […]
Shoot first, ask questions later?
North Battleford, Saskatchewan, lawyer Eleanore Sunchild was eloquent in describing the context of the shooting August 9 of a 22-year-old Cree man, Colten Boushie. “There’s been more than 100 years of stereotypes and racism building, and the Battleford here has […]
Neal McLeod explores the Cree language with new book
In 100 Days of Cree, published in June by the University of Regina Press, author Neal McLeod makes a departure from his previous work. McLeod – poet, painter, “bingo caller” and Indigenous Studies professor at Trent University – previously wrote […]