Cree Nation Government

Cree Nation Government
ᐄᓅᑎᐯᔨᐦᒋᒉᓲ –– ᐄᔨᔫᑎᐯᔨᐦᒋᒉᓲ
Gouvernement de la nation crie
Country  CAN
Province  Quebec
Nation Eeyou Istchee
Website gcc.ca
Offices
Head Nemaska (ᓀᒥᔅᑳᐤ)
Additional Montréal

The Cree Nation Government (CNG, French: Gouvernement de la nation crie, Southern East Cree: ᐄᓅᑎᐯᔨᐦᒋᒉᓲ, Northern East Cree: ᐄᔨᔫᑎᐯᔨᐦᒋᒉᓲ) formed in 1978 under the name Cree Regional Authority (CRA) and serves as the administrative authority of the Cree Nation of Eeyou Istchee and provides programs and services to its communities. The CNG is responsible for environmental protection and is also the legal body representing the nation to provincial and federal administrations.

While the CNG is a separate legal entity from the Grand Council of the Crees (Eeyou Istchee), they have identical membership, board of directors, governing structures and are de facto managed and operated as one organization by the Cree Nation.[1]

An accord signed between the Cree Nation and the Quebec government on July 24, 2012, called for the status and name of the Cree Regional Authority to be changed to the Cree Nation Government.[2] The Cree Nation Government currently has 309 employees.

Eeyou communities of the Grand Council

References

  1. ↑ "About the Grand Council of the Crees". The Grand Council of the Crees. Retrieved July 26, 2018.
  2. ↑ Agreement on Governance in the Eeyou Istchee James Bay Territory Between the Crees of Eeyou Istchee and the Gouvernement du Québec (PDF). 2012. p. 12. Retrieved July 26, 2018.

Further reading

  • Cree Board of Health and Social Services of James Bay, and Statistics Canada. Eeyou Istchee Aboriginal Peoples Survey 2001 A Report Prepared by the Cree Board of Health and Social Services of James Bay from Responses Given by 906 Eeyouch to Statistics Canada in the Spring of 2001. Chisasibi, Québec: Cree Board of Health and Social Services of James Bay, 2004. ISBN 2-550-43043-3
  • Dewailly E., C. Blanchet, S. Gingras, S. Lemieux, and B. J. Holub. 2002. "Cardiovascular Disease Risk Factors and N-3 Fatty Acid Status in the Adult Population of James Bay Cree". The American Journal of Clinical Nutrition. 76, no. 1: 85–92.
  • Gnarowski, Michael. I Dream of Yesterday and Tomorrow A Celebration of the James Bay Crees. Kemptville, Ont: Golden Dog Press, 2002. ISBN 1-894908-00-7
  • Minde R., and K. Minde. 1995. "Socio-Cultural Determinants of Psychiatric Symptomatology in James Bay Cree Children and Adolescents". Canadian Journal of Psychiatry. Revue Canadienne De Psychiatrie. 40, no. 6: 304–312.
  • Morantz, Toby Elaine. An ethnohistoric study of eastern James Bay Cree social organization, 1700–1850. Ottawa: National Museums of Canada, 1983.
  • Niezen, Ronald. Defending the Land Sovereignty and Forest Life in James Bay Cree Society. Cultural Survival studies in ethnicity and change. Boston: Allyn and Bacon, 1998. ISBN 0-205-27580-X
  • Richardson, Boyce. Strangers Devour the Land A Chronicle of the Assault Upon the Last Coherent Hunting Culture in North America, the Cree Indians of Northern Quebec, and Their Vast Primeval Homelands. New York: Knopf :distributed by Random House, 1976. ISBN 0-394-49838-0
  • Salisbury, Richard Frank. A Homeland for the Cree Regional Development in James Bay, 1971–1981. Kingston: McGill-Queen's University Press, 1986. ISBN 0-7735-0550-4
  • Scott, Simeon, and C. D. Ellis. Âtalôhkâna Nêsta Tipâcimôwina = Cree Legends and Narratives : from the West Coast of James Bay. Publications of the Algonquian Text Society. Winnipeg: University of Manitoba Press, 1995. ISBN 0-88755-159-9
  • Siy, Alexandra. The Eeyou People of Eastern James Bay. New York: Dillon Press, 1993. ISBN 0-87518-549-5
  • Willows N. D., J. Morel, and K. Gray-Donald. 2000. "Prevalence of Anemia Among James Bay Cree Infants of Northern Quebec". CMAJ : Canadian Medical Association Journal (Journal De L'Association Medicale Canadienne). 162, no. 3: 323–326.
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