tansi Enoch Echo Readers,
“Happy 19th Anniversary Enoch Echo!”
August 2023, marks the 19th Year Anniversary of Enoch Echo operating!
I would like to introduce and welcome two gentlemen that have joined Enoch Echo staff: Angus Thomas, Junior Editor and Ian Brule, Editor Executive Assistant. “tawâw Angus and Ian!”
27th of every month is new deadline for submissions for the following:
♦ articles
♦ posters
♦ celebration wishes
If you have anything you would like to share in September 2023 Enoch Echo, please email: echo@enochnation.ca
Happy Reading!
Sincerely, Shannon Callingbull, Senior Editor
Enoch Cree Nation Enoch Echo Staff
Shannon Callingbull, Senior Editor Angus Thomas, Junior Editor Ian Brule, Editors Executive Assistant
AUGUST 2023
tawâw to Change
Enoch Cree Nation continues to move forward with this constant change of technology, climate changes, and social economics of our world. Coming from a place of humbleness, honours and truth, and with the attitude that we need to be “the change and work together”.
Not just as “leaders but as family members” in the community.
♦ Learn from Yesterday ♦ Live for Today ♦ Hope for Tomorrow ♦
It’s been a slow process but necessary process of change and improvement for Enoch Cree Nation:
New paved roads with street light posts,
New homes and old buildings being refreshed with new coat of paint and renovations.
New fuel providers offering better incentive of savings to help our community cope with rising cost of inflation.
New yellow school buses for the maskêkosak kiskinomatowikamik
New treatment centre.
“Way to go Enoch Cree Nation! Keep Up the great work!”
Enoch Cree Nation Corporate
We are excited to announce River Cree Convenience has a new fuel distributor.
Welcome Centex to maskêkosihk, Treaty 6 Territory!
ENOCH CREE NATION
Unity in numbers is better than being divide. With good intentions for the better of our people…Let’s continue to move forward building a better future for our family of Enoch Cree Nation.
July 17th, 2023
maskêkosak kiskinomatowikamik Update: “5 out of the 11 School Buses” have been delivered today to the New School at approximately 10:20 am. They will be “Smudged and Blessed” before the new school semester that starts in September 2023.
OTTAWA Canada should give "urgent consideration" to legal mechanisms as a way to combat residential school denialism, said a Friday report from the independent special interlocutor on unmarked graves.
Justice Minister David Lametti said he is open to such a solution.
Kimberly Murray made the call in her newly released interim report, just over a year after she was appointed to an advisory role focused on how Ottawa can help Indigenous communities search for children who died and disappeared from Her final report is due next year and is expected to contain recommendations. The former executive director of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada spent much of the past year travelling the country and hearing from different communities, experts and survivors.
The Liberal government created her role as it looked for ways to respond to First Nations from across Western Canada and in parts of Ontario using ground-penetrating radar to search former residential school sites for possible unmarked graves.
In her interim report, Murray raised concerns about increasing attacks from "denialists" who challenge communities when they announce the discovery of possible unmarked graves. "This violence is prolific," the report said. "And takes place via email, telephone, social media, op-eds and, at times, through in-person confrontations."
Murray listed several examples, including after the May 2021 announcement by the Tk'emlúps te Secwépemc Nation that ground-penetrating radar had discovered what are believed to be 215 unmarked graves at the site of the former Kamloops Indian Residential School.
The findings garnered international media attention and triggered an outpouring of grief, shock and anger from across the country, both in Indigenous and non Indigenous communities. Murray said in her report that on top of dealing with an onslaught of media attention, the First Nation in British Columbia had to deal with individuals entering the site itself.
"Some came in the middle of the night, carrying shovels; they said they wanted to 'see for themselves' if children are buried there. Denialists also attacked the community on social media."
Related video: Search for unmarked graves begins at former Yukon residential school (cbc.ca) Murray said Canada has a role to play to combat this sentiment and that "urgent consideration" should be given to what legal tools exist to address the problem, including both civil
and criminal sanctions. "They have the evidence. The photos of burials. The records that prove that kids died. It is on their shoulders," Murray told a crowd gathered Friday in Cowessess First Nation in Saskatchewan.
"The government of Canada and the churches must step up," Murray said. Lametti, who appointed Murray to her role, said that he is open to all possibilities to fighting residential-school denialism.
He said that includes "a legal solution and outlawing it," adding some countries have criminalized denial of the Holocaust during the Second World War.
The federal government followed suit last year, amending the Criminal Code to say someone could be found guilty if they wilfully promote antisemitism "by condoning, denying or downplaying the Holocaust." The measure does not apply to private conversations.
NDP MP Leah Gazan has also called for Parliament to legislate residential school denialism as hate speech. "I recognize the damage denialism does," Lametti said Friday as he joined the event in Cowessess First Nation by video conference.
Cowessess First Nation announced in June 2021 that ground-penetrating radar had identified 751 potential unmarked graves at a community cemetery, near a former residential school. Murray's interim report also underlined the need for greater access to records, including the highly sensitive documents compiled to adjudicate compensation claims under the Indian
Residential School
Settlement Agreement. They are set to be destroyed by 2027, as decided by the Supreme Court of Canada.
The records detail the abuses survivors suffered. Survivors are able to request copies of their own records or consent to them being sent to the National Centre for Truth and Reconciliation, the archive designed to house documents from the residential school system. Murray's report said only 30 survivors have chosen to have their records preserved.
She said their pending destruction is concerning because they could contain information relating to the deaths and burials of other children.
"Before these records are destroyed," Murray said, "there needs to be an independent and external review of them for names of children that died and for any information about their deaths in burials."
This report by The Canadian Press was first published June 16, 2023.
What a great way to show appreciation to all the staff of Enoch Cree Nation. The atmosphere full of laughter and excitement.
~July 24th, 2023
Extending a warm
leadership for allowing this wonderful event to take place for all staff.
♦ The Ranch and Golf Country Club and all their staff for their expertise in hospitality and excellent
♦The Enoch Cree Nation Staff for their participating and making it successful.
♦The Enoch Golf Committee for all their hard work in planning, organizing and preparing this event.
♦The Enoch Social Committee for their hospitality and bringing fun mini golf games
♦ Ian Brule (Editor Executive Assistant) for helping me with driving the golf cart and helping with taking photos.
Shannon Callingbull Senior Editoray hiy Golf Committee:
Jolene Alexander-Morin
Shaydon Desjarlais
Sheena Cardinal
Lorraine Makokis
Maria Arcand
Dreydon Thomas
ah hiy Enoch Social Committee:
Jeka Cardinal
Robert Hope
Tamara Thomas
Lynn Moreno
Lorna Ward
Virginia Doucet
Jenn Cardinal
Sonya McDonald
Volunteer Holly Bruno
Enoch Echo Staff
Contributors:
Shannon Callingbull Senior Editor
Ian Brule Editors Executive Assistant
Here are the winners in each flight for Enoch Staff Golf Tournament, we had 3 flights and 3 places in each flight, 1st, 2nd, 3rd.
1st Flight
• 1st - Benita Ward, Steven Ward, Christian Foulds, Reanne Arcand
• 2nd - Brandin Bruno, Morgan Alexander, Leslie Ginther
• 3rd - Logan Morin, Kaicy Morin, Ciranda Omeasoo, Riley Gordon
2nd Flight
• 1st Sonya McDonald, Garrison Deschamps, Cheyanne Ward, Dean Alexander
• 2nd Troy Ward, Tim Alexander, Sandy Alexander, Harvey W. Morin
• 3rd Lee Morin, Kenisha Arcand, Brent Morin, Kevin Peacock
3rd Flight
• 1st Jensen Morin, Christina Cutknife, Theodore Alexander, Donna Mcree
• 2nd Brittney Bruno, Corey Morin, Randy Morin, Shane Morin
• 3rd Derek Morin, Shane P. Morin, Eugene Papin, Lindsay Ward
Enoch Cree Nation has been proactive in various competitions at all ages. Perseverance, enhanced skills and prestige resulted in every challenge of these events by members of Enoch:
Pow Wow Competitions
Hand game
Hockey
Indian Relay Races
Golf
Various Sports in Indigenous Games
Pool Championships
Connecting with Enoch
Cree Nation member Cynthia May Cowan, who won 1st place in the VNEA World Championship in the Women’s Regular
Division. The first Enoch member to earn this title. She has been competing since 2013.
She had to win ten matches to achieve the title and it wasn’t very easy. There were sixteen 32 player brackets.
Cynthia’s team was known as “Still Deadly” with Beverly Knibb, Tracy Shannacappo, Sheila Knibb, Cynthia Cowan.
They lost in the main Women’s Regular Teams bracket. But they entered the Sportswomen’s Tournament and won first place. They called the trophy a Charlie.
The next closest was another Enoch member
Conrad Sharphead when he earned 4th place.
Congrats Conrad!
Briefly about this annual event:
The Valley National 8-Ball League Association (VNEA) is a non-profit organization established to promote the game of pool on coin-operated equipment.
The membership is comprised of men, women and junior players, coin machine operators and manufacturers.
Founded in 1979, the VNEA has shown tremendous growth, success and stability by
expanding from 2,500 members the initial season to nearly 100,000 players currently.
These 100,000 men and women players will visit their local establishments two or three times a week and play more than ten million games of pool in competition and practice.
Teams from nearly every state, and several foreign countries will compete each week in organized VNEA league play. The 44th Annual Event 2024 VNEA World Pool Championship to take place May 23rd to June 1st, 2024.
Congratulations Still Deadly Team!
Shannon Callingbull, SeniorEditor
We want to take this opportunity to acknowledge and celebrate a “Stunning 5 Years of Service for Jenny Cardinal and Josey Cardinal!
Josey [Left] works with our Grab N' Go as a cashier, every time I have seen her working she is always delivering superior customer service, she is an asset to our team!
Jenny [Right] works at Tap 25 as one of our Busser and Hostess's, she also delivers exceptional customer service to all the patrons at the resort!
Both Jenny and Josey both deliver such excellent services with a smile, and we are lucky to have them as a part of our team!
Thank you for your hard work and dedication !
Congratulations to Our Winning Contestants
Princess Winners of 2023
Senior Princess ~ Delphine Zorthian
Junior Princess ~ Ariana Morin
Tiny Tot Princess ~ Winter Rose Ward
Warriors Winners of 2023
Senior Warrior ~Peter Ahkewneneh Ochiese
Tiny Tot Warrior ~ Mahikhan Kiskikomon
Originally chosen for the team Millbrook NS. Madisen placed the final rounds and is bringing
BIG CONGRATULATIONS
Going out to all the Enoch Students that represent ENOCH Cree Nation proudly at St. Thomas More:
Henrik Alexander-Ward Track & Field
Kyrie Brule Cree (not pictured)
Jaylee Alexander Cree
Kinsley Peacock Honor Roll
Brennan Auger-Morin Honor Roll (not pictured)
ENOCH’s future looks bright!
Congratulations!
Emilie Morin and Kirsten Harris-Morin with the Alexander Rampage win Gold at the John Cho Cup in Prince George!
Happy 11th birthday Ethan Savard!!!
Hope this year is full of adventure, epic moments and great memories made.
Love you, Mom, Dad and your big brother Trestan
“Happy Born Anniversary Cree! You’re an amazing woman and mother! Have a blessed day.
Love Jada” -August 26th
Happy Birthday to my niece Kaydra August 6!
Happy Birthday to my big sister Sherri Mousseau on August 7!
Happy Birthday to my nephew Daz on August 11!
Happy Heavenly Anniversary to my grandparents Percy & Sylvia on August 12.
And thinking of my late cousin Eileen born on August 19. And my late Mom on August 31.
Love Cynthia May Cowan
