Hi, my name is Diane Bosum, I am 12 years old and
I live in Oujé- Bougoumou.

This is a drawing I made on a computer in our computer camp.
I drew this because this is what I thought, in the old days Cree people's houses looked like, maybe some people had shacks or houses.
This is a family's summer bush camp, the reason why I call it a Summer bush camp is because Cree people used to move around in the northern part of
Quebec to hunt fish and trap.

This is a drawing I did by hand, this is what our logo almost looks like. I made the top canoe different because Peter told me to. He's our computer teacher, he is from Ontario, he told me to make it look like birch bark canoe. It usually looks brown but I made it different. Now I'm going to write about something I read in a book about our logo.

The logo represents a history of our people in their struggles to obtain Canadian legal recognition and a fair and reasonable agreement regarding land, community, socio-economic development base and so on. The semi beaver pelt represents the James Bay Cree Nation which we originate from. The woman and child represents a generation in progress and the birth of a new community. The dark canoe represents our history. We traveled by canoes within our Traditional Territories in order to carry out our traditional economy of hunting, fishing and trapping, this is still practiced by 50% of our people. The stripped canoe on one side represents the other 8 Cree Bands in James Bay Cree Nation and the other side has nine stripes which represent our inclusion as one of the nine communities in the Cree Nation. The sun in the background is a hope for a better future for our people and children.

This is us, the computer club going in the mine museum. We are getting

ready to go, our guide Julie said it is 3 degrees Celsius inside. She was

a nice guide, she said that there was a bat in the museum and she said if you

steal some gold the Dragon will come and get you but I didn't believe her.

It was cold in there, at the end we watched a little movie about mining it was nice. Before

we went in the Mine we looked at some sculptures of miners from 6000B.C..

One of the sculptures was a miner in Egypt. They worked 24 hours a day

and had 1 hour of sleep. They were slaves and they died a couple of years

later once they started mining. Then we were in the 1800`s we watched a little movie

about the mines in the 1800`s.. Kids worked in the mines, I bet they didn`t like it, I learned

a lot about mines and I had fun.

This is a picture of us looking at David Denten an Archeologist digging the first layer of ground.
You might think he's wearing the knee pads to go roller blading or something, but he said, "these are the greatest things invented", and then he said, "I've been wasting my knees for 20 years and then these things
were invented", we helped him dig 2 layers.

This is a picture of our instructors David and Anna Bosum. They used to be our Cree

Culture teachers, but they said "I don't think we are going to be your teachers

next school year". I hope they are still going to be our teachers . This is a picture

from our canoe trip. In the background there are 5 of us and there was still 4

coming to the Bridge.

The people under the Bridge are Steve and Joey on the right and on the left is

Duane, Russell and me. We had a lot of fun. After we stopped at a place

where there was sand and we went swimming.