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Inauguration of the Whapmagoostui Justice Facility

Jodi Rave Spotted Bear
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Whapmagoostui, QC, Sept. 6, 2012 РToday, Dr. Matthew Coon Come, Grand Chief of the Grand Council of the Crees (Eeyou Istchee) and Chairman of the Cree Regional Authority, inaugurated the Whapmagoostui Justice Facility in the presence of Madame Justice Danielle C̫t̩, Associate Chief Justice of the Court of Qu̩bec, Criminal and Penal Division, as well as Stanley George, Chief of Whapmagoostui, Rhoda Angutiguluk, Mayor of Kuujjuarapik, and other distinguished guests.

Following the inauguration of justice facilities in the communities of Mistissini, Waswanipi, Oujé-Bougoumou, Chisasibi, Wemindji, and Waskaganish, the Whapmagoostui Justice Facility is the seventh of nine (9) facilities to be constructed in the Cree communities of Eeyou Istchee. These facilities will be wholly managed and operated by the Crees, and they will host the hearings of the Québec and Superior Courts as well as house the local Justice Committees. These facilities will also offer a range of judicial and parajudicial services and programs, such as family services, mediation, and preventive and reintegration programs.
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Jodi Rave Spotted Bear
jodi@imfreedomalliance.org https://twitter.com/JodiRave

Jodi Rave Spotted Bear is the founder and director of the Indigenous Media Freedom Alliance, a 501-C-3 nonprofit organization with offices in Bismarck, N.D. and the Fort Berthold Reservation. Jodi spent 15 years reporting for the mainstream press. She's been awarded prestigious Nieman and John S. Knight journalism fellowships at Harvard and Stanford, respectively. She also an MIT Knight Science Journalism Project fellow. Her writing is featured in "The Authentic Voice: The Best Reporting on Race and Ethnicity," published by Columbia University Press. Jodi currently serves as a Society of Professional Journalists at-large board member, an SPJ Foundation board member, and she chairs the SPJ Freedom of Information Committee. Jodi has won top journalism awards from mainstream and Native press organizations. She earned her journalism degree from the University of Colorado at Boulder.

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