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College Knowledge 101 provided students from local communities with an introduction to college life. Students participated in a range of interactive information and creative sessions, and got to know the CMTN campus and staff.
Dene’Tum was just 12 years old when he was taken from his parents and sent to residential school. In this student profile, he describes his life and struggles during adolescence and early adulthood, and how he had to leave everything behind to choose healing. Disclaimer: The following story discusses topics including residential schools, drug use, and violence, and may affect some readers.
CMTN alumnus Brittany Johnson shares her experience in the Education Assistant Program and working in the school system in Hazelton, BC.
Earlier this year at Coast Mountain College, Kwakwaka’wakw artist Lou-ann Neel was reunited with a rough cut of a model totem pole carved almost 100 years ago by her grandmother, Ellen Neel. First Nations Fine Arts Program Coordinator Nakkita Trimble-Wilson and Program Officer Kelli Louie facilitated this reunion, after being given the totem pole by a resident of northern Alberta.
CMTN is pleased to join the Western Canada Mobility Network, a network that offers attending students of participating colleges access and means to participate in their studies abroad while earning full academic credit.
We are very proud of our progressive and open relationships with local First Nations bands and governments and our respect for indigenous world view and educational practices.
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