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La Loche Community School
La Loche Community School is located in the village of La Loche in northern Saskatchewan, Canada. The school consists of two campuses. One campus, Ducharme School offers kindergarten to grade six; and the other, Dene High School offers grades seven to twelve. The school has an enrollment of 900 students and a support staff of 110. The majority of the students are bilingual and speak both Chipewyan language, Denesuline and English. History Ducharme School The first school of La Loche was a one-room whitewashed log building set on a loose stone foundation. It was built by Aime Janvier and Little Joe Montgrand in 1940 by the lake on the grounds of the present Ducharme School. The first teacher in 1941 was Peter Klotz, followed by Alex Sebulskey in 1942 and Sister Therese Arcand Grey Nuns, s.g.m. in 1943. Called the La Loche Community Day School, this school had 23 students in 1942 and 47 students in 1944. Another school built in 1946 had two classrooms. Another classroom was adde ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dene High School
The Dene people () are an Aboriginal peoples in Canada, indigenous group of First Nations in Canada, First Nations who inhabit the northern Boreal forest of Canada, boreal and Arctic regions of Canada. The Dene speak Northern Athabaskan languages. ''Dene'' is the common Athabaskan word for "people". The term "Dene" has two usages. More commonly, it is used narrowly to refer to the Athabaskan speakers of the Northwest Territories and Nunavut in Canada, especially including the Chipewyan (Denesuline), Tlicho (''Dogrib''), Yellowknives (T'atsaot'ine), Slavey people, Slavey (Deh Gah Got'ine or Deh Cho), and Sahtu (the Eastern group in Jeff Leer's classification; part of the Northwestern Canada group in Keren Rice's classification). However, it is sometimes also used to refer to all Northern Athabaskan speakers, who are spread in a wide range all across Alaska and northern Canada. The Southern Athabaskan speakers, however, also refer to themselves by similar words: Navajo people, D ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
