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Visiting CILLDI
I feel truly honoured to be in Edmonton this weekend – and to have had a chance this week to sit in at CILLDI on the Cree immersion course. Hay-hay, Dorothy Thunder, and all the students, including...
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A Call to Action to the Government of Canada by participants in #ANVILS16
Members of the Cree Literacy Network joined a group of about 150 academic and community language advocates at the University of Alberta this past weekend for preliminary talks about A National Vision...
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Google Mapping for Oral History
Dr. Brian Thom, UVic anthropologist and key indigenous leader with Google Earth Outreach, speaks with Stz’uminus First Nation elder Ray Harris near Ladysmith, B.C., on May 29, 2014, about how they can...
View Articlenêhiyaw pimâtisiwin comes to Hawai’i – NAISA 2016
It was a great honour to travel to Honolulu in May as cheerleader for the nêhiyaw pimâtisiwin /‘Living the Cree Way’ panel at the 2016 Native American and Indigenous Studies Association (NAISA)...
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All About Colours in Cree
nanâtohkinâkwan masinahikan: This [blog post] has many colours In English, we learn to name our colours just as we name shapes or animals. Cree works differently. Just as French divides its nouns into...
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Dance along with Powwow Sweat
Thanks to Facebook friend Una Verdandi for sharing the CBC article about the amazing (and hilarious) Powwow Sweat dance/workout series created by Stylehorse Collective and the Coeur d’Alene tribe in...
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2016: ohpahowipîsim / ᐅᐦᐸᐦᐅᐏᐲᓯᒼ / August
Thanks to Solomon Ratt for allowing the Cree Literacy Network to share his 2016 calendar, complete with his own original illustrations. Following his request, we will post one image at the...
View ArticleThe Nêhiyawak Cree Language Experience 2016
Click to view slideshow. Thanks to Solomon Ratt for permission to post this gallery of photos from this summer’s “Nêhiyawak Summer Language Acquisitioning Experience” hosted by Belinda Daniels at Don...
View ArticleStand By Me – Performed by Tristin Greyeyes and Saskatchewan Express
http://creeliteracy.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/Tristin_Stand_By_Me.mp4 Gotta love this video from Sandra Ahenakew, with all its family connections. Tristin Greyeyes performs Stand By Me in Cree...
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Wolf and the Moon Dog – adapted and translated by Solomon Ratt (th-dialect)
Solomon Ratt: Moon Dog (Story adapted by Solomon Ratt from “Papagayo and the MoonDog,” a Central American myth – where Papagayo is one very raucous parrot. One telling of the story in English is from...
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2016: nôcihitowipîsim / ᓅᒋᐦᐃᑐᐏᐲᓯᒼ / September
Thanks to Solomon Ratt for allowing the Cree Literacy Network to share his 2016 calendar, complete with his own original illustrations. Following his request, we will post one image at the...
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mâmaskâc! Solomon Ratt’s Beginning Cree is out at last!
Sol’s new book mâci-nêhiyawêwin / Beginning Cree is finally out. Congratulations to everyone involved! And – in addition to Sol himself, and the staff at University of Regina Press, and Holly Martin,...
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MOOSE CREE IN CONTEXT: FIRST NATION OVERCOMES FUNDING CHALLENGES, RETHINKS...
by Lauren Wildgoose September 16, 2016 Reposted from the Intercontinental Cry: A Publication of the Center for World Indigenous Studies (With thanks to Billy Isaac of Moose Cree First Nation for adding...
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Kisiskatchewan Water Alliance Network: Water is Life
“Water is life. No water, no life — it’s that simple.” Emil Bell, Canoe Lake First Nation elder The North Saskatchewan River continues to travel through Cree territory from North Battleford all the...
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pê-nêhiyawêk: Come Speak Cree in Regina with Darren Okemaysim
FREE conversational Cree classes every Monday evening from 6:00pm-8:00pm at the Gathering Place 4001 3rd Avenue North, Regina. For more information or to register call (306) 522-7494. Please Share.
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Orange Shirt Day 2016 – with help from Darren Okemaysim
Crystal Anderson – from Fox Lake, Manitoba, and her boy Trenton looking great in orange. Thanks to Darren Okemaysim for giving us these thoughts in Cree: kâhkiyaw awâsisak itakosiwak: ᑳᐦᑭᔭᐤ ᐊᐚᓯᓴᐠ...
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2016: pimihâwipîsim / ᐱᒥᐦᐋᐏᐲᓯᒼ / October
Thanks to Solomon Ratt for allowing the Cree Literacy Network to share his 2016 calendar, complete with his own original illustrations. Following his request, we will post one image at the...
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For Orange Shirt Day: Solomon Ratt (th-dialect)
Thanks to Sol for sharing his own reflections on intergenerational damage in honour of Orange Shirt Day. This was not an easy story to record – but it’s a powerful piece to share, especially to show...
View ArticleThinking – in Cree – of our Murdered and Missing Women and Girls (y-dialect,...
Click to view slideshow. http://creeliteracy.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/Women-And-Girls-Lost.m4a Solomon Ratt translated the phrases shown on these images at the request of Jacqueline Anaquod for...
View Articlepê-nêhiyawêk: Come Speak Cree with Darren Okemaysim – Class 1 Video
Tonight (Monday, 3 October 2016) is class 2 in File Hills Qu’Appelle Tribal Council’s new weekly Cree lessons with gold star Creecher Darren Okemaysim. – and you can join in online. Meanwhile, here’s...
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