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Native Language Programs: What they Need
Dorothy Thunder’s Cree language classroom, University of Alberta, with student Angela van Essen Thank you to Cree Literacy Network board member Ken Paupanekis for sharing this conference paper from...
View ArticleMansil Fiddler’s First Nation YouTube Song Challenge
When I was visiting Solomon Ratt today in his FNU office, Mansil Fiddler from Waterhen dropped by to tell Sol about the First Nation YouTube Song Challenge he’s extending all across the prairies....
View ArticleBridging Communities: ê-âsokanîstamowâyahkik ihtâwina
I’m feeling very proud today, after bringing one set of old friends (Solomon Ratt and Arok Wolvengrey) to meet another set of old friends (members and friends of Editors Canada). Taking part in the...
View ArticleRosanna Deerchild – Translated by Solomon Ratt (th-dialect, with audio)
Following up on our joint presentation at Editors Canada 2018 Conference in Saskatoon (26 May 2018), Solomon is (as usual) three jumps ahead. Using slides from our presentation, he has prepared this...
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2018: pâskâwihowipîsim / ᐹᐢᑳᐏᐦᐅᐏᐲᓯᒼ / June
Thanks to Solomon Ratt for allowing the Cree Literacy Network to share his 2018 calendar, complete with his own original illustrations. Following his request, we will post one image at the beginning...
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Introductory Cree at CILLDI, 2018
Introduction to Cree is one of many amazing Canadian Indigenous Languages and Literacy Development Institute summer courses offered this July. Check it out here:...
View ArticleCharlie Venne: Cree Videos for Everybody
Go Charlie Venne! Thanks for sharing your new YouTube channel with all of us! Click on the video to play it – and I’ve already hit “subscribe” on your YouTube page – I hope lots of others do as well....
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A Ducky Cree Tongue-twister from Mary Cardinal Collins
Blue-winged teal drake standing on rock. ©Ducks Unlimited Canada. Thanks to Mary Cardinal Collins for letting me share this great Cree tongue-twister remembered from childhood (as if most Cree words...
View ArticleAll about Ducks – y-dialect
Following up on Mary Cardinal’s terrific tongue-twister, here’s a collection of duck terms extracted from the online itwêwina dictionary, with a couple of extras provided by Solomon Ratt....
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Horse Lips: Solomon Ratt (th-dialect, with audio)
http://creeliteracy.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/Horse-Lips.m4a ohpimî kiskinwahamâtowikamikohk kî-astîw mînisihtakâw ikota mâna kî-ohci-mawisowak okiskinwahamâkîwak wîsakipicikwâsa,...
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SICC Language Keepers Dates Announced for 2018
(poster by Joi Arcand) Annually, in the third week of November, the SICC hosts its First Nations Language Keepers Conference. For 2018 and beyond, the conference will now be known as the...
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Wilfred Buck: Tipiskâwi kîsik: Night Sky Stories
Congratulations to Wilfred Buck and to MFNERC on the publication of his new collection of Night Sky Stories. I tried to pick up a copy at the recent Lighting the Fire Conference in Winnipeg, but all...
View ArticleAbout Handgames
http://creeliteracy.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/05/PatrickYakinneah.mp4 This post was inspired by a FaceBook video of Dene elders hard at play, publicly posted on FaceBook by Patrick Yakinneah, and...
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Teacher Training: TPR Storytelling, St Paul, Alberta
This looks like a great opportunity for those who can get there! For details, email Dianne.Steinhauer@tcef.ca or call 780.645.5880. Learn more about Tribal Chiefs Education Foundation at http://tcef.ca
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Izaiah Swampy-Omeasoo gives Treaty Six Acknowledgement in Cree
Thanks to Izaiah Swampy-Omeasoo for letting us share this Treaty Six territorial acknowledgement in Cree – as it is now used by Edmonton Public Schools’ First Nation, Metis, Inuit Education....
View ArticlePsalm 23 (th-dialect)
A recent request on nêhiyawêwin (Cree) Word of the Day asked for a th-dialect version of the 23rd psalm, so committed heathen Solomon Ratt immediately jumped right to the rescue. Fortunately for us,...
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Wooden Syllabics for the Classroom
Diane Ellis is a developer of educational materials with many years’ experience working with Oji-Cree communities in Northern Ontario, who is now working with Inuktitut. She recently sent me a sample...
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I Sat Quietly – Poem by Teta Engram (translated by Solomon Ratt – y-dialect)
Photo thanks to Izaiah Swampy-Omeasoo Thanks to Izaiah Swampy-Omeasoo who sent this poem by Teta Engram to Solomon Ratt for translation into Cree. Teta Engram is a teacher at Victoria School of Arts in...
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wahwâ! kahkiyaw kimamihcihinân!
Graduating members of the 2018 UVic Indigenous Revitalization Class. Congratulations to Laura Burnouf M.Ed, Heather Souter M.Ed, Randy Morin M.Ed, and all of their colleagues graduating with new...
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For Father’s Day: Solomon Ratt (th-dialect)
Solomon Ratt c. 1978 with his father and his son (who is now himself a father of three) http://creeliteracy.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/Oops.m4a ispî kâ-kî-awâsisîwiyân kapî mâna nikî-wîcîwâw...
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