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Cree Courses on the Prairies: Regina Course Correction/Update
University of Alberta Cree Language Courses Thank you to Arok Wolvengrey for letting me know that there is still lots of space available in this summer’s Cree Immersion course in Regina at First...
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pêyakôtênaw — An East Cree Family Group at Winter Camp, 1974
Cree-speaking pre-reader hard at work! In this beautiful documentary of an East Cree winter hunting camp, an NFB crew accompanies a small family group – a pêyakôtênaw – on their winter trapping...
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Neal McLeod: Cree Word Study 5.30.2013
Stolen (with all appropriate reverence) from Neal McLeod‘s Facebook feed. most-: stem morpheme: by itself, plain, straight forward derived from Arok Wolvengrey’s “nêhiyawêwin itwêwina” (all mistakes...
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All Shook Up!
Photograph by: Gord Waldner, The Starphoenix , The StarPhoenix Today’s article by Janet French from Saskatoon’s StarPhoenix features students from Priscilla St. John’s Grade 1 class, who performed an...
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CILLDI Seeks a new Director
Director, Canadian Indigenous Languages and Literacy Development Institute Competition No. - A110720557 Closing Date - Jul 08, 2013 Applications are invited for the appointment of Director, Canadian...
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Cree language facts for editors of English and French
Language Portal Header I was recently asked by the Editors’ Association of Canada to write something about Cree for the “Language Portal of Canada” — the federal government’s online information site...
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Neal McLeod: Cree Word Study 6.19.2013
Ida McLeod: Neal’s late köhkom, a pioneer of standard Cree orthography Stolen — with thanks — from Neal’s Facebook Feed. Word forms derived from Arok Wolvengrey, nêhiyawêwin: itwêwina. (all mistakes...
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wahwâ! kimahihcihinân
Kevin Lewis and Wayne Jackson (Goodspirit) How nice to celebrate National Aboriginal Day by congratulating these two fine gentlemen on attaining their Masters of Arts in Indigenous Languages, the first...
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John Murdoch, 1981, on Syllabics
Screen shot of HBC document about beaver, from Murdoch thesis. Although the Cree Literacy Network maintains its preference for Standard Roman Orthography, the syllabic system still retains a healthy...
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Cree kinship terms from Chelsea Vowel
Re-blogged with thanks to Chelsea Vowel from apihtawikosisan.com (October 24, 2011). Note that the website that hosted the “Cree Family Unit” that Chelsea mentions is no longer available on the web...
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Some Minimal Pairs from Solomon Ratt
This great collection of minimal pairs from Solomon Ratt brings together words in Cree that differ by only one sound, some of which are commonly confused. English is loaded with minimal pairs, like...
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Time at School: A teaching song by Brian MacDonald
The Eva Bereti Cree Bilingual Academy at Our Lady of Peace catholic elementary school — for a census package on Canada’s aboriginal population.PHOTO: CHRIS SCHWARZ/POSTMEDIA NEWS Sending wishes for a...
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More songs for kids: This Old Man / awa kisêyiniw
Download: 14-this-old-man-1.mp3 Thanks to Ness Michaels of Sunshine Records, for permission to post this audio recording. See purchase details below. The recording is in Swamy Cree (n-dialect). The...
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More songs for kids: The Bear Went Over the Mountain / maskwa aspin pasiciwacīhk
Photo credit: Mike Bender U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service From the collection of Dolores Sand Plains Cree translation by Ida McLeod & Freda Ahenakew maskwa aspin pasiciwacīhk maskwa aspin...
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More songs for kids: owanihikēw kī-wanihikēsiw (tune: Old MacDonald)
Three little sons of Billy Isaacs, Jr. of Moose Factory, sitting in front of a good season’s worth of pelts around 1983. Download: 06-old-mcdonald.mp3 This Cree “Old MacDonald” is not a farmer: he’s a...
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When Kids Don’t See Themselves Reflected At School
This brief TVO video reflects on the value to Aboriginal children of seeing themselves, their language and their culture reflected at school. Another reminder of the importance of creating not only...
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Tyrone Tootoosis, Sr. on the Treaty Six Flag
“Facelifted” from Tyrone Tootoosis Sr., September 10, 2013. Tyrone writes: Earlier this year, the University of Saskatchewan President’s Office requested that I compose a brief summary of the...
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Sixth Anniversary of UN Adoption of Declaration of Rights of Indigenous Peoples
Six years ago, on September 13, 2007, the UN adopted the Declaration of Rights of Indigenous Peoples. Thanks to Dick Preston for sharing the attached pdf which reflects on the document’s important, and...
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Cree language courses in Saskatoon and Edmonton!
Here are posters received today for Cree language classes in Saskatoon and Edmonton. The Saskatoon classes are free on a drop-in basis. I’m waiting for confirmation, but I think the instructor is...
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Solomon Ratt, 2013: “On the Threshold of a Dream”
Please email me at creeliteracy<at>gmail.com if you’d like a higher resolution copy of this image for printing, or if you’d like a text-only copy. Thanks, Sol, for permission to share this work!
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