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Vowel and Consonant Sounds for Reading Cree in SRO & Syllabics: Solomon Ratt...
https://creeliteracy.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/audio-vowels.mp3 http://creeliteracy.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/consonants.mp3 Some Cree words illustrating SRO consonant sounds:...
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Federal Court Issues Decision in Cree and Dene (y-dialect, audio)
A CBC news report from 29 May 2019 includes – for the first time ever – parallel summaries of its judgment in English, Dene and Plains Cree. The judgment was made by Justice Roger Lafrenière, chair of...
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êkwa, mîcisotân! Come on, Let’s eat! (audio, y-dialect)
Thanks to Crystal Anderson for permission to use her photo of two of my favourite Cree speakers in training! Here’s a little mealtime vocabulary to practise while you’re at the table (or while you’re...
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All about Indigenous Intellectual Property – In Plains Cree (y-dialect)
Thanks to Samara Harp for pointing me to this Government of Canada website that introduces the broad ideas of Indigenous Intellectual Property, and makes an interesting read in itself:...
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A Simple Lullaby: Belinda Vandenbroeck (n- and y-dialects, audio)
A genuine Cree lullaby from a genuine kôhkom, sung very gently to the tune of “Skip to my Lou.” Thank you to Belinda Vandenbroeck – a Winnipeg maskêkôskwêw! This one is perfect for real babies, or for...
View ArticleFrom the 75th Anniversary of the D-Day Invasion (y-dialect, audio
Harry Raine, a Maskwacis Cree elder of the Louis Bull Tribe, brought the Cree language to Juno beach in Normandy to commemorate the 75th Anniversary of D-day 6 June 2019, and the Battle of Normandy....
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Congratulations Graduates, 2019
2019 graduates of University of Alberta Faculty of Native Studies with Elder Gilman Cardinal. Photo credit: Jordan Cook/Faculty of Native Studies at the University of Alberta.A handsome kindergarten...
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Worried Buffalo: Solomon Ratt (y-dialect, audio)
When we think of all the things the Buffalo provided to Plains Cree people, the first thing we usually think of is mîcim: food, especially in the form of paskwâwi-mostosowiyâs: buffalo meat. With this...
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When we had Sled Dogs (th-dialect, audio)
This lovely new book, released in May 2019, was inspired by trapline stories from childhood memories of LaRonge, Saskatchewan Elder Ida Tremblay who passed away in January 2019. The story, told in...
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Summary Paradigm Tables: The Decoder Ring of Cree Verbs (y- and th-dialects)
In English, we don’t waste much time with verb conjugations. We can cover almost every possibility (for the simple present, at least) with just one rule: “For 3rd person singular subjects (he/she/it),...
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National Indigenous Peoples Day 2019
http://creeliteracy.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/2019Indig.m4a th-dialectn-dialecty-dialect mitho-ithiniw-kîsikanisik mino-ininiw-kîsikanisikmiyo-iyiniw-kîsikanisik ᒥᖪ ᐃðᐦᐃᓂᐤ ᑮᓯᑲᓂᓯᐠᒥᓄ ᐃᓂᓂᐤ ᑮᓯᑲᓂᓯᐠᒥᔪ...
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Wâhkôhtowin: A Cree Way of Living (Andrea Smith, The Tyee)
Andrea Smith is nominated for a portfolio of work for The Tyee, including a story on a ‘life-changing’ bison harvest. Her Tyee practicum was supported by Journalists for Human Rights. In a portfolio...
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Teaching Fractions: Barry Ahenakew
Math concepts in Cree are particularly important for immersion classrooms, but they’re not often addressed in language textbooks. Thanks to Elder Barry L. Ahenakew for sharing this lesson on...
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Towards a Cree Listening Library: Francis Saysewehum and Sylvia McAdam...
Francis McAdam Saysewehum, wearing his Treaty 6 medal, and advocating always for honouring the treaties and Cree natural law. Today we join our prayers for the health of Elder Francis Saysewehum with...
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kâhkâkiw: The Common Raven (th-dialect)
The raven’s call may be familiar to many, but Cree Literacy followers will immediately recognize the call of our favourite th-dialect speaker, Solomon Ratt, in this newly dubbed narration. (Read the...
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Google Earth Celebrates Indigenous Languages – Including Cree
United Nations Day of Indigenous Peoples – 9 August 2019 – launched a worldwide tribute to Indigenous Languages through Google Earth and its story-telling tool, Voyager. The project, titled...
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Kokum Rap: Maria Campbell, Rita Bouvier, Maxine Roy, Louise Halfe with Zoey Roy
This fabulous video has had nearly 8,000 YouTube views since it was first posted earlier this month. These kokums are going viral (and we can all help)! The rap features power-poets and power-kokums...
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Live, Love, Laugh!
Thanks to Arok Wolvengrey for these new printables to greet the fall (and thanks to Chris Ravenis for use of her photo). I think we might add a fourth line that reads, “Share widely” (If you don’t have...
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2020 Calendar: Solomon Ratt, y- and th-dialects
2020CalendarSR-ACO 3Thank you, Sol, for coming through with a calendar for 2020! We’ll be putting it to good use! This post presents the calendar two ways: As a gallery of 12 images you can scroll...
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2020 Calendar: Solomon Ratt, y- and th-dialects – Final Version
2020 Calendar – Finalized and ready to print as of 12 September 2019 (thanks, Sol!) This post presents the updated calendar two ways: As a gallery of 12 images you can scroll through (click on each...
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