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Ninêstosin
Thanks to NCI-FM for permission to use this backstage photo. At the recent NCI-FM “NCI Jam” Winston Wuttunee performed his classic favourite Ninêstosin along with singers and dancers from Winnipeg’s...
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Language Keepers 2013: Saskatoon
2013 FNLKC Registration Form 2013 FNLKC Trade Show Registration Form 2013 FNLKC Poster(rfs)
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Ducks Unlimited Donate Books to Shamattawa School
Congratulations and thanks to Leigh Patterson and colleagues at Ducks Unlimited Canada who have just delivered two boxes of beautiful-looking materials for Abraham Beardy Memorial School at Shamattawa....
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Dog Biscuits – A residential school story from Solomon Ratt
One of Solomon’s “Dog Biscuits”http://inuvikphotos.ca/2007/11/09/foods-of-the-north-part-one/ Thanks to Solomon Ratt for permission to share yet another one of his Residential School stories,...
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Angelic new Cree-ations for Christmas 2013
Jackie “Creeative Native” Traverse’s newest little angel. From Jackie “Creeative Native” Traverse in Winnipeg: “When I was a little girl I used to wonder why all the angels had blonde hair and blue...
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piminawasowikamik: Words for the Kitchen from Darren J. Okemaysim
UofAlberta Aboriginal Students’ Lounge SRO (pronunciation) – meaning kotawânâpisk (ko.tu.waa.naa.pisk) – stove| tahkastêpicikan (taah.kus.tey.pi.chi.gun) – fridge âkwacikan (aa.gwu.chi.gun) –...
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Flanders yikwahaskānihk : “In Flanders Fields”
In Flanders Fields by John McCrae is perhaps the most beloved war poem ever written. We share it here in honour of Cree-speaking veterans of many wars. 00000 Thanks to Jean Okimāsis and Arok...
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Certificate in Teaching Ininimowin
From Kevin Lewis (a recent Blue Quills MA graduate) now teaching at University College of the North. Calling Cree Teachers from Cree Territory. Have a look at the link and see if you would like to take...
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CBC News: Cree Names for New Edmonton Bridges
The city of Edmonton is using Plains Cree words to name two bridges on the southeast LRT extension in honour of the aboriginal community. Click here to read more.
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Sun dogs
Quoting Wayne Goodspirit from the archives of the Facebook Group “Nêhiyawêwin (Cree) Word/Phrase of the Day”: ayisk nîwiya ê-itêyihtamân kî-ayiman wahwês êtikwê ta-kisin’ pipohk. A long time ago, it...
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Indiegogo: Cree Language Classroom in Montreal
Bravo to Chelsea Vowel and friends on this creative initiative to equip a Cree language classroom for Plains/Métis Cree learners in Montreal. Click here to watch the video!...
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Muskeg Lake Computer Classes
Once I read the fine print on this poster offering free computer classes (with soup and bannock) my heart went from “wahwâ!” to a great big “Ho-LI!” Clint Fourstar, one of the late Freda Ahenakew’s...
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Cree classes in Prince Albert
Click here for the full story. Prince Albert / “Little Red River” is the birthplace of our dear elder, Bette Spence!
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Cree Honour Song by Randy Wood, arr. Kirsten Wood
Click here for Youtube Video with Vancouver Peace Choir.
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Protected: June 2011 at Saskatoon
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Merry (Woods Cree) Christmas, one and all!
With thanks for the gifts he gives us all year long, and warm greetings back to Solomon Ratt (and Kittie, of course) for the very best of the holiday season, wherever you may be speaking Cree! For...
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The Moon Speaks Cree
From Larry Loyie: My new book The Moon Speaks Cree, A Winter Adventure, came in today, a three-year journey to opening the boxes from Theytus Books. I’m so happy that what I dreamed of writing about...
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miyo-ohcêtowi-kîsikanisik: A New Year’s wish from Darren Okemaysim
êkos ôma kâ-wî-kîsi-askîwik kipakosêyihtamâtinâwâw miyo-pimâtisiwin mîna miyo-waskawîwin ka-otihtikoyêk kâhkiyaw – miyo-ohcêtowi-kîsikanisik – sâkihik kâhkiyaw kiwahkômâkanak...
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Christi Belcourt: Reclaiming ourselves one name at a time
Today, Hobbema once again becomes Maskwacis (‘Bear Hills’). In its honour, CBC republished this piece in which Christi Belcourt asks: Can aboriginal identity be reclaimed by changing names?...
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