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Edmonton Journal Salutes Maskwacis
Video: Round Dance at Maskwacis http://www.edmontonjournal.com/news/edmonton/Drumming+dancing+celebration+herald+beginning+Maskwacis/9339234/story.html
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How to Use a Cree Dictionary
Reblogged from That Môniyâw Linguist: Languages like Cree present particular problems for making dictionaries because the words are exceptionally complex. Unlike languages like English - where...
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Solomon Ratt: SRO Chants for Vowel Sounds
Click play to listen to Solomon read the vowel sounds used in SRO. Download: audio-vowels.mp3 Scroll to the bottom of this page for a downloadable mp3 audio file. a-a-a-a: apisîs, apisîs, apisîs...
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Solomon Ratt: SRO Chants for Consonant Sounds
Click to listen to Solomon read the consonant sounds of SRO. Download: consonants.mp3 Scroll to the bottom of this page for a downloadable mp3 audio file. c-c-c-c: cêskwa, cêskwa, cêskwa pitamâ.Wait,...
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Dog Biscuits – Th-Dialect – With Audio – A residential school story from...
One of Solomon’s “Dog Biscuits”http://inuvikphotos.ca/2007/11/09/foods-of-the-north-part-one/ Thanks to Solomon Ratt for the brand new audio recording to accompany this original Residential School...
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Cree classes teach language from the inside out
A nice piece by Brent Wittmeier from the Edmonton Journal about Reuben Quinn of Blue Quills and his “star chart” approach to teaching syllabics – and other cultural connections. Cree classes teach...
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Solomon Ratt: There is Harmony Again – With Audio
Click to listen and read along. Scroll to the bottom of this page to download the audio. This piece is written (and read) in y-dialect. Download: miyo.mp3 Click here to download audio recording.
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Solomon Ratt, 2013: “On the Threshold of a Dream”– With audio
Click the player to listen and read along with Solomon. Click the link at the bottom of the page to download the sound file. Download: dream.mp3 Please email me at creeliteracy<at>gmail.com if...
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Solomon Ratt: The Old Man and the Wihtikow – Th Dialect – With Audio
Cover image: http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51lsRgCjr6L.jpg Click the audio link for Solomon’s reading of this original story. Download: witiko2.mp3 kî‑kaskitipiskâw ikwa kî‑kîsitinithowîw....
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Dog Biscuits – Y-dialect – With Audio
Thanks to Solomon Ratt for preparing this y-dialect (Plains Cree) version – in print and audio – of this original Residential School story, written in his own th-dialect (Woodlands Cree) and...
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Neil Young’s Pocahontas – via Art Napoleon, in Cree
And if that’s not cool enough, how about the fact that I found this link on David Suzuki’s Facebook page? miywâsin! Wonder who’s going to volunter to transcribe it now in SRO! Neil Young – Pocahontas...
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Manitoba Indigenous Writers’ Festival
One of my favourite sessions at last weeks’ Manitoba Indigenous Writers Festival had to be the talk by Sherry Farrell Racette about how the work of illustrating books found its way into her life and...
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Bannock Boogie! Come eat bannock!
A great shot of energy from Art Napoleon and friends – and a probable theme song for Winnipeg’s Althea “Got Bannock?” Guiboche, celebrating her First Anniversary serving bannock to the homeless on the...
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About all those Cousins – Arok Wolvengrey
The cousin terminology of Cree is confusing to many – because it is so different from “cousin” in English. Here is, hopefully, a brief yet useful explanation. It’s important to remember that there are...
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Prairies Workshop on Languages and Linguistics
Hardy survivors of the first PWoLL, talking all things Cree over breakfast in Brandon Sunday, March 2nd. Thanks to Jeff Muehlbauer and Clare Cook, and Brandon University’s Native Studies Department for...
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A First Glimpse at DC Comics’ New Cree Superhero
Although her name and role have yet to be revealed, we’ve finally got a first peek at Jeff Lemire’s new Cree superhero inspired by real-life Cree superhero Shannen Koostachin. I love that Lemire had a...
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10th Annual Nêhiyawak Land & Language Summer Camp
For further details, visit the Facebook Group Aboriginal Friendship Centres of Saskatchewan at: https://www.facebook.com/pages/Aboriginal-Friendship-Centres-of-Saskatchewan/192129454182112
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Cree language facts for editors of English and French: Standard Spelling
Language Portal Header This article is about how SRO and Syllabics can be precisely equivalent in writing Cree. It is the third piece Dorothy Thunder and I have published through the Editors’...
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Name, powers of Justice League’s Cree heroine revealed at last
“Code-named Equinox, Miiyahbin is a 16-year-old from Moose Factory, Ontario, whose power comes from the Earth and changes with the seasons. As revealed in October, the character is inspired in part by...
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Cree Sacred Sites: Tyrone Tootoosis
[Originally posted on Facebook, December 12, 2013 at 1:46pm; reproduced here with permission.] The following is a bit of information on select locations revered and held sacred by the First Peoples of...
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