I am cross posting this from a new website, sakihitowinlearning.ca. I want to keep the âpihtawikosisan blog for a wide variety of writings, while the sâkihitowin learning site is dedicated to language. All our goings on in the Cree classroom will be posted there from now on, so if that is something that interests you,…
Category: Cree
Help the Cree Classroom reach $5000!
Cree Language Classroom in Montreal campaign We are only $715 away from reaching our goal! With Indiegogo, reaching your goal is kind of a big deal, because if you don’t, the site takes 9% of what you’ve raised, and that’s a big chunk of change. Click on the massive link up top if you can…
Cree Classroom Indiegogo Campaign
This blog really started as a Cree language blog over two years ago. Back then, all I wanted to do was celebrate and explore nêhiyawêwin. It was a way for me to keep using my language even though I had moved to Montreal and was far from my home territory. I have spoken often of…
Idle No More: some ideas for Cree language revitalisation (resource focus)
Though it hasn’t been much apparent in the past year, this blog started as a Cree language blog, and I’m going to take us back into that today to discuss Cree language revitalisation. First, if you haven’t checked it out yet, I have compiled many resources to help people access Cree language materials. There are…
Language, culture, and Two-Spirit identity.
I am a huge language geek. As in, I’m a little obsessed with language and how it relates to culture, to identity, to understanding the world around you. If you speak another language, or have even tried to learn another language, you realize pretty early on that although you might be using a comparable term…