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: Decolonisation
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…
The reports of our cultural deaths have always been greatly exaggerated
To hear non-Indigenous people tell it, we’ve been teetering on the edge of extinction since not too long after Contact. That narrative hasn’t changed much over the years, though the cause of our cultural and perhaps even physical demise has varied somewhat in the details. There have been moments of colonial guilt over past policies,…
Nationhood is a Verb
When settlers discuss the concept of Indigenous nationhood, the term ‘capacity’ often comes up, as in Indigenous peoples lack it. There might be some recognition that we governed ourselves before contact, though rarely is any respect or understanding shown of those socio-political orders, but the opinion of the majority of Canadians is that we cannot…