May
23
What do you know about farming among the Prairie nations? Here’s what I knew. I knew that after the annihilation of our main economic base, the buffalo, native peoples in the Prairies were encouraged to become farmers. I knew that … Continue reading
Nov
04
napatêhkasikan cî ahpô wîhkihkasikan? Pie, or cake? Answering “both” is of course understandable, but I like to think that just as some people are ‘dog’ people while others are ‘cat’ people, some of us will take a pie over a … Continue reading
Categories: Cree vocabulary, Imperative/command form, Language learning, Plains Cree
Tags: recipe in Cree
Oct
24
In the Language and Culture Links section of this blog I linked to a Cree Family Unit site that I stumbled across years ago. As you can see from the URL, it appears to have been developed in Saskatchewan as … Continue reading
Categories: Cree vocabulary, Culture, Kinship, Language learning, Plains Cree, Word lists
Tags: cree kinship

