Cree
nêhiyawêwin (Cree) language learning resources
Looking for materials to help you learn nêhiyawêwin (Plains Cree Y dialect)? Here you go!
Fluency
That our languages thrive, not merely survive: Skwomesh immersion
With many Indigenous languages being listed as “critically endangered” as a result of having only a handful of fluent speakers left, it can seem like the one option left is to document these languages before they die out completely. Sort of like the linguistic version of freezing your body and Read more…
First Nations
“How can I help” answered concretely
Generally, once people become aware of Indigenous issues in a clear sense, the first question is “how can I help”? Having faced this question so many times with only vague answers in my head, I have thought a lot about how best to answer this question with something concrete. After Read more…
Cree
The Cree Classroom is a go!
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 Read more…
Aboriginal law
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 Read more…