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- kîkwây kiwihtamâkonaw âcathohkîwina? What do our stories tell us? Solomon Ratt (th-dialect, audio) February 21, 2019
- Chief Anus: Solomon Ratt (y-dialect) February 17, 2019
- Good news for Valentine’s Day! Solomon Ratt (th-dialect) February 13, 2019
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Category Archives: Wayne (Goodspirit) Jackson
âsônamakêwin: Passing on Teachings (Wayne Jackson, y-dialect)
âsônamawâtânik kitawâsimisinawak êkwa kitôskayôminawak kinêhiyawêwinaw. kinêhiyawêwinaw kimaskihkêminaw, tâpiskôc ê-nâtawihikoyahk. ᐋᓲᓇᒪᐚᑖᓂᐠ ᑭᑕᐚᓯᒥᓯᓇᐘᐠ ᐁᑿ ᑭᑑᐢᑲᔫᒥᓇᐘᐠ ᑭᓀᐦᐃᔭᐍᐏᓇᐤ᙮ ᑭᓀᐦᐃᔭᐍᐏᓇᐤ ᑭᒪᐢᑭᐦᑫᒥᓇᐤ, ᑖᐱᐢᑰᐨ ᐁᓈᑕᐏᐦᐃᑯᔭᕽ᙮ Let us all pass our nêhiyaw language on to our children and our youth. Nêhiyawewin is our medicine: it heals us all. … Continue reading
Cree dialogue from NFB Film The Red Dress: Wayne Jackson (y-dialect)
Thanks to Wayne Jackson for permission to share this good work originally posted in the FaceBook group Nêhiyawêwin (Cree) Word of the Day on May 10, 2018. https://www.nfb.ca/film/red_dress/ The film can be viewed online, or purchased as dvd from the National … Continue reading
It’s all about the Verbs!
Thanks to Wayne Jackson and to Janell Mistik Barrenda for sharing some beautiful videos recently on Facebook that teach about verbs. I’ll be writing more about each of them in future posts (with thanks), because, in Cree, verbs really are the … Continue reading
Wayne Jackson: tipiskâw mêkwac (y-dialect, audio)
Wayne Jackson’s translation of Rod Stewart’s “Tonight’s the Night” is hot stuff! I’d say the same about Wayne, but everybody already knows! (Thanks, Wayne, for permission to share!) Note that this is not a direct literal translation: rather, in the … Continue reading
Halloween Vocabulary from Wayne Goodspirit (y-dialect)
miyo-cîpayi-tipiskâwinisik Happy Halloween Everyone! Thanks to Wayne Goodspirit for sharing this list of Halloween vocabulary last year on Facebook, and to Sol for posing for this special-occasion portrait (as well as recording the vocabulary, divided into three audio files). Apples to … Continue reading
From Wayne Jackson on National Aboriginal Day
From Wayne Jackson, who teaches Cree at University of Blue Quills: ka-wî-miyo-nêhiyawi-kîsikanisinâwâw (tahto-kîsikâw, ayisk namôya wîhkâc ka-pôni-nêhiyawânaw) May y’all have a Happy Aboriginal Day (every day, because we’ll never stop being who we are) 😀 Special thanks and good wishes … Continue reading
Wayne Jackson’s Podmatic Cree Language Podcasts
More good listening in Cree, courtesy of Wayne Jackson and Blue Quills College. Looking forward to hearing more of Jerry Saddleback and other elders speaking Cree and talking about their understanding. hay-hay, Wayne, for letting me share this here! http://nehiyaw30.podomatic.com/ Today’s … Continue reading