Amazing Multi-Media teaching tool from James Bay: Path of the Elders

A new discovery to me, this morning, courtesy of Cathy Wheaton: an utterly amazing online resource for James Bay Cree (and Treaty 9 Anishinaabe) at http://www.pathoftheelders.com

In addition to audio and video files of elders speaking in their own words, I was thrilled to recognize many of the names of the elders as contributors to Douglas Ellis’s text collection, http://uofmpress.ca/books/detail/cree-legends-and-narratives-from-the-west-coast-of-james-bay to which I devoted nearly three years in preparation for University of Manitoba Press, while working for the UofM’s Linguistics Department and Cree Language Project.

I confess the flash graphics of flickering campfire, and rising smoke took a couple of minutes for my black-and-white text oriented eyes to accept, but it is exciting to see this very polished, high-quality product publicly available, to anyone with an interest in Cree language and culture.