Whether you’re feeling like a proud Canadian today, or hoping for better days ahead, I hope you’ll join us in celebrating Akina Shirt’s performance – in Plains Cree – of O Canada in this 2007 YouTube video. Akina – from Saddle Lake, Alberta – was 13 when she made this memorable performance at a Calgary Flames hockey game. We don’t have a transcript of the text as Akina sang it, but you can sing along in Plains Cree thanks to Dolores Sand.
Dolores sings her own translation in this recording:
O Canada
O Canada
nîkinân nitaskînân
kisâkihitinân ôta kâ-wîkiyâhk
nitêhinâhk kiwâpamitinân
sohki-kîwêtinohk
pikw îtê ôta, O Canada
ka-sîhtoskâtinân.
nohtâwînân kanawêyihta.
O Canada, kinîpawîstamâtinân;
O Canada, kinîpawîstamâtinân.
ᐆ ᑲᓇᑕ
ᐆ ᑲᓇᑕ
ᓃᑭᓈᐣ ᓂᑕᐢᑮᓈᐣ
ᑭᓵᑭᐦᐃᑎᓈᐣ ᐆᑕ ᑳ ᐑᑭᔮᕽ
ᓂᑌᐦᐃᓈᕽ ᑭᐚᐸᒥᑎᓈᐣ
ᓱᐦᑭ ᑮᐍᑎᓄᕽ
ᐱᑹᑌ ᐆᑕ, ᐆ ᑲᓇᑕ
ᑲ ᓰᐦᑐᐢᑳᑎᓈᐣ
ᓄᐦᑖᐑᓈᐣ ᑲᓇᐍᔨᐦᑕ
ᐆ ᑲᓇᑕ, ᑭᓃᐸᐑᐢᑕᒫᑎᓈᐣ
ᐆ ᑲᓇᑕ, ᑭᓃᐸᐑᐢᑕᒫᑎᓈᐣ
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This was an awesome singing, she really has the Cree dialect to the words. Beautiful voice to
Hiy hiy