Dictionary of Moose Cree receives Ontario Heritage Award

It’s always nice to see good work officially acknowledged. For me, it’s even better to see a new Cree dictionary completed and offered to its community, because I know the depth and care that work requires. Here’s a March 2018 article from the United Church Observer that acknowledges Geraldine Govender of Moose Factory, lead linguist Kevin Brousseau and their hard-working team.

Read the whole article here (with lots of additional links):

https://www.ucobserver.org/culture/2018/03/geraldine-govender-moose-cree-dictionary/

Another exciting development is the online “Talking Dictionary” of Ililîmowin (Moose Cree, l-dialect),  that can be found at:

http://http://talkingdictionary.swarthmore.edu/

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