While we’re all in isolation, we’re trying to try to post one video a day from Sol and his fellow Cree teachers. Some from his existing teaching library – and some brand new. Like Sasquatch himself, Solomon Ratt has experience with self isolation. Who better to help out with online Cree lessons for remote learning?
Today we’ve got two videos about kinship terms. The first, from Sol’s friend Grace Ithiniw Iskwêw, is child-friendly. In the second, Sol himself gives a much bigger picture of kinship terms.
Grace is a speaker of Woodland Cree (th-dialect) from Barren Lands FN: Brochet, Manitoba. She is a mother of six, a Cree teacher with Brandon School Division, and she’s working on her MA at Brandon University. Her family continues to live off the land up north, along Reindeer Lake. Her students – currently her captive audience – are her children. You can find more of her videos on Youtube.
(About Sol’s shirt: https://creeliteracy.org/2020/03/17/awas-go-away-most-dialects/)
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MIkwec for posting this. very important. Hai Hai!
Thank you for all your posts and lessons, I am also a Plains Cree teacher living in Vancouver, BC
Thank you for your great lessons which enhances my understanding about the Cree language and indigenous people