Cree Literacy Network

For National Indigenous Languages Day, 31 March 2025: Solomon Ratt (th-dialect) 

Thanks to Solomon Ratt for sharing this early – especially since he’ll be doing 12 interviews that day! I hope we get to catch at least some of them (and I’m glad that – even if we don’t – we can still enjoy these audio clips and celebration the Cree language any time we please! 

pîkiskwîtân kipîkiskwîwininawa.

sipwîhîtân.
kikayâsi-nikamowininawa.

âstam, âstam, âcathôhkâtotân.
sipwîhîtân kikayâsi-nikamowininawa.

itwêwina mitahtahkwaniwina
ispithâwa kikihci-âniskotâpâninâhk.

ᐲᑭᐢᑹᑖᐣ ᑭᐲᑭᐢᑹᐏᓂᓇᐘ᙮

ᓯᐿᐦᐄᑖᐣ᙮
ᑭᑲᔮᓯ ᓂᑲᒧᐏᓂᓇᐘ᙮

ᐋᐢᑕᒼ, ᐋᐢᑕᒼ, ᐋᒐᖫᐦᑳᑐᑖᐣ᙮
ᓯᐿᐦᐄᑖᐣ ᑭᑲᔮᓯ ᓂᑲᒧᐏᓂᓇᐘ᙮

ᐃᑘᐏᓇ ᒥᑕᐦᑕᐦᑿᓂᐏᓇ
ᐃᐢᐱᖭᐘ ᑭᑭᐦᒋ ᐋᓂᐢᑯᑖᐹᓂᓈᕽ᙮

For National Indigenous Languages Day

Let’s speak our languages.
Let’s start singing our old songs.

Come, come, let’s tell each other traditional stories.
Let’s start singing our old songs.
Words are wings
That fly to the place of our great-great-grandchildren.

Solomon Ratt (th-dialect)