Perfect for the longest night of the year – and to celebrate the return of the sun – just as Cree people did living on the land for centuries. With snow on the ground, it is now the season for telling the âcathôhkîwin: Sacred Stories, and adventures of Wisahkecahk. Join us to listen if you can!
FaceBook Live storytelling session, featuring Solsquatch (a.k.a. Solomon Ratt). In Cree (th-dialect), with live translation into English. You will need a FaceBook account to access this live link. If we’re lucky, we can have them recorded for future listening whenever there’s snow on the ground!
https://www.facebook.com/share/1DEcYTgk5D
Looking for another platform to watch? Sol has given permission to Aaron Fay to stream the session. Aaron is prepared to stream simultaneously on three channels (maybe that’s why he’s learning three times as fast?):
On YouTube (the completed recording should remain posted there):
https://www.youtube.com/@AaronFay
On Aaron’s kiyanaw Apps FB page:
https://www.facebook.com/kiyanawapps
On Aaron’s TikTok page:
http://tiktok.com/@otipeyimisow
Sol used a haiku meme created earlier this month for his Storytelling announcement. Here’s the text and translation (audio to follow soon!)
kâ-mâwaci-kino-tipiskâk âcathohkîwin
ᑳ ᒫᐘᒋ ᑭᓄ ᑎᐱᐢᑳᐠ ᐋᒐᖪᐦᑮᐏᐣ
Solstice Storytelling with Solsquatch.
nisîhkâc mispon,
piyâhtak akwanaham
askiy manitow.
ᓂᓰᐦᑳᐨ ᒥᐢᐳᐣ,
ᐱᔮᐦᑕᐠ ᐊᑿᓇᐦᐊᒼ
ᐊᐢᑭᐩ ᒪᓂᑐᐤ᙮
Gently falling snow,
So carefully covering
the earth, Creator.
2 Responses
Happy Solstice, Cousin…(Perfect for the shortest night of the year – and to celebrate the return of the sun – just as Cree people did living on the land for centuries.) I believe there is a typo in the writing…Solstice is the longest night of the year, and Iranians call it Yalda, for which they do exactly what the Cree people do. This is the night after which the sun will start to take more time in the sky…Please correct me if I am wrong…
Thanks for the catch – fixed in a moment.