Category Archives: Remembrance Day

From the 75th Anniversary of the D-Day Invasion (y-dialect, audio

Posted on June 11, 2019 by Arden Ogg

Harry Raine, a Maskwacis Cree elder of the Louis Bull Tribe, brought the Cree language to Juno beach in Normandy to commemorate the 75th Anniversary of D-day 6 June 2019, and the Battle of Normandy. In honour of the fallen, … Continue reading →

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ithiniw-simâkanisihkânak / Indian Veterans: Solomon Ratt (th-dialect)

Posted on October 30, 2017 by Arden Ogg

A new poem (2017) by Solomon Ratt to recognize the sacrifice of Indigenous Veterans, and the shameful treatment they received on their return.  Click here to read the story about Sol’s poem reported by the Office of the Treaty Commissioner: http://www.otc.ca/reconciliations/details/indigenous_veterans.html … Continue reading →

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Flanders yikwahaskānihk : “In Flanders Fields”

Posted on November 8, 2015 by Arden Ogg

Thanks to the Office of the Treaty Commissioner for sharing this video of Dolores Sand’s reading in Cree of this important annual remembrance. The full text is given below, followed by Neal McLeod’s comments on the vocabulary. In Flanders Fields … Continue reading →

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Cree Code Talker Documentary

Posted on November 4, 2015 by Arden Ogg

  From CBC: More than 70 years after Charles ‘Checker’ Tomkins served in the Second World War, his once top-secret story is being brought to life in a documentary film. Film director Alexandra Lazarowich is making a 10-minute documentary about Second … Continue reading →

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Cree Code Talkers

Posted on November 11, 2014 by Arden Ogg

Binyon’s verse follows Flanders Fields as an important poem of remembrance. In part, it reads, They shall grow not old, as we that are left grow old: Age shall not weary them, nor the years condemn. At the going down of … Continue reading →

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