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- Summary Paradigm Tables: The Decoder Ring of Cree Verbs (y- and th-dialects) June 18, 2019
- When we had Sled Dogs (th-dialect, audio) June 13, 2019
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Category Archives: Printable
Summary Paradigm Tables: The Decoder Ring of Cree Verbs (y- and th-dialects)
In English, we don’t waste much time with verb conjugations. We can cover almost every possibility (for the simple present, at least) with just one rule: “For 3rd person singular subjects (he/she/it), add an S to the verb stem.” Try … Continue reading
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Twelve Great Ways to Help Yourself Learn Cree: Solomon Ratt (y-dialect, audio) – Clone
In this post, we assemble 12 motivational posters in Cree from Solomon Ratt, all with QR codes (supplied by Ramona Washburn), so that (with the help of a cell phone app), the posters can actually read themselves aloud! They print … Continue reading
Our Teachers: Solomon Ratt (y-dialect, audio)
âniski-kiskinwahamâkêk, tâpiskôc mîkiwahp, matotisân êkwa tipiskâwi-pîsim ᐋᓂᐢᑭᑭᐢᑭᓌᐦᐊᒫᑫᐠ, ᑖᐱᐢᑰᐨ ᒦᑭᐘᐦᑊ, ᒪᑐᑎᓵᐣ ᐁᑿ ᑎᐱᐢᑳᐏᐲᓯᒼ Teach from generation to generation, just like the tipi, the sweatlodge and the moon Thanks to Ramona Washburn for adding the QR code on the image below: … Continue reading
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Eight Great Ways to Help Yourself Learn Cree: Solomon Ratt (y-dialect, audio)
Updated: Now *Twelve* Great ways! (January 2018) If you’d like to download all eight images at once for printing, click here for the pdf. Click here for a prayer to help with Step 5. Click the audio link to listen … Continue reading
Looking ahead to 2018: Solomon Ratt’s New Calendar
The never-idle Solomon Ratt has just sent his 2018 calendar: 2018Calendar Please feel free to download and even have the pdf printed for your personal or classroom use with Sol’s best wishes and those of the Cree Literacy Network. For … Continue reading
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akihtâsona – Numbers Poster
A gorgeous printable resource from typographer Robin Mitchell Cranfield – with thanks for permission to share it! From Robin’s own blog: This printable poster (use button at bottom of post to download) displays numbers 1 – 10 in Cree, in … Continue reading
Standing with Standing Rock: Water is Life (y-dialect, audio)
Thanks to Isaac Murdoch for permission to use his image, and to Sol for translation. nikanawâpahkân. I am watching. ôta nitayân. I am here. nititisahên mawimoscikêwin. I send my prayers. niwîci-sôhkâpawimâwak Standing Rock; nipiy pimâtisiwiniwiw! I stand firm with Standing … Continue reading
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Solomon Ratt: My Life
Click here to download 11×17 pdf poster for printing.
Posted in Audio (th-dialect), Poetry, Printable, Solomon Ratt
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Solomon Ratt: nêhiyawêmototawin
nêhiyawêmototawin; nêhiyaw-ayisiyiniw niya, ninohtê-nêhiyawi-pîkiskwân. kiskinwahamawin: nêhiyawîhcikêwin mîna nêhiyawisistâwin, ninohtê-nêhiyawâtisin.
Posted in Audio (y-dialect), Printable, Solomon Ratt
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In Honour of the TRC Report: ahkamêyimok! (y-dialect)
With thanks to Solomon Ratt – and his ability to thrive against all odds – for helping express these thoughts in Cree: kimâmiyonêyimitinân mîna kimawimôstamâtinân kahkiyaw iyiniwak ohpimê wîkiwâhk ohci kâ-kî-nitawi-kiskinwahamâkosicik; ka-miyo-tôtâkosiyêk mîna ka-sôhkisiyêk. mistahi pê-âyiman kâ-mâmawi-kitimahikawêyêk mâka mîna kisôhkisinâwâw kiyâpic âtiht … Continue reading
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