I refer to many sources for my website articles. Without these sources, I would be spending enormous amounts of time completing my blogs about Cree. As a semi-fluent speaker, writer, and reader of Woodland Cree, the following sources are invaluable to me.
Facebook pages I follow:
Nêhiyawêwin (Cree) Word/Phrase of the Day – https://www.facebook.com/groups/18414147673/
#CreeSimonSays – https://www.facebook.com/groups/380099328844547/
Cree Language Videos – https://www.facebook.com/groups/100216916980387/
Learn Cree With Me –
https://www.facebook.com/groups/280657821548
Nêhiyawêwin for the Soul –
https://www.facebook.com/N%C3%AAhiyaw%C3%AAwin-for-the-Soul-596183750539244
Cree Language Resources ᓀᐦᐃᔭᐍᐏᐣ – https://www.facebook.com/groups/104500159643897/
Cree Media CBC –
https://www.facebook.com/creemediacbc/
This page can get somewhat political, but it does provide links to Cree language interviews and various other Cree videos.
Cree word for the day is….
https://www.facebook.com/groups/104433456306236
LLRIB Cree Language Resources – https://www.facebook.com/llribcreelanguage/
Cree Syllabics FORUM –
https://www.facebook.com/groups/1432467493636362/
YouTube Channels:
#CreeSimonSays – https://www.youtube.com/channel/UClrHhQZjSL8tDe29lOT7zQA
Cree Literacy Network –
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC-nM3vziXSX8RIjnn9D48PQ
Solomon Ratt Query – https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=solomon+ratt
Cree Phrases – https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCINEc-0LPsQ5Me2dR-LiW6w
Cathy Wheaton Bird #creebycathy – https://www.youtube.com/user/chimiskwew
BentArrowYEG –
https://www.youtube.com/user/BentArrowEdmonton/videos
Pow wow Times –
https://www.youtube.com/c/PowwowTimes/search?query=cree
BearPaw Media and Education – https://www.youtube.com/c/BearPawLegal
Aaron Fay – https://www.youtube.com/c/AaronFay
HPSD Indigenous Education – https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC2Srx8T33haoSatKO-nxvcg/videos
Websites I have used:
Learn Cree – http://learncree.ca/
In my workplace, I have been tasked to train with the web developer and provide revisions and updates. I am currently in training, it is a tech that I am not entirely familiar with. I will keep you posted.
Cree Literacy Network – https://creeliteracy.org/
This is an awesome website, it is updated regularly and shared on many relevant Cree language Facebook pages. The promotion of our beautiful language is very well presented and I love our friends from the Cree Literacy Network. Check it out yourself for the video, audio, and text.
itwêwina – A dictionary that understands what you’re looking for. – https://sapir.artsrn.ualberta.ca/cree-dictionary/
I came across this website in 2019 when I was looking for sources. There are many variations of Cree words in the linguistics column search. I use it extensively to this day.
The following websites do not translate or interpret Cree words in any way, however, they can convert SRO to syllabics.
Syllabics.net Welcome –
https://syllabics.net/
Cree SRO ⇔ syllabics converter –
https://syllabics.app/
U of R – Cree: Language of the Plains / nēhiyawēwin: paskwāwi-pīkiskwēwin
https://ourspace.uregina.ca/handle/10294/8401
This Collection has PDFs and audio files that you may download to your computer for personal use.
Online Cree Dictionary – http://www.creedictionary.com/
I have not used this website for a long time. Apparently, the audio is based on an Adobe Flash plugin whichis obsolete. Hopefully, they find the resources to replace all the Flash files and insert simple audio files.
Welcome to the Plains Cree Dictionary! – https://dictionary.plainscree.atlas-ling.ca/#/help
This is an interesting website. Unfortunately, I could not find any audio clips.
Online Dictionary of Moose Cree –
https://moosecree.ca/
This dictionary is in the L dialect. There is audio for select Cree words on the website.
The websites below are from a Google search, maybe you will find them useful in your quest to learn our beautiful language.
Pinterest (Cree Language) –
https://www.pinterest.ca/search/pins/q=cree%20language&rs=typed
Vocabulary in Native American Languages: Cree Words – http://www.native-languages.org/cree_words.htm
U of S Indigenous Languages –
https://teaching.usask.ca/indigenoussk/import/indigenous_languages.php
Cree | CBC Indigenous – Original Voices –
https://www.cbc.ca/originalvoices/language/cree/
Please feel free to share your sources as well, whether it’s a book, Elders, or other online sources.
Regarding SRO to Syllabic converters – I have used them extensively at my workplace and they are real-time savers. Copy and Paste and you are good to go. Please take your time to cross-reference with a chart if you are doing syllabics for a project. I found a glitch here and there (I contacted their support techs). I hope you will find them useful.
Cree language – nīhithawīwin
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I was anticipating that question way before the conversation, “Web Developer kīsi ātoskiyān,” I said. The look on her face was one of confusion. I did not expect her to understand in anyway and wondered how I could put it in a way she would comprehend. Out of nowhere, she said: “mamahtāwi-āpacihcikan?” (computer).
īhī, (yes) I said, ikotowa kīkway. She looked and smiled her beautiful smile because she knew she caught me off-guard. Lesson learned, just because a person is elderly, does not mean they are not paying attention to the changing world. She knew I was in a computer training program, so I guess she just put two and two together.
How would one say Web Developer? Kohkominahkīsīs iyāpiy kā osihtāt – one who makes spider web, haha, maybe not. It would likely be a reference to using a computer for work, I think. Something like, mamahtāwi-āpacihcikan katoskātahk – one who works with computers. I believe it would be the general term for maybe IT admin or computer support worker.
Maybe one of the readers of this blog has an idea, I would love to hear it. Any words having to do with computers or maybe mobile devices, would great.
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