WINNIPEG, Manitoba — Clarence Iron believes he is on a divine mission to revitalize the Plains Cree language through hockey. He will be the play-by-play announcer with host Earl Wood and analyst John ...
A new First Nations immersive language program inspired is looking to help preserve Plains Cree, a dialect of the Cree language. The program, called a "language nest," is a non-classroom space for ...
Blaine Mirasty grew up learning traditional Cree ways, even while around him, prejudice was common toward Indigenous people. Now he's launched an Indigenous tourism business, which gives him a chance ...
MONTREAL — Fred Sasakamoose thought this day would never come. Sasakamoose, the N.H.L.’s first Indigenous player when he skated in 11 games with the Chicago Black Hawks during the 1953-54 season, ...
Eden Fineday is a nehiyaw iskwew (Cree woman) from the Sweetgrass First Nation in Canada and the publisher of IndigiNews. Before the Smithsonian employee leaves me alone with my relative’s skull, she ...
This year, every first grade student in Canada will receive a copy of My Heart Fills with Happiness/sâkaskinêw nitêh miywêyihtamowin ohci, a picture book by Monique Gray Smith, illustrated by Julie ...
A lifelong passion for justice fuels Iowa City resident Sikowis Nobiss, who is Plains Cree/Saulteaux and a member of the George Gordon First Nation in Saskatchewan. “I feel like my ancestors put ...
Evidentials, which introduce the speaker’s perspective regarding information being presented, can be divided into at least two classes in Cree: CP‐external (with illocutionary force) and IP‐external ...
At the age of six, artist Lauren Good Day (Arikara/Hidatsa/Blackfeet/Plains Cree) learned to bead and sew from her mother and grandmother. Sensing her daughter’s ...
As the founder of the Great Plains Action Society and a member of Iowa City’s Truth and Reconciliation Commission, Iowa City’s Sikowis Nobiss works to advocate for Indigenous rights and causes around ...