Coffee and Cree

Neil Redcrow is a cree language enthusiast and teacher through acimowin opaspiw Society.

Neil is from Onihcikiskwapiwinihk (Saddle Lake, AB) but currently residing in Amiskwaciy Waskahikan (Edmonton.)

Neil is also heavily involved within cultural and language projects.

As a husband and father, Neil Joins us for an episode dedicated to parenting words and positive words of affirmation to teach our children.

We also introduce pre verbs like nitaw (go) and pê (come) and revisit personal pronouns.

Les Skinner joins Rellikf or this weeks episode of Coffee and Cree.

Les is a Cree Teacher with the Canadian Native Friendship Centre as well as the Edmonton Public Libraries.and online classes. Les also teaches nēhiyawēwin classes through Concordia University and Grant Macewan University.

Les has been teaching the Cree classes for over ten years, after attending them himself to regain his language.

He aims to create a community among the students, as well as preserve the language and the traditional knowledge it holds.

Les teaches us words related to hunting and the bush, teaches us how to hunt and shares a memorable encounter with a skunk!

Dorothy Thunder joins us for our inaugural episode of Coffee and Cree. Dorothy Thunder is a Plains Cree (nêhiyawiskwêw) from Little Pine First Nation, Saskatchewan and full-time Cree instructor in Faculty of Native Studies at the University of Alberta.

She is a Language Keeper, educator, and an Aboriginal woman who practices the traditional way of life.

In this episode Dorothy teaches us words related to the fall season and also touches on animacy, diminutives, personal pronouns, VAI verbs and conversational departing phrases.