Building our Language Bundle
As adult language learners, we often need to take our language learning journey into our own hands. Come with us.
Recent Learner Library Additions
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Solsquatch Speaks
This podcast series helps parents and teachers understand the importance and value of Cree Ways of Knowing.
nîhithawîwinAdded January 9, 2025
Pêyakoskân Podcast
The Peyakôskân Podcast Initiative brings together high school students and post-secondary students from diverse cultures and backgrounds to learn the art of podcasting, collaboration and the power of storytelling to address complex social issues such as Truth & Reconciliation language revitalization, and discrimination.
âkayâsîmowinAdded January 9, 2025
A Happy Life by Morning Star Or Joe Small (1975)
From Rocky Boy’s Montana Chippewa-Cree Research. Shared by Wes Fineday
nêhiyawêwinAdded November 9, 2024
Language Projects
kiyânaw App
Currently in development, the kiyânaw App allows any learner to ask language questions and capture phrases & audio for any language or dialect with only their phone, helping build our language bundle for future generations.
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kiyânaw Database
The kiyânaw Database is a searchable repository of inflected words and phrases gathered from transcriptions and elsewhere online.
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kiyânaw Transcribe
Transcription is a powerful tool in our language-learning toolkit. kiyânaw Transcribe is free-forever online transcription software with powerful features.
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Learner library
A curated list of language and cultural resources including PDFs, videos and audio, categorized by learning level an application. Also a few hard-to-find items, for safe keeping.
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Bloomfield online
In the 1920s a linguist named Leonard Bloomfield visited several reserves in southern Saskatchewan and recorded three volumes of texts, two of which were published. Here we offer two of the publications online, Sacred Stories of the Sweetgrass Cree and Plains Cree Texts (in SRO).
Visit Bloomfield online →
tânisi?
Aaron nitisiyihkâson, asinîwâciy-wâskahikan ohci niya. 👋
My name is Aaron, I'm software engineer and language learner of nêhiyawêwin (Plains Cree, Y-dialect).
I grew up in the Rocky Mountain House area in Treaty 6 territory, my family is Métis of Red River descent (Caplette/Lafournaise) and môniyâw.
I've been learning nêhiyawêwin for about 6 years now, and as a self-study I know how hard it is to acquire an Indigenous second language as an adult.
For that reason I've tried to put together some resources here in an attempt to aide other language learners in their journey.
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