The James Bay Cree Communications Society (JBCCS) launches a puppet show to encourage young and older audiences to hear and speak Cree language.

It’s been nine years since the CBC North Indigenous Language Archives (ILA) project began its substantial and ongoing effort ...

MASKWACÎS, Alberta — Lucy Johnson never spoke the Cree language when she was growing up. Her father wouldn’t allow it. He called it “jungle talk.” He didn’t elaborate much until he was ...

John and Friends, recently launched by the James Bay Cree Communications Society, teaches Cree language, culture and ...

Bill Waawaate is Indigenous, smart, educated, and the millionaire-founder of a highly successful snowmobile company. He also is a comic book superhero from a First Nation in Canada. "The aim here ...

Arcand says. “When I went to school, they didn’t teach us our language … they didn’t acknowledge our culture.” Now, students have a different problem. Cree language programs have become ...

Darian Agecoutay never expected to find himself standing in front of a classroom teaching Cree. He did not learn the language as a child — his family did not speak Cree, and the school he attended at ...

It was the first N.H.L. broadcast in Plains Cree, the Algonquian language he grew up speaking. “It makes me so proud that they’re going to broadcast the game in my language,” he said in a ...

The Rocky Boy Reservation is home to 3,770 people, and Geboe said he thinks about 25 speak Cree as their first language. Through the initiative, East was tasked with building online courses for ...

Stories of the North, a television series filmed and produced by Campfire Stories Inc. in Saskatoon, brings Cree language and storytelling to a new generation. In a series of 10 seven-minute episo ...

During the course of the regular meeting on Monday the board of education for the Saskatchewan Rivers School Division received an update on the new Cree language Kindergarten program at John ...