I live and was born in Montreal. Son of Greek immigrants. I’m proud of being Canadian and am proud and stand strong with the Indigenous peoples of this country. I love their languages, their culture their love of nature and its wildlife and their long beautiful history. THEY are the TRUE Canadians! We must understand and realize that we are their guests! NOT the other way around! God bless them and protect them!
Did some family research and found out my Great Great Grandfather who lived in Norway House was a Cree man who became a priest for the church. He helped convert the bible into the language of his people. He eventually left because the church wanted him to lose his native ways, he wanted to combine the two. Love being able to hear this.
The Cree language should be the national language of Canada because the Cree people are the most dominant tribe in Canada. The founders of Canadian society. I prefer to call the Cree language: the Canadian language.
Tansi wakomakanak? Kokomak ikwa mosumak 🤗 yotin pimohkitiw napew nitsikason. Kisakitin Nihiyawak. In English it means, How are you all my relations? Grandmothers and grandfathers. My name is windwalker man. I love you cree people 🤗 kakiyaw, all of you. Wapisewsipi, Alberta ochi niya. I am from swan river First Nation in Alberta. Nanaskomowin, a thank you from my being. Hiy Hiy
as a learner from scratch, she is right, knowing Syllabics Helps GREATLY in learning to remember words. Latin/SRO, words are just a chain of letters,letters,letters ... but with Syllabics, there's one additional help your brain is getting, when you're learning new words. writing, and rewriting and rewriting new words (as I say them out loud) in syllabics helps me to 1. remember the word's written shape also, so for example it gets engraved in my brain that the verb "I laugh at him/her" is nipahpihaaw, and not nipahpehaaw, or nipehpihaaw or nipehpitaaw or whatever else. It also, gives my brain a TRUE understanding of the length of the words, how they get a syllalbe or two (or three) longer depending on what suffix you add. It just is great practice. Highly recommending you all practice writing in Syllabics from the get go.
Elder Arcand is certainly dedicated and patient, as many Indigenous Elders are. Elders hold an important role and part of that is to give people teachings. Thanks for your interest :)
Thank you so much for posting this, it’s so fascinating and comforting to hear my elders’ language being spoken! My grandmother was half Cree, half Polish-Ukrainian and adopted by a white family in the 1950s so she tragically grew up without her culture and language but learned what she could as she got older and taught her children who have taught us - I am sure it would fill my kookum’s heart with the utmost joy to hear her family speak the language and practice the culture that was taken from her, to know that this legacy lives on despite anything that has tried to destroy it and that her spirit stays alive in all of us I love learning languages and think the way this woman teaches is genius and don’t know how people could ever teach a language any other way. Active and passive learning are both so important.
What a beautiful language! To me, it's rhythmic, yet calming. Elder Isabel has such a calming voice, it's ASMR-ish to listen to her speak. I could listen to her for hours!
she reminds me sooo much of my dad! he's half cree and grew up on a reserve in northern ontario. cree people have a certain vibe, humor, attitude etc. lol love it.
My mother is Métis! Her native half is Cree so I really want to learn how to speak Cree and Michif but I am gonna start with Cree so that Michif will hopefully be easier to learn 😅
My mother's mother is from the Carry The Kettle nation in Saskatchewan and married a Blackfoot from southern Alberta. My mother left home at 16 or 17 and ended up in Winnipeg where she met my dad. My dad went to jail when I was a few months old and my mother started dating a French dude who convinçed her to give me up to my father's parents (Welsh/Irish) when I was 2. Never saw her again after that and was disconnected from my Native heritage and never learned Cree. My dad's father spoke fluent Irish (Gaeilge) so I learned some of that. I'm turning 50 in a few months and thought it would be cool to learn some Cree, although like my Irish and French, I'll probably hardly ever actually use it.
The cree people and the language was taught originally verbally and visually. I've learned a lot of my peoples language by listen to our elders and repeating things and one word can mean multiple things which is why the visual aspect of it plays a huge roll especially in children because they are more adaptive to catch on from what they see.
I’m Australian and my partner is Cree, she’s the most beautiful woman I’ve ever met, and her culture is something special to me, and I’m of European decent. ❤ Bless you.
I think these communities need to have an overhaul with their language instruction approach. If parents and grandparents would sponsor their children and grandchildren in twice or three times a week group lessons, it would be an affordable way to keep the language going. But consistency would have to be the key. The instructors would have to be committed, and be willing to go just beyond the basics, and the students would also really have to want it. It would be ideal too if it were a required course in elementary/middle school.
Very interesting to learn about the cultural aspects of your language. It sounds really beautiful when you speak it. Thank you for sharing it with us! Greetings from Sweden 😊
that's awesome. sweden is where my grandpa came from. when he met my grandma here in canada he learned to speak cree really well and adopted her culture. he never even learned to speak english. lol
I speak some Southern Michif, which is half French and half Cree (Métis language), so this is strange to hear because it’s like I can almost understand it but missing all the details! But I was surprised how similar it sounds too. Beautiful language, beautiful people. Thank you for sharing, pishishkapamishsho!
I always wished that reservations that have the funding would teach the kids at least a bit of their native language in school, in addition to their own histories. Anything to keep the languages and histories from being forgotten
I live beside Sturgeon Lake Cree Nation by Grande Prairie. I've met many beautiful souls from there. My grandmother's side is Cree. Meadow Lake Sask. 🤍
I love what you said about " learning", made me happy to know I was not wrong to teach the language my way..,conversational is better to learn.., kinanaskomtin hiy hiy
Tansi! hope all is well for you. love hearing people speak cree i lost what i knew when i was a little kid and had to learn english for school. always wanted to relearn what i lost. little story i always love. my mosom was from sweden and when he came to canada and met my kokum he lived with her family and learned to speak cree never bothering to learn english. lol
I find myself repeating the Cree word or words in my mind , however; when coming out it’s the accent that needs work I learned English first some Cree words can never be translated into engish so,. With that said keep learning and network w / others in keeping this spiritual language alive
Just today i recorded myself saying the syllabic chart, listened and repeated over and over, and than sped up the playback and practiced the pronounciation with myself and than went and started just tracing over the chart while saying the syllabic. Doing this im hoping to learn to read them. This helped me out to recognize them but i am slow at reading them
I need to learn Cree. I also need a Cree shaman to put me back in the dark so I can speak. I meditated and blacked out. All I remember is a massive dark place where I heard this native American chant. but not like the chants it was just speaking. sounded identical to this lady. As I came too I felt my mouth and was shocked to feel my speaking the vowels perfectly. I knew I was speaking a legit language but I did not know what nation. So I searched all different types of native speakers and then I heard her speak. Last night when I heard her speak I cried, overcome with emotion. Then I found out my Grate grandmother was full blooded cree. I need to find out what was being spoken through me and the only way to do this is a medicine wheel.
Language comes from natives all around the cold lands or small areas of threes or grass and plain nature woods to to ice surfaces or lands but getting lost is not the word to it only....it's to ah ahh all to in the...cold wind airs...la la...do they sell "pikas or picas" lalalala....the bread field is miles miles miles miles away or a mile away if you live close by. Natota to Nipawi to Naki to Awas to Sepeskinaste "later..." . Koci (Try it). You can translate from a Indigenous.. Cree translation.
I think this is an Indigenous elder wanting to hoard the ways of their culture and lord it over people. That's a huge problem in our cultures. Cree is spoken differently for everyone and it reveals your moral standing.
I live and was born in Montreal. Son of Greek immigrants. I’m proud of being Canadian and am proud and stand strong with the Indigenous peoples of this country. I love their languages, their culture their love of nature and its wildlife and their long beautiful history. THEY are the TRUE Canadians! We must understand and realize that we are their guests! NOT the other way around! God bless them and protect them!
What a brown nosed virtue signal.
ᑖᓂᓯ ᐁᑿ ᐦᐃᐩ ᐦᐃᐩ (hello and thank you) from a cree man in saskatchewan, you say what needs to be said
Thank you for your support
I'd like to learn Cree from you Madame. Hope to meet you soon.
@@shepherdboy2982 sounds like Finnish language!!
I love that she keeps saying "Eh". A beautiful linguistic blend of Cree and Canadian English :-D
Tapwe 👍🏾
@@moosejuice1721 Yes sir
european english, as canada is just a de fcato bussines corporartion on our land.
aren’t native people asian, i’m native btw
Did some family research and found out my Great Great Grandfather who lived in Norway House was a Cree man who became a priest for the church. He helped convert the bible into the language of his people. He eventually left because the church wanted him to lose his native ways, he wanted to combine the two. Love being able to hear this.
Wow, amazingly interesting language.
We appreciate that! If you're in the Edmonton Area, we encourage you to come by for any of our teachings!
@@BentArrowYEG will you be kicking up again after covid?
@@tolosonberg We certainly have! Come pay us a visit!
The Cree language should be the national language of Canada because the Cree people are the most dominant tribe in Canada. The founders of Canadian society. I prefer to call the Cree language: the Canadian language.
A whole lot of wisdom and love comes through grandmothers like this one, we need to relearn respect for our elders! HIY HIY
Hiy Hiy!
Tansi wakomakanak? Kokomak ikwa mosumak 🤗 yotin pimohkitiw napew nitsikason. Kisakitin Nihiyawak. In English it means, How are you all my relations? Grandmothers and grandfathers. My name is windwalker man. I love you cree people 🤗 kakiyaw, all of you. Wapisewsipi, Alberta ochi niya. I am from swan river First Nation in Alberta. Nanaskomowin, a thank you from my being. Hiy Hiy
as a learner from scratch, she is right, knowing Syllabics Helps GREATLY in learning to remember words. Latin/SRO, words are just a chain of letters,letters,letters ... but with Syllabics, there's one additional help your brain is getting, when you're learning new words. writing, and rewriting and rewriting new words (as I say them out loud) in syllabics helps me to 1. remember the word's written shape also, so for example it gets engraved in my brain that the verb "I laugh at him/her" is nipahpihaaw, and not nipahpehaaw, or nipehpihaaw or nipehpitaaw or whatever else. It also, gives my brain a TRUE understanding of the length of the words, how they get a syllalbe or two (or three) longer depending on what suffix you add. It just is great practice.
Highly recommending you all practice writing in Syllabics from the get go.
I wonder if she is a career educator or just naturally a teacher, because she comes off as really dedicated and patient person.
Elder Arcand is certainly dedicated and patient, as many Indigenous Elders are. Elders hold an important role and part of that is to give people teachings. Thanks for your interest :)
Thank you so much for posting this, it’s so fascinating and comforting to hear my elders’ language being spoken! My grandmother was half Cree, half Polish-Ukrainian and adopted by a white family in the 1950s so she tragically grew up without her culture and language but learned what she could as she got older and taught her children who have taught us - I am sure it would fill my kookum’s heart with the utmost joy to hear her family speak the language and practice the culture that was taken from her, to know that this legacy lives on despite anything that has tried to destroy it and that her spirit stays alive in all of us
I love learning languages and think the way this woman teaches is genius and don’t know how people could ever teach a language any other way. Active and passive learning are both so important.
Your words are very kind and insightful! Hiy Hiy!
What a beautiful language! To me, it's rhythmic, yet calming. Elder Isabel has such a calming voice, it's ASMR-ish to listen to her speak. I could listen to her for hours!
Thank you for the kind words.
she reminds me sooo much of my dad! he's half cree and grew up on a reserve in northern ontario. cree people have a certain vibe, humor, attitude etc. lol love it.
kind of like how everybody calls each other . tuguy in a friendly way. lol
Awesome!!!! It's so nice to learn my language I love it! ❤ Comment from my kids
My mother is Métis! Her native half is Cree so I really want to learn how to speak Cree and Michif but I am gonna start with Cree so that Michif will hopefully be easier to learn 😅
My mother's mother is from the Carry The Kettle nation in Saskatchewan and married a Blackfoot from southern Alberta. My mother left home at 16 or 17 and ended up in Winnipeg where she met my dad. My dad went to jail when I was a few months old and my mother started dating a French dude who convinçed her to give me up to my father's parents (Welsh/Irish) when I was 2. Never saw her again after that and was disconnected from my Native heritage and never learned Cree. My dad's father spoke fluent Irish (Gaeilge) so I learned some of that. I'm turning 50 in a few months and thought it would be cool to learn some Cree, although like my Irish and French, I'll probably hardly ever actually use it.
Thank you for sharing your story. :)
The cree people and the language was taught originally verbally and visually. I've learned a lot of my peoples language by listen to our elders and repeating things and one word can mean multiple things which is why the visual aspect of it plays a huge roll especially in children because they are more adaptive to catch on from what they see.
I just found out I am Cree!
I’m Australian and my partner is Cree, she’s the most beautiful woman I’ve ever met, and her culture is something special to me, and I’m of European decent. ❤ Bless you.
I think these communities need to have an overhaul with their language instruction approach. If parents and grandparents would sponsor their children and grandchildren in twice or three times a week group lessons, it would be an affordable way to keep the language going. But consistency would have to be the key. The instructors would have to be committed, and be willing to go just beyond the basics, and the students would also really have to want it. It would be ideal too if it were a required course in elementary/middle school.
Interesting to listen to this very rare and unique language.
The sound of this lenguage is amazing...
Wonderful words... I don´t understand the Cree Language, but I feel it in my heart...
My dad and my mom speak cree, I feel like im used to this.
I can understand everything she's saying 😌
It's good to see natives being proud of their culture and owning their history.
Very interesting to learn about the cultural aspects of your language. It sounds really beautiful when you speak it. Thank you for sharing it with us! Greetings from Sweden 😊
that's awesome. sweden is where my grandpa came from. when he met my grandma here in canada he learned to speak cree really well and adopted her culture.
he never even learned to speak english. lol
@@darkrose474 So do you know Cree?
Thanks for tuning in from across the ocean!
I’m Native American but never learned the language and would love for me and my 9 year old son to learn the language.
I am not Cree, but I sure wish you were my teacher!! You're a lovely person and I enjoyed listening to your language and culture...Keep it up!!!
I love reading and writing in syllabics 😁
I speak some Southern Michif, which is half French and half Cree (Métis language), so this is strange to hear because it’s like I can almost understand it but missing all the details! But I was surprised how similar it sounds too. Beautiful language, beautiful people. Thank you for sharing, pishishkapamishsho!
Thank you Allison! Hiy hiy!
Very beautiful language, easy on the ears.
Crees, Denes, Mohawks, Iroquois, And Lakotas have lots of linguistical and cultural relations yeah
I always wished that reservations that have the funding would teach the kids at least a bit of their native language in school, in addition to their own histories. Anything to keep the languages and histories from being forgotten
I live beside Sturgeon Lake Cree Nation by Grande Prairie. I've met many beautiful souls from there. My grandmother's side is Cree. Meadow Lake Sask. 🤍
Wonderfully filmed. Thank you for sharing.
Thank you
Culture is strength, understanding is from our hearts
My friend said I could learn the cree language because I love learning languages and cultures
I love what you said about " learning", made me happy to know I was not wrong to teach the language my way..,conversational is better to learn.., kinanaskomtin hiy hiy
Hiy Hiy :)
Very cool
I’m a Quebec Cree, this cree language is very different. But some Cree words are the same in our Cree (Quebec)
greetings from northern manitoba
I am a descendant of a Cree tribeswoman. She was my 5th great-grandmother. Her name was Clearing Sky Woman.
What an incredible person!
Wow I can understand her abit I’m wemindji cree Quebec👍
Ever hear of the last name Junecott. I'm friends with an Aboriginal who was put into the adoption system as a baby he's cree and his father's from BC
Shout out from Maliseet nation, relative language with lots of similar words.
I speak Cree. And I completely understand what she is saying .
Tansi! hope all is well for you.
love hearing people speak cree i lost what i knew when i was a little kid and had to learn english for school. always wanted to relearn what i lost.
little story i always love.
my mosom was from sweden and when he came to canada and met my kokum he lived with her family and learned to speak cree never bothering to learn english. lol
Thank you for sharing this with us! Interesting story.
I speak cree ,proud to be an indigenous
i can't anyone with gacha in their name seriously
Hello ! R u cree from canada ? Would you say Cree is the most widely spoken native language in canada ?
africaRBG yes it is I believe over 100,000 know how to speak cree
I want my son to learn Cree. My son's is Cree, his Nanny is from Montana, and is Cree. But my son doesn't know anything about his heritage.
I’m a younger plains Cree. I miss hearing my kukoms speaking Cree around me. I came her for comfort lol
Lovely lady
I’m staring to wonder if I don’t have a speech impediment and this why I pronounce my T as D
Truly amazing 🤩
🌧🌈☀🌙The healing rainbow coming in time indeed, parting the dark cloud & grey skies as it shines brightly again; slan go foill(bye for now)
im english with no zero links to this language, but i would love to learn plains cree
I find myself repeating the Cree word or words in my mind , however; when coming out it’s the accent that needs work I learned English first some Cree words can never be translated into engish so,. With that said keep learning and network w / others in keeping this spiritual language alive
There’s a cree app you could download it helped me a lot it’s called cree FHQ
Just today i recorded myself saying the syllabic chart, listened and repeated over and over, and than sped up the playback and practiced the pronounciation with myself and than went and started just tracing over the chart while saying the syllabic. Doing this im hoping to learn to read them. This helped me out to recognize them but i am slow at reading them
my grandad knows cree . but he didnt want to teach it to my aunts and dad casue of racism
I just found out I have a cree relative native women Rupert's land. What is that about?? Who will I be able to find her I will have to dig deeper.
I need to learn Cree. I also need a Cree shaman to put me back in the dark so I can speak. I meditated and blacked out. All I remember is a massive dark place where I heard this native American chant. but not like the chants it was just speaking. sounded identical to this lady. As I came too I felt my mouth and was shocked to feel my speaking the vowels perfectly. I knew I was speaking a legit language but I did not know what nation. So I searched all different types of native speakers and then I heard her speak. Last night when I heard her speak I cried, overcome with emotion. Then I found out my Grate grandmother was full blooded cree. I need to find out what was being spoken through me and the only way to do this is a medicine wheel.
If you ever find yourself in Edmonton, Alberta, come visit us. :)
what the name of the music please ? .)
Miigwech Nokomis ( thank you Grandmother in Ojibwe) whoever is wondering what I said.
Can understand you a bit i’m cree
Should be an official language in Alberta
Hello. I would love to know what song is playing in the beginning? 🙏❤
I swear, Cree is the hardest fucking language I learned in my life.
Same XD
Though it's my language QwQ;
there’s a lot of different Cree languages, I speak different Cree and I don’t really understand her
I understand some words but I’m a different cree
Does Anybody here knows Cree language?
So fricken funny how the captions are trying to write down what she's saying 😂 hiy hiy.
Does Cree not have the sound L?
I’m pretty sure this one dialect has it. I forgot which one though
@@kittywhiskers111 Interesting. It sounds so off to me, as it reminds me of Finnish - but it has no L or R sounds. I'd love to hear that dialect
Moose cree i think
@@kittywhiskers111 alright thanks
This Is My Cree Language I Love My GrandFathers
I speak cree
Im cree to but different
Me too, Quebec cree😊
Meegwetch 🤲
oh yeah cree! you guys are in Civilization 6 congrats
Language comes from natives all around the cold lands or small areas of threes or grass and plain nature woods to to ice surfaces or lands but getting lost is not the word to it only....it's to ah ahh all to in the...cold wind airs...la la...do they sell "pikas or picas" lalalala....the bread field is miles miles miles miles away or a mile away if you live close by. Natota to Nipawi to Naki to Awas to Sepeskinaste "later..." . Koci (Try it). You can translate from a Indigenous.. Cree translation.
Nana-Mouskouri Ojitos Latinos utube Just won big.
I seepk cree
The Cree without an open mind? Good luck. It is an optical image language. You need to be there.
Sylabics is out dated from Catholic Church from 19 century
Could please tell me or write down how to say in cree There is no one like our God.
Moonuh ayuk ithtow tweehan muntu lol jus spelling it how it sounds
You can use SRO
Tân'te-ê-wîkîyan (were do you live) UwU me:the face
Sister:UwU
Me:👁👄👁
are u 5 years old?
Mix of finnish and inuit
Her cree is good...but if like to teach better cree...I'm 98 percent cree fluent of the 21st century living language
Snee eye 💀
you should live in the city of edmonton
Sylabics is dated...never used in living language...invented by roman catholic
I think this is an Indigenous elder wanting to hoard the ways of their culture and lord it over people. That's a huge problem in our cultures. Cree is spoken differently for everyone and it reveals your moral standing.