Posted on January 28, 2019 by Jeremiah Sharpe
Elder Audrey Bone’s perspective on healing, education, and reconciliation.
Elder Audrey Bone discusses Urban Circle Training and its holistic methodology. She emphasizes the role of ceremony and the need for purpose, recognizing that the healing of reconciliation is needed for Indigenous and non-Indigenous peoples alike.
Posted on by Jeremiah Sharpe
Urban Circle uses multigenerational holistic education in efforts of reconciliation and healing.
Urban Circle is a community organization operating in the North End neighborhood of Winnipeg. Urban Circle takes a holistic attitude towards education, working with its stakeholders to achieve its goals, and prioritizes engagement with its elders.
Posted on January 16, 2019 by Kaitlyn Walcheske
Provide protocol and teachings at the High Level Native Friendship Centre Elder Ralph hopes to pass on knowledge of Indigenous ways of life in order to preserve heritage and language.
Provide protocol and teachings at the High Level Native Friendship Centre
Elder Ralph hopes to pass on knowledge of Indigenous ways of life in order to preserve heritage and language.
Posted on November 26, 2018 by Jeremiah Sharpe
Neecheewam Inc. strives to cultivate life skills through the development of relationships and culturally appropriate teachings.
Neecheewam Inc. strives to cultivate life skills through the development of relationships and culturally appropriate teachings.
Posted on November 5, 2018 by Yvonne Benjoe
Donna Lerat teaches early learners their Cree identity through language and music at the K’Awasis Daycare.
Donna Lerat is the Director of the K’Awasis Daycare on Cowesses First Nation, Saskatchewan. She has observed her community lose their cultural identity and language. At the Daycare, Lerat has implemented an Indigenous language and cultural protocols program for early learners to age twelve. By introducing young people, and the daycare staff, to Cree language and traditions, Lerat hopes to be part of the change whereby young people learn Cree, and learn, not just how to, but why they practice Cree cultural protocols and traditions. Cree language recordings and music are played throughout the day and children practice vocabulary related to numeracy, months, animals, basic words, and phrases related to greetings. Opportunities to engage early learners in Cree language acquisition will better equip them to learn Cree in school settings and that success will, hopefully, make them proud and confident Cree language speakers.
Posted on November 2, 2018 by Kaitlyn Walcheske
The ASLA program, developed by Dr. S. Neyooxet Greymorning, is being delivered by Paula Mackinaw to teach Cree with the Miyo Wahkotowin Education Authority in Maskwacis, Alberta.
The Accelerated Second Language Acquisition (ASL) program, developed by Dr. Steven Neyooxet Greymorning, has been modified and is being delivered by Paula Mackinaw with the Miyo Wahkotowin Education Authority in Maskwacis, Alberta. The ASLA program is taught in the target language, Cree, and is very repetitive and forces the learner to think in the target language. It is all oral with many visuals. It helps students develop an identity and traditional culture. It produces thinkers and speakers of the language taught.
Posted on October 11, 2018 by Timothy Merasty
Using a Cree immersion curriculum, the Kihew Waciston Cree Immersion School provides youth with opportunities to know who they are and where they come from.
The Kihew Waciston (Onion Lake) Cree Immersion School was developed in 2005 by a Cree linguist, Brian Macdonald, and local leadership. The school educates the next generation of language and cultural keepers and focuses on language retention, spoken language, and Cree identity. The school’s language outcomes are adapted from the provincial curriculum, but remain centered around speaking, listening, reading, and writing. They follow four foundational objectives which include: language development, kinship, identity, and reminding the youth about who they are. The school’s curriculum has been developed using the Gift of Language immersion program, which is intended for early childhood to Grade 4. The school hopes to engage more language learners as new curriculum for additional grades are developed.
