Interactive activities to help you learn Cree. Listen to songs and audio in Cree.

A virtual storybook titled Let's Go Buy Food. This storybook was developed for Plains Cree Nursery Family Units. The
storybook itself can be downloaded for free and is also available online in Flash.
Please visit http://www.giftoflanguageandculture.ca/ for many other storybooks online.

The Little Women’s Lodge Kit Stories help children to learn about traditional parenting roles and responsibilities from a young age, while also teaching them Cree language reading, writing and singing.The four Cree storybooks are the core of this resource, bringing ancient Indigenous teachings to a new generation.

Night Sky Star Stories Makinak: The Turtle
We acknowledge the support of the Canada Council for the Arts.

My Cree App is like learning Cree from your Auntie!

You are going to love how quickly and easily you begin speaking Cree. And you can start learning to speak Cree, right on your own iPhone or iPad.

Learn about Métis culture, history, and language through beautiful colouring pages paired with informative lessons. This resource contains downloadable lessons and colouring pages to go with each letter of the alphabet.

The Métis Alphabet Colouring Book is an adaptation of Joseph Jean Fauchon's popular children's book of the same name. With enhanced cultural content, this colouring book highlights historical figures, significant events, places of interest and other aspects of Métis identity to take youthful readers beyond the alphabet to explore the richness of Métis history and culture. George Gingras's images--which are meant to be coloured and are inspired by illustrations and photos--provide an engaging complement to the text. The Métis Alphabet Colouring Book strengthens Métis pride and identity while providing young readers with an informative reference book about the essence of being Métis.

Resources include:

*Métis Foundational Knowledge Themes Moodle Course for Educators (apply to join cohort)
*Languages of Métis
*Métis Culture & Traditions
*Homeland History
*Métis Nation Governance
*Master Vocabulary List

A breathtaking new release from Revv52 of Calgary, Alberta recorded and performed virtually to celebrate Canada Day 2020. The opening Prelude is an original ...
Includes Cree language and French.

Une nouvelle sortie époustouflante de Revv52 de Calgary, Alberta, enregistrée et interprétée virtuellement pour célébrer la fête du Canada 2020. Le Prélude d'ouverture est une composition originale...
Inclut la langue crie et le français.

What makes a scientist? Curiosity, a passion for learning, a desire to know how the world works! Meet Melissa Arcand, a scientist at the University of Saskatchewan who grew up on Muskeg Lake Cree Nation. Melissa loves science and soil - and she rides a bike all winter in Saskatchewan!
This short video is an interview of Melissa Arcand about her job as a soil scientist. This video fits well when looking at agriculture-related career opportunities.

In this video, Cree Elder Mary Lee shares tipi teachings that have been passed on to her from her mother and other teachers with whom she has learned during her lifetime.

The CLS(Canadian Light Source), in Saskatoon, SK, is located on Treaty Six land in the traditional territories of the Nêhiyawak (Cree), Anishinabek, Lakota, Dakota and Nakota Nations, and the homeland of the Métis. As educators, we respect Indigenous Ways of Knowing and oral traditions. We dedicate ourselves to moving forward in the spirit of partnership, reconciliation, and collaboration.

The Virtual Classroom was created to have an accessible learning platform that students and educators from across Canada and the globe, especially those in remote areas, can engage with our learning activities and resources. We want to provide the opportunity for every student to learn and connect to science contexts, whether in their classroom, in the lab, at their home, or here, in the virtual classroom

This series is a charming and often humorous look at the contemporary life of a Cree community. Set in a fictitious community in northern Saskatchewan, the animation stories follow the exploits of young Raven, Talon and their cousin T-Bear as they face challenges and learn valuable life lessons.

Educators can use the series to teach children about Cree culture and about universal themes such as honouring tradition, cooperation, self-esteem and ethics. This series is also available in French and Cree versions.

This series is a charming and often humorous look at the contemporary life of a Cree community. Set in a fictitious community in northern Saskatchewan, the animation stories follow the exploits of young Raven, Talon and their cousin T-Bear as they face challenges and learn valuable life lessons.

Educators can use the series to teach children about Cree culture and about universal themes such as honouring tradition, cooperation, self-esteem and ethics. This series is also available in English and French versions.

What does the winter solstice mean in the Cree tradition?
Elder Wildfred Buck explains how the Cree observe the shortest day of the year.

Hear words from the book in nēhiyawēwin

These activity sheets are from the book “When the Trees Crackle with Cold: A Cree Seasons Activity Book” by Bernice Johnson-Laxdal and Miriam Körner. We thank them for their permission to share these activities with you for Family Literacy Day in Saskatchewan!

Story Questions
Read and Find Activity Sheets
Look and Find Activity Sheets

tânisi!
itwêwina is a Plains Cree Dictionary.

Type any Cree word to find its English translation. You can search for short Cree words (e.g., atim) or very long Cree words (e.g., ê-kî-nitawi-kâh-kîmôci-kotiskâwêyâhk). Or you can type an English word and find its possible Cree translations. You can write words in Cree using standard Roman orthography (SRO) (e.g., acimosis) or using syllabics (e.g., ᐊᒋᒧᓯᐢ).

The spoken Cree word recordings are courtesy of speakers in Maskwacîs and Moswacîhk. The synthesized word-forms are based on recordings of a speaker from Maskêko-sâkahikanihk.

The University of Regina Press has made a number of excellent resources available online for open access. These resources, developed by Jean Okimâsis include a grammar guide, a workbook, and links to audio resources.
The resource include:
- a grammar guide, available as a PDF for download
- a link to the Language Lab user guide
- a Language Lab Workbook
- a Soundcloud link to Cree Language of the Plains audio sessions
- an Open Access link to a page that has all the above resources available in different formats.

Jean Okimâsis and Arok Wolvengrey also wrote a fantastic resource “How to Spell it in Cree“, which you can download as a PDF. It lays out the rules of a standardized written Cree, but also does important work of addressing the criticisms of standardization. It challenges the notion that we can ever use English to ‘phonetically’ represent the Cree language, champions a specific orthography for Cree, and describes how standardization, rather than destroying or degrading the language, will help ensure Cree continues to survive.