mitoni niya nêhiyaw / Cree is Who I Truly Am

As told by Sarah Whitecalf
Edited and translated by H.C. Wolfart & Freda Ahenakew
Preface by Ted Whitecalf
Series: Algonquian Text Society

Strong women dominate these reminiscences: the grandmother taught the girl whose mother refused to let her go to school, and the life-changing events they witnessed range from the ravages of the influenza ...

The Dog's Children

Edited by Leonard Bloomfield & John D. Nichols
Series: Algonquian Text Society

These are a collection of 20 stories, dictated in 1941 to Bloomfield's linguistics class, edited from manuscripts now in the National Anthropological Archives at the Smithsonian Institution, and published ...

Cree Legends and Narratives from the West Coast of James Bay

Edited by C. Douglas Ellis
As told by Simeon Scott, Xavier Sutherland, Isaiah Sutherland, John Wynne, Joel Linklater, Silas Wesley, Hannah Wynne, Gabriel Kiokee, Andrew Faries, Sophie Gunner, James Gunner, Willie Frenchman, Hannah Loon, Ellen McLeod, and John Carpenter
Series: Algonquian Text Society

This is the first major body of annotated texts in James Bay Cree, and a unique documentation of Swampy and Moose Cree (Western James Bay) usage of the 1950s and 1960s. Conversations and interviews with ...

The Counselling Speeches of Jim Ka-Nipitehtew

As told by Jim Kâ-Nîpitêhtêw
Edited by Freda Ahenakew & H.C. Wolfart
Series: Algonquian Text Society

Jim Ka-Nipitehtew was a respected Cree Elder from Onion Lake, Saskatchewan, who spoke only Cree and provided these original counselling discourses. The book offers the speeches in Cree syllabics and in ...

They Knew Both Sides of Medicine

Translated by H.C. Wolfart & Freda Ahenakew
Series: Algonquian Text Society

Born in 1912, Alice Ahenakew was brought up in a traditional Cree community in north-central Saskatchewan. As a young woman, she married Andrew Ahenakew, a member of the prominent Saskatchewan family, ...