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Primary Junior Indigenous Education Resources

Resources for K-6 teachers.

Cree Dictionaries and Grammars

Online Cree Dictionary: Based on the TH-dialect (Northern Cree) and Y-dialect (Plains Cree).

Alberta Elders' Cree Dictionary by Nancy LeClaire; George Cardinal; Earle Waugh (Editor); Thelma J. Chalifoux (Foreword by)
Call Number: PM 988 .L42 1998 (Stauffer and Education)
ISBN: 0888643098
Publication Date: 2002-03-01
Cree Language Structures by Freda Ahenakew
Call Number: PM987 .A34 1987 (Stauffer and Education)
ISBN: 0919143423
Nēhiưyawēwin: itwēwin / Cree: Words, a Cree-English Dictionary by Arok Wolvengrey (Compiled by); University of Regina, Canadian Plains Research Center Staff (Contributors)
Call Number: PM988 W658 2001 (Stauffer and Education)
ISBN: 0889771278
Publication Date: 2011-11-30

Resources for Learning Cree

100 Days of Cree by Neal McLeod; Arok Wolvengrey (Contribution by)
Call Number: Online + print PM986 .M36 2016 (Education)
ISBN: 9780889774292
Publication Date: 2016-06-30
Beginning Cree by Solomon Ratt; Holly Martin (Illustrator)
Call Number: Online; PM986 .R38 2016 (Education)
ISBN: 9780889774353
Publication Date: 2016-09-29
Cree, Language of the Plains: Nēhiyawēwin paskwāwi-pīkiskwēwin by Jean L. Okimāsis
Call Number: Online + in print PM 987 .O38 1999 (Education)
ISBN: 0889771200
Workbook to accompany Cree, Language of the Plains: Nēhiyawēwin paskwāwi-pīkiskwēwin by Jean Okimasis; Solomon Ratt
Call Number: PM987 .O38 1999 Student Workbook (Education)
ISBN: 0889771227
Publication Date: 1999-12-07
Spoken Cree I by C. Douglas Ellis
Call Number: PM987 .E453 2000 (Stauffer)
ISBN: 0888643470
Publication Date: 2000-12-01
Spoken Cree II by C. Douglas Ellis
Call Number: Online
ISBN: 0888643969
Publication Date: 2004-04-29

Cree Reading Material

Âh-âyîtaw isi ê-kî-kiskêyihtahkik maskihkiy = They Knew Both Sides of Medicine by Alice Ahenakew; Freda Ahenakew (Translator); Algonquian Text Society Staff; H. C. Wolfart (Translator); University of Manitoba Press Staff (Translator)
Call Number: Online; PM 989.A44 A4 2000
ISBN: 0887556493
Publication Date: 2000-11-22
Ana kâ-pimwêwêhahk okakêskihkêmowina = The Counselling Speeches of Jim Kâ-Nîpitêhtê by Freda Ahenakew (Translator); H. C. Wolfart (Translator)
ISBN: 9780887556487
Publication Date: 1988-01-01

Online Cree Learning

Picture Books in Cree

Anakonata by Alis Lenkleitor; Chesi Teilor
Call Number: PM989.L56 A62 2005 (Education, Floor 1)
ISBN: 9780919523814
Caribou Song = atihko nikamon by Tomson Highway; John Rombough (Illustrator)
Call Number: PS8565.I39 C27 2013 (Education, Floor 1)
ISBN: 9781897252611
Publication Date: 2013-04-17
Dragonfly Kites = pimithaagansa by Tomson Highway; Julie Flett (Illustrator)
Call Number: PS8565 .I39 D72 2018 (Education, Floor 1)
ISBN: 9781897252642
Publication Date: 2019-01-30
Fox on the Ice = mahkesis miskwamihk e-cipatapit by Tomson Highway; Brian Deines (Illustrator)
Call Number: PS8565 .I39 F69 2003 (Education, Floor 1; Special Collections)
ISBN: 0002255324
The Little Duck = sikihpsis by Beth Cuthand; Stan Cuthand (Translator); Mary Longman (Illustrator)
Call Number: PS8555 .U835 L57 1999 (Education, Floor 1)
ISBN: 0919441742
Publication Date: 1999-07-01
Mwákwa Talks to the Loon by Dale Auger (Author/Illustrator)
Call Number: PS 8601 .U37 M93 2007 (Education, Floor 1)
ISBN: 9781894974325
Publication Date: 2007-07-23
Nipêhon / I Wait by Caitlin Nicholson; Leona Morin-Neilson (Translator)
Call Number: PS 8627 .I22 N56 2017 (Education, Floor 1)
ISBN: 9781554989140
Publication Date: 2017-09-05
Niwechihaw / I Help by Caitlin Dale Nicholson; Leona Morin-Neilson (Translator)
Call Number: PS 8627.I22 N58 2007 (Education, Floor 1)
ISBN: 9780888998125
Publication Date: 2008-02-28
Wisahkecahk Flies to the Moon by Freda Ahenakew; Sherry Farrell Racette (Illustrator)
Call Number: E99.C88 .A36 1999 (Education, Floor 1)
ISBN: 9780921827573

The Education Library has titles from Eaglecrest Books, an organization that specializes in early literacy materials featuring First Nations children and families, in English, French, and Cree (Plains). Browse all Cree-language Eaglecrest Books in the Queen's collection by clicking here.