Members of #Piapot#FirstNation, students from the #UniversityOfWinnipeg & various other professionals are learning new techniques that will hopefully be used for ground searches of potential #UnmarkedGraves sites in the future.
A new company “Kā-natonahkik-tāpwēwin,” which in the #Cree language translates to “In search of the truth,” is leading the training. The company known as KNT IRS Consulting for short, is an #Indigenous owned, on-reserve company.
In statement of claim filed before #ManitobaCourt of King's Bench on Tues, #Peguis — largest #FirstNation in Manitoba, seeks compensation for financial losses & other damages that occurred during a series of #floods along the Fisher River.
Fawn Wood’s “Kikāwiynaw” is my favorite record at the moment. Her voice is quite captivating. And she really knows how to write a love song. Not sappy or romantic, just simple enduring love.
This record’s title is a Plains Cree word that translates to “our mother.” Therein she honors the female spirit.
My favorite track is “For Dallas,” but they’re all hauntingly beautiful.
Research proposal written entirely in #Cree#language receives federal funding
A Faculty of #SocialWork research funding proposal written entirely in nêhiyawewin, the Cree language, has been approved for funding by the #SocialSciences and #Humanities Research Council (SSHRC) to demonstrate their commitment to supporting #Indigenous languages in government-funded opportunities. This is the first proposal submitted exclusively in an Indigenous language to be funded by a federal funding agency. #science#Canada#IndigenousPeoples
The boy with medicine in his voice featured in new film
Noah Green stunned the audience when he sang at a climate change event where activist Greta Thunberg appeared in Edmonton in 2019.
The boy, now 13, soon came to the attention of filmmaker Jules Arita Koostachin who heard the medicine in his voice and documented his relationship with his grandmother and the teachings she is passing to him.
Considered to be the Godfather of PowWowStep, DJ Shub has pioneered a growing genre of electronic music. Born Dan General, he is a Mohawk, turtle clan of the Six Nations of the Grand River located in Ontario, Canada....
Edward Lerat, a vice-chief of the Federation of #Saskatchewan#IndianNations , said in March that #FirstNation leaders had been galvanized to improve on-reserve security after a September 2022 mass stabbing on the territory of the James Smith #Cree Nation. Not only had perpetrator #MylesSanderson been #paroled despite a #HighRisk to #reoffend against the community, but #RCMP were chronically delayed in responding to the #tragedy
"#Cree Journalist Brandi Morin said, 'We are taking back the narrative and this story about North America’s largest lithium mine being constructed while violating sacred Indigenous territories is told from the Native perspective. The 'green' energy revolution isn’t what you think it is!'
IndigiNews Media and The Real News, September 12, 2023
Go watch! @IndigiNewsMedia@TheRealNews@ricochet_en
"Follow Native journalist Brandi Morin, who came from Canada, and covered this powerful story.
"In Nevada’s remote Thacker Pass, a fight for our future is playing out between local #Indigenous tribes and powerful state and #corporate entities hellbent on mining the lithium beneath their land. Vancouver-based Lithium Americas is developing a massive lithium mine at Thacker Pass, but for more than two years several local tribes and #environmental organizations have tried to block or delay the mine in the courts and through direct action.
"The Thacker Pass Project is backed by the Biden administration, and companies like General Motors have invested hundreds of millions of dollars in the project, looking to capitalize on the transition to a 'green energy economy,' for which lithium is essential. While it is a vital component in the manufacturing of electric vehicles and batteries, though, there’s nothing “green” about mining lithium. Ending our addiction to fossil fuels is urgently necessary, but the struggle of the local tribes around Thacker Pass reveals the dark side of a 'green revolution' that prioritizes profit and consumption over everything (and everyone) else."
“We are sick and tired of bringing our people home in a box, and that’s what is happening here,” #Pimicikamak#Cree Nation (PCN) Chief David Monias said during a media conference held this week. “Many unnecessary #deaths have happened and will continue to happen, because the #health system in First Nations is broken.
The #wildfires in #Quebec have caused around 200 people who are medically vulnerable in the #Cree community of #Wemindji to be flown out as communities in the north of the province continue to fight through the unprecedented burning season and hope and pray for #rain.
The #fire in the Wemindji/Radisson sector is one of nine burning in Quebec and is one of the two that are out of control, according to Quebec' forest fire prevention agency ( #SOPFEU ).
Are there any members of the #Cree nation on the Fedi?
is this how the flag of the Cree peoples of Canada is supposed to look? I can't find any examples of the illustration of the person in the center from before Wikimedia had an SVG uploaded. Every example I find seems to point back to this exact image. 🤔
In June, #FortAlbany#FirstNation was #evacuated due to #wildfires .
The #Cree community is near the #JamesBay coast and surrounded by the #boreal forest and peatlands.
Community members shared photos and videos on social media of massive smoke plumes above the forest's edge, with the low-lying #peatlands nearby.
Only after the last tree has been cut down.
Only after the last river has been poisoned.
Only after the last fish has been caught, only then will you find that money cannot be eaten.
This talk by Jon Corbett on translating indigenous knowledge into computing ideas, including programming in Cree using syllabics and prototyping keyboard hardware that maps to cultural knowledge
Warpath - Indian Summer - Drezus - 2014 (www.youtube.com)
First, you should know that I have risen through the fire in colorful buckskin...
Indomitable - DJ Shub - ft. Northern Cree Singers - 2017 (www.youtube.com)
Considered to be the Godfather of PowWowStep, DJ Shub has pioneered a growing genre of electronic music. Born Dan General, he is a Mohawk, turtle clan of the Six Nations of the Grand River located in Ontario, Canada....