Sentence examples for cree language from inspiring English sources

The 1975 agreement gave the Crees control over the local school board, which has mandated school instruction through the third grade strictly in the Cree language.

During the evening I spent there, the dancers, most clad in startlingly colorful costumes and many wearing bells around their ankles, ranged from preschoolers to tribal elders, and they were accompanied by several men seated around a single drum, furiously beating out a rhythm and singing, in the Cree language, a mesmerizing, warble-like call to the dance.

The province of Saskatchewan derives its name from the Saskatchewan River, which in the Cree language is called "Kisiskatchewani Sipi", meaning "swift-flowing river".

At a National Hockey League NHLL) game in Calgary in February 2007, young Cree singer Akina Shirt became the first person ever to perform "O Canada" in the Cree language at such an event.

The language barriers that separate the characters are made visual by Brown's having Riel drop the letter "h" in his dialogue (e.g. "over t'e last several days ... ......), and by his putting "translated" French-language dialogue in ⟨chevron brackets⟩, and Cree language dialogue in ⟨⟨double-chevrons⟩⟩.

All program development considers cultural appropriateness; in addition, nine staff members are fluent in the Cree language.

A genetic single nucleotide polymorphism (hepatocyte nuclear factor [HNF]-1α G319S), which is present in one of the aboriginal Oji-Cree language groups in Manitoba, has been shown to increase the risk of T2DM and may contribute to the high disease prevalence (16).

The Métis of the Canadian Plains spoke Michif, a trade dialect that combined Plains Cree, an Algonquian language, and French.

One of those children was Sue Caribou, who in 1972 was separated from her family at the age of seven, and taken to a Catholic school where for the next five years she was physically and sexually abused by missionaries who forbade her from speaking Cree, her native language.

There are Cree and Ojibway language classes, and sweat lodges every Wednesday.

Other examples of mixed languages include Gurindji Kriol, a blend of Kriol and traditional Gurindji, which is spoken by communities in Australia's Northern Territory; and Michif, which is spoken by communities along the U.S.-Canada border, and combines verbal structures from Cree, an Algonquin language, and noun structures from Métis French, a type of Canadian French dialect.