#Cree

[neechees]

For Native American Heritage Month, I thought I'd upload the only decent part of the abomination that is The New World film, which features a brief scene in which Cree actor Billy Merasty speaks Cree (here used as a substitution for the Powhatan/Pamunkey language, which has similarities to Cree), but this scene was never given any subtitles for what the actor was saying. Below is a transcription of what the actors are saying in Cree and English.

Billy Merasty: kîkwây ôma (what's this?) John Smith: The source of all evil. It excuses vulgarity, makes wrong right, debased noble. Merasty: ci metoni tipahikêwin ôma ("true payment for this?") "kitâpacihtân tâpiskôc (you use it just like they (the colonizers) see the day), kîsikâw isinâkwak (others see the day as thus). kiyomâ napew (continually a man.)" "tâpiskôc mîcitâw kîsikâw (just like you excrete on the day.), mâci-atâwâkêw ôta miyo-askiy (he starts to sell all this good land here)," ê-nakatamân namôy askiy (I'll never leave this land ), mamisîtotam! (he depends on it), ê-macihtwât (he is mean?), pisiskiwa paskiyawew. (he overpowers the animals over there)" "nisâkihtân ôma askiy (I love this land), tâpiskôc ê-sâkihakik nôhtâwiypân ekwa nikâwiypân (just as equally as I love my father and mother.). namôy ê-nakatamân ôma askiy (I'll never leave this land). (this last part I can't hear)

Note that Merasty is speaking a different dialect than me (and here I have transcribed the Y dialect equivalents of what I THINK I've heard) and is speaking quickly, and so there are some things I might've gotten wrong or misheard.

[weenukfok]

[kroovv]

I drew Cree a while back and still really like how she came out✨

[granadaholmesdaily]

HAPPY BIRTHDAY SHERLOCK HOLMES —6th January 1854—

[native-indigenous-characters]

Today’s Native/Indigenous Character in Media is Ms. Hunter from Wendell & Wild!

Ms. Hunter is voiced by Tantoo Cardinal who is Cree and Métis!

[kiwewinbeads]

Look what I just finished!!

Magpie feet earrings with peyote stitched beadwork, stainless steel findings and moose hide

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[hillypete]

anyone have Ontario or Northern Ontario to trade? Dm me

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[formlines]

Killer Whale

Jay Brabant

[doubledaybooks]

“The worst part about missing someone is when you forget for a second that they're gone. When you remember, the pain hits you harder than before. Forgetting can feel like a gift, but a lot of the time it's just hurt lying in wait.” -Jessica Johns, BAD CREE

Break our hearts, Jessica Johns, why don't you.

[sweetd3lights]

[nikkiitalks]

2023 National Gathering of The Elders in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada.

[neechees]

Cree phrase for you today:

Kahkiyaw mihkwasâkayak kohkôsiwiwak

"All cops are pigs"

[weenukfok]

[allthecanadianpolitics]

Protesters occupying a camp established by a First Nation in northern Alberta to defy drilling operations on its traditional lands have been ordered to vacate.  The camp — a tipi and tents flanked by rows of trucks lining the road 75 kilometres east of Peace River, Alta. — is Woodland Cree First Nation's latest effort to oppose Obsidian Energy's expansion plans. The camp is the latest development in an increasingly tense conflict between Woodland Cree and Obsidian after the operator was blamed for a string of earthquakes in the region. The First Nation says it is owed meaningful consultation and final authority over what industrial development occurs on its traditional lands. Company officials say it has consulted with the WCFN and the Indigenous community has no such veto rights. 

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Tagging: @newsfromstolenland

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[kiwewinbeads]

Just finished something really special, been a while since I've made one of these!

Bone and horn hairpipe, brass beads, replica trade beads, crow beads, India agate and moose hide

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