Takwakin words with Dorothy Thunder

Coffee and Cree by Rellik

Episode notes

Dorothy Thunder joins us for our inaugural episode of Coffee and Cree. Dorothy Thunder is a Plains Cree (nêhiyawiskwêw) from Little Pine First Nation, Saskatchewan and full-time Cree instructor in Faculty of Native Studies at the University of Alberta.

She is a Language Keeper, educator, and an Aboriginal woman who practices the traditional way of life.

In this episode Dorothy teaches us words related to the fall season and also touches on animacy, diminutives, personal pronouns, VAI verbs and conversational departing phrases.

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