Hardback
978-0-88864-309-4Size: 8" x 10¼"
Pages: 604
Paperback
978-0-88864-284-4Size: 8" x 10"
Pages: 604
Alberta Elders' Cree Dictionary/alperta ohci kehtehayak nehiyaw otwestamâkewasinahikan
By Nancy LeClaire and George Cardinal
Edited by Earle H. Waugh
Cree is the most widespread native language in Canada. The Alberta Elders' Cree Dictionary/alperta ohci kehtehayak nehiyaw otwestamâkewasinahikan is a highly usable and effective dictionary that serves students, business, governments, and media. This remarkable dictionary includes extensive Cree-English and English-Cree sections based upon both Northern Cree (the "TH" dialect) and Plains Cree (the "Y" dialect). It also includes: parts of speech, a "New Terms" supplement to the English-Cree section, appendices on kinship terms, months and numbers, and terms commonly used in government, courts and other institutions. Work on the dictionary began in the mid 1970s through the initiative of Nancy LeClaire, a Cree nun from Maskwacis (then Hobbema). The dictionary has had many other generous and dedicated contributors from among Alberta's Cree speakers. The dictionary is designed for speakers, students, and teachers of Cree. [See online dictionary at http://www.creedictionary.com or download the app from iTunes.]
Book details
Publication date: March 2002Features: Appendices, new terms, bibliography
Keywords: Language;Cree
Subject(s): FOREIGN LANGUAGE STUDY / Native American Languages, Literary Studies, Literary Studies / Language Studies, Indigenous Studies, Indigenous Studies / Indigenous Languages, Language / Cree, FOREIGN LANGUAGE STUDY / General, Language teaching & learning, Language;Cree, Language Studies, Cree Language Studies, Reference
Publisher(s): The University of Alberta Press, Duval House Publishing
Book details
Publication date: March 2002Features: Appendices, new terms, bibliography
Keywords: Language;Cree
Subject(s): FOREIGN LANGUAGE STUDY / Native American Languages, Literary Studies, Literary Studies / Language Studies, Indigenous Studies, Indigenous Studies / Indigenous Languages, Language / Cree, FOREIGN LANGUAGE STUDY / General, Language teaching & learning, Language;Cree, Language Studies, Cree Language Studies, Reference
Publisher(s): The University of Alberta Press, Duval House Publishing
Nancy LeClaire.
George Cardinal.
Earle H. Waugh. Earle H. Waugh is Professor Emeritus and Director of the Centre for the Centre for health and Culture in the Department of Family Medicine, Faculty of Medicine at the University of Alberta in Edmonton.
Thelma J. Chalifoux.
"Demonstrates the amazing achievement of Alberta's Cree people in the last hundred plus years."
"In illuminating the wealth of the Cree language, the dictionary more than meets its goal." Karen Rice, Letters in Canada
"[A]landmark work of native scholarship." Suzanne Methot, Quill & Quire
"[S]erves as a cultural focal point for an entire nationality." - Bruce Butcher, Athabasca Advocate
"[T]he publication of this dictionary has made a major cultural contribution to the Cree Community, to preserving and rejuvenating the Cree language." - Lucianna Ciccocioppo, Folio
"Our South Slave communities (Northern, sakāw nēhiyawēwin, ‘U’-dialect) are amazed with these Elders’ dictionaries... We are sharing them among our Cree classes and using them across our curricula, and our teachers really appreciate having the Cree—English, English—Cree, and new technical words. mistahi kīnanāskomawāw." Kyle Napier, Cree Language Manager | Communications & Research Manager
Alberta Book Awards - Alberta Scholarly Title of the Year
1999
Board of Governors, University of Alberta - Award of Distinction
1999
Association for Canadian Studies - Award of Merit
1999
Nancy LeClaire.
George Cardinal.
Earle H. Waugh. Earle H. Waugh is Professor Emeritus and Director of the Centre for the Centre for health and Culture in the Department of Family Medicine, Faculty of Medicine at the University of Alberta in Edmonton.
Thelma J. Chalifoux.
"Demonstrates the amazing achievement of Alberta's Cree people in the last hundred plus years."
"In illuminating the wealth of the Cree language, the dictionary more than meets its goal." Karen Rice, Letters in Canada
"[A]landmark work of native scholarship." Suzanne Methot, Quill & Quire
"[S]erves as a cultural focal point for an entire nationality." - Bruce Butcher, Athabasca Advocate
"[T]he publication of this dictionary has made a major cultural contribution to the Cree Community, to preserving and rejuvenating the Cree language." - Lucianna Ciccocioppo, Folio
"Our South Slave communities (Northern, sakāw nēhiyawēwin, ‘U’-dialect) are amazed with these Elders’ dictionaries... We are sharing them among our Cree classes and using them across our curricula, and our teachers really appreciate having the Cree—English, English—Cree, and new technical words. mistahi kīnanāskomawāw." Kyle Napier, Cree Language Manager | Communications & Research Manager
Alberta Book Awards - Alberta Scholarly Title of the Year
1999
Board of Governors, University of Alberta - Award of Distinction
1999
Association for Canadian Studies - Award of Merit
1999
