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Showing 1 to 20 of 109 for “"Cree"”.
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Cultural Persistence and Plains Cree Identity
… life of the Sweet Grass community of Plains Cree. While the aboriginal Plains Cree culture has undergone sweeping adaptive change, since founding of the Reserve in 1879, much of the preReserve culture remains to give the community an emphatically Plains Cree identity. The particulars of …
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Land and Colonization: A Nehinuw (Cree) Perspective
… special attention is given to the Spruce Island Cree of Cumberland House in northeastern Saskatchewan. The use of the Nehinuw (Cree) language and cultural historical knowledge provides new factual information, and new conceptual understandings on the issue of land and adjoining matters that …
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James Bay Cree perspectives on child language development
… priorities for child language development in two Cree communities in the James Bay Cree Region of northern Quebec, Canada. Using thematic analysis, themes are derived from semistructured interviews with 24 individuals on topics of child language development, language stimulation, and service …
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Indigenous Leadership: A Talking-Circle Dialogue with Cree Leaders
… Nations population in Canada: nehiyawak or the Cree people. As the research evolved, the study also ended up exploring both cultural differences with respect to knowledge and knowing and the ethical issues involved with permitting non-native researchers to study native groups. The latter issue …
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Global and transnational flows and local Cree youth culture
… in which young people in an eastern James Bay Cree community are interpreting and using extralocal flows of cultural symbols, ideas and meanings from a number of sources and creolizing them within their local context. Two sources of cultural flows are focussed on: the mass media and Pan-Indian …
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The syntax and semantics of clause-typing in Plains Cree
… comes from the clause-typing system of Plains Cree, an Algonquian language spoken on the Canadian plains, which morpho-syntactically distinguishes between two types of clauses traditionally called INDEPENDENT and CONJUNCT orders. In the current analysis, the INDEPENDENT order instantiates …
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Community perceptions of a Cree immersion program at Cumberland House
… education that contributes to their children's Cree and Anglo-Canadian bicultural competence. They expected the Cree immersion program in the provincial school would develop their children's Cree and English bilingual fluency. They needed training, administrative support, materials and ongoing …
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Ethnogenesis of Metis, Cree and Chippewa in Twentieth Century Montana
… thesis examines the history of Montana’s Metis, Cree and Chippewa people as “landless Indians” in a twentieth century context. Landlessness among the Metis, Cree and Chippewa became a defining aspect of their identity by the twentieth century that distinguished them from both Indian and white …
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Ethnogenesis of Metis, Cree and Chippewa in Twentieth Century Montana
… thesis examines the history of Montana’s Metis, Cree and Chippewa people as “landless Indians” in a twentieth century context. Landlessness among the Metis, Cree and Chippewa became a defining aspect of their identity by the twentieth century that distinguished them from both Indian and white …
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Kwayeskastasowin ᒃᐗᔦᔅᑲᔅᑕᓱᐎᓐ (Setting Things Right): Cree Pathways to Modernizing Treaty 9
Treaty 9 stands at a decisive crossroads where intensifying extraction pressures, notably Ontario’s Ring of Fire, collide with unresolved Indigenous sovereignty and governance. While signatories understood the treaty as a covenant of coexistence and shared stewardship, Canada imposed a …
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Teachings from Cree Elders: A Grounded Theory Study of Indigenous Leadership
… What are the core values and beliefs of the Cree people? And, how can these beliefs be used to reshape the Cree self-governance systems? To address these questions multiple, in-depth, and focus group interviews were held with seven First Nations members, all of whom speak Cree and are leaders …
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kâ-yôskâtahk ôma nêhiyawêwin : the representation of intentionality in Plains Cree
… thesis considers the reference system of Plains Cree, an Algonquian language spoken in Canada. I argue that the referential system of this language can be understood as coding distinctions in extentionality; it distinguishes between referents that possess perspectives (‘intentional’) and …
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Islands of culture : the experiences of post-secondary Cree language teachers
This study recognizes that post-secondary Cree language teachers carry expertise in providing relevant teaching strategies for adult learners. Pursuant to this perspective, this study describes current Cree language teaching approaches for adult learners as practiced by selected post-secondary Cree …
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The 18th century western Cree and their neighbours : identity and territory
… by David Mandelbaum and others, that the Cree and Assiniboin invaded the west after 1690 as a result of the introduction of the fur trade. This view, seemingly supported by nineteenth century authorities, has its only source in several brief ambiguous statements published in 1801 by …
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Relational Verbs: Paradigm and Practice in a Manitoba dialect of Swampy Cree
This thesis studies the verbal inflection in Cree called the relational form, with a focus on Western Cree dialects, primarily Swampy Cree as spoken in Kinosao Sipi (Norway House), Manitoba. I will overview previous literature on the topic, from early grammarians Horden (1881), Howse (1844) and …
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Partnership in education : an academic support program for Cree students in CEGEP
… functioning of an academic support program for Cree students in a non-Native CEGEP. The purpose of this modelling is to detect any mismatches between the actual structure and an optimally functioning program that learns and adapts and benefits those for whom it exists. The premise of the study …
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Cree (Nêhiyawak) Mobility, Diplomacy, and Resistance in the Canada-US Borderlands, 1885 - 1917
… thesis examines the borderlands history of the Cree (nêhiyawak; primarily under Chief Little Bear) from 1885 to 1917. It combines archival research, digital mapping (GIS), ethnohistory, and data analysis to track Indigenous movements and to analyze how the Cree navigated their status as …
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