Details

Subject(s)

• Cree language—Vocabulary [Browse]
• Indigenous Studies [Browse]

Author

Wolvengrey, Arok [Browse]

Library of Congress genre(s)

• Dictionaries [Browse]

Summary note

"As an Elder once said, "Learn one Cree word a day for 100 days, and emerge a different person." In 100 Days of Cree Neal McLeod offers a portal into another way of understanding the universe--and our place within it--while demonstrating why this funny, vibrant, and sometimes salacious language is "the sexiest" of them all (according to Tomson Highway). Based on a series of Facebook posts, the 100 short chapters or "days" in the book present chains of related words, some dealing with the traditional--the buffalo hunt, the seasons--and others cheekily capturing the detritus of modern life--from internet slang to Johnny Cash songs to Viagra."-- Provided by publisher.

Source of description

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (EBC, viewed January 27, 2018).

Language note

Text in English; some text in Cree.

Contents

• Frontmatter
• CONTENTS
• Acknowledgements
• Introduction
• DAY 1 Working Together
• DAY 2 Sky
• DAY 3 Water
• DAY 4 Honour
• DAY 5 Sound
• DAY 6 Place Names (Part 1)
• DAY 7 Clothing
• DAY 8 Treaty
• DAY 9 Facebook/Internet Slang
• DAY 10 Horses (Part 1)
• DAY 11 Different Peoples
• DAY 12 The Character and Knowledge of the Crees
• DAY 13 Kinship
• DAY 14 Dances
• DAY 15 Medicine
• DAY 16 Place Names (Part 2)
• DAY 17 Warfare
• DAY 18 Rivers
• DAY 19 Star Wars
• DAY 20 Kentucky Fried Chicken
• DAY 21 Food
• DAY 22 Buildings
• DAY 23 Weather
• DAY 24 Directions
• DAY 25 Imitations or Fakes
• DAY 26 Funny Cree Expressions (Part 1)
• DAY 27 Spring
• DAY 28 How Sweetgrass Became Chief (Part 1)
• DAY 29 Funny Cree Expressions (Part 2)
• DAY 30 How Sweetgrass Became Chief (Part 2)
• DAY 31 Tim Hortons
• DAY 32 Stories
• DAY 33 The Goose
• DAY 34 Birds
• DAY 35 Education
• DAY 36 How Sweetgrass Became Chief (Part 3)
• DAY 37 Cree Narrative Memory
• DAY 38 How Sweetgrass Became Chief (Part 4)
• DAY 39 Mechanical Things
• DAY 40 Treaty Four Leaders
• DAY 41 Horses (Part 2)
• DAY 42 Powwow (Part 1)
• DAY 43 How Sweetgrass Became Chief (Part 5)
• DAY 44 Powwow (Part 2)
• DAY 45 Sweetgrass as a Young Man (Part 1)
• DAY 46 Household Items
• DAY 47 Songs to Kill a Wihtikow
• DAY 48 Flowers
• DAY 49 Interacting with Our Children (Part 1)
• DAY 50 Sewing/Hides
• DAY 51 Interacting with Our Children (Part 2)
• DAY 52 Dogs
• DAY 53 Horses (Part 3)
• DAY 54 Furniture
• DAY 55 Colours
• DAY 56 Forests
• DAY 57 Art Terms (Part 1)
• DAY 58 Art Terms (Part 2)
• DAY 59 Feelings
• DAY 60 Poker (Part 1)
• DAY 61 Hunting
• DAY 62 Academic Terms
• DAY 63 Four Crees Resist the Blackfoot
• DAY 64 Poker (Part 2)
• DAY 65 CreeEnglish Slang
• DAY 66 Johnny Cash Songs
• DAY 67 Rodeo
• DAY 68 Fingers and Hands
• DAY 69 Transportation
• DAY 70 Illnesses
• DAY 71 Being Cree
• DAY 72 Social Control (Part 1)
• DAY 73 Social Control (Part 2)
• DAY 74 Seeing and Sight
• DAY 75 Increase, Move Forward, Expand
• DAY 76 Leonard Cohen Songs
• DAY 77 Office
• DAY 78 Interacting with Our Children (Part 3)
• DAY 79 Fall
• DAY 80 Buffalo
• DAY 81 Preverbs
• DAY 82 Practical Verbs
• DAY 83 Literary Theory
• DAY 84 Bannock
• DAY 85 Running
• DAY 86 Postage
• DAY 87 Guns
• DAY 88 Interacting with Your Dog
• DAY 89 Sweetgrass as a Young Man (Part 2)
• DAY 90 Computer Terminology
• DAY 91 Traditional Games
• DAY 92 Winter Sports
• DAY 93 Sweetgrass as a Young Man (Part 3)
• DAY 94 Sweetgrass as a Young Man (Part 4)
• DAY 95 Halloween
• DAY 96 Interacting with Our Children (Part 4): Bedtime
• DAY 97 Bedtime for the Bingo Caller
• DAY 98 Giving Strength
• DAY 99 Contemporary Warfare
• DAY 100 Until Next Time
• Guide to Cree Pronunciation
• ABOUT THE AUTHOR

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ISBN

• 9780889774308
• 0889774307

OCLC

943564208

Doi

10.1515/9780889774308

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