nehiyawewin: paskwawi-pikiskwewin / Cree Language of the Plains Language Lab Workbook

Originally from White Bear First Nation, Jean L. Okimasis is a retired Cree Language educator, who taught for many years with the Saskatchewan Indian Federated College (now First Nations University of Canada). Jean lives in Regina, SK.

Publisher's Note to the 2022 Print Edition Foreword Introduction Cree 100 Lab Session 1: Sounds and Pronunciation, Minimal Pairs, and Possession Lab Session 2: Nouns, Imperatives, Numbers, and Greetings Dialogue 2.1: Greetings Lab Session 3: Greetings, Nouns (Singular, Plural, and Diminutives), and Numbers Dialogue 3.1: Greetings-Introducing Someone Lab Session 4: Negative Imperatives, Diminutives, Verbs, Locatives, and Prepositions Lab Session 5: Greetings, Interrogatives, and Demonstrative Pronouns Dialogue 5.1: Studying Cree Lab Session 6: Imperatives and Independent Mode, Affirmative and Negative Statements, Polarity Questions, and Locatives Dialogue 6.1: Lunch Time Lab Session 7: Preverbs and Inanimate Intransitive Verbs - Weather, Days of the Week, and Seasons Lab Session 8: Animate Intransitive Verbs and Pronouns, Months, and Dates Lab Session 9: Animate Intransitive Verbs (continued), Independent and Conjunct Modes Lab Session 10: Third Person, Future Conditional, and Vital Statistics Lab Session 11: Review of the Audio Labs in Cree 100 Cree 101 Lab Session 12: Animate Intransitive Verbs (vai) and Calendar Dates Dialogue 12.1: Travel Lab Session 13: vai and vii in Independent and Conjunct Modes and Future Conditional Form, Weather Terms Lab Session 14: Transitive Animate Verbs (vta) - Singular and Plural Objects Dialogue 14.1: Visiting Friends Lab Session 15: Possessive Form for Singular Animate Nouns, Kinship Terms, and Interrogative Pronouns Lab Session 16: Transitive Inanimate Verbs Lab Session 17: Conjunct Mode Dialogue 17.1: Conversation with Family Lab Session 18: Inverse Form and vta with Plural Objects Lab Session 19: Time Dialogue 19.1: Talking about Time Lab Session 20: Reflexive Forms Answer Key About the Author