nitâ natohtawin, a song for my daughter

nitâ natohtawin

mâna nikî-sâkihâw

kôhtâwiy, mâka

êkâ ê-kî-sâkihêwêyân.

nitâ kiwâpamâw

kikâwiy ana iskwêw

kimôhcikihâw

kisâkihâw, kisâkihitin.

pipohki kika-kawacîn

piko tihkisa kitêh

tânitahto-pipon

nitêh asinîwiw.

sâkihiso, nitâ, sâkihiso.

 

About âpihtawikosisân

Métis from Lac Ste. Anne, Alberta. Currently living in Montreal, Quebec. Passions: education, Aboriginal law, the Cree language, and roller derby. Education: BEd, LLB, working on a BCL
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1 Response to nitâ natohtawin, a song for my daughter

  1. Emo says:

    Of interest to you, I presume, is this article from a Law journal, with the fetching title,
    If Quebec Secedes from Canada Can the Cree Secede from Quebec?
    Douglas Sanders, 1995, U. Brit. Colum. L. Rev. 143 (1995)
    http://heinonline.org/HOL/LandingPage?collection=journals&handle=hein.journals/ubclr29&div=14&id=&page=
    Perhaps someone should write a follow-up article (more salient to the milieu of 2011), entitled, If Quebec doesn’t secede from Canada, could the Cree still secede from Quebec?
    BTW, by sheer luck I got a copy of Richard F. Salisbury’s study, A Homeland for the Cree, contrasting conditions in 1971 to 1981… that, too, could use a sequel.

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