Why I started learning Cree (Nêhiyawêwin)

01 April 2014 [link youtube]


I look really exhausted in this video, but, hey, this isn't a beauty contest.



These comments come closer to autobiography than my other videos: I reflect on my own motivations to learn Cree (Nêhiyawêwin) and the type of ethical engagement that unites my interest in First Nations with the (unrelated) languages, histories and politics I've studied on in Asia.


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