Wacheeyea and welcome to Apisheesh: A Cree Learning Podcast! Listen, follow, and read about my journey to learn Cree (n-dialect)

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Angela Shisheesh

Angela is an elder originally from Attawapiskat First Nation and has been involved with the Cree language for the past 40-plus years in translating, interpreting, or teaching. Angela is a survivor of St. Anne’s Indian Residential School in Fort Albany, where she endured physical and sexual abuse. I…

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Jocelyn Cheechoo

Jocelyn is from Moose Cree First Nation and has been learning the Cree language for the past 40-plus years by being around speakers when she lived in Moose Factory and most recently by taking a Cree class in Thunder Bay. Jocelyn grew up in Moose Factory where she attended Ministik school and learne…

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Robert Nakogee

Robert (aka Bobby) is chief of Fort Albany First Nation. He was raised in his home community by his great-aunt and uncle Margaret and Joseph (Jojeep) Wheesk and completed his last two years of elementary school in Moosonee, Ont. He completed high school in Timmins, Ont., and returned to his communi…

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