Dene/Cree ElderSpeak

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This digital collection was produced with funding from the Aboriginal Digital Collections program, Industry Canada and the

This web site is a collection of 16 stories from the Dene (Dene Suline) & Cree (Nêhiyawak) communities in Northwest Saskatchewan. Joseph Naytowhow (Sturgeon Lake, SK), a Cree speaker, has been gathering these stories from Dene and Cree Elders since October of 1995. Some Saskatchewan Elders say each of the 15 poles of the tipi represent a moral value. Represented in this collection of stories are related values borrowed from this model - reflective of both Cree and Dene worldviews. These stories are told in Dene and Cree. We have provided English translations for each. Welcome.