Calling all Cree in Winnipeg

My oh my, it has been ages since I posted to this site.

It has been roughly just as long since I have actively engaged anyone else in Cree.

The main reason for this: my relocation, back to Winnipeg, Manitoba, a good 15 hours' drive away.

Oddly enough, there are probably, numerically speaking, far more Cree speakers in this city of roughly 700,000 people than there are back in St. Paul where I was taking my courses. But the fact is, the vast majority of them remain a mystery to me because the lingua franca of this burg is predominantly English. What courses do exist here are more or less piecemeal, the very reason I had to leave Winnipeg to find a decent Cree program in the first place.

But now that I have a partial base in the language, there are things I can do myself. Number one: start my own Cree speakers' group here in Winnipeg. That is, help set up a regular circle of new, intermediate and advanced speakers who seek a supportive environment to develop in Cree.

If that sounds like you, or someone you know, drop me a comment here and I'll be in touch soon!

ay-ay,
Rick