New Oji-Cree phrasebook launching in Thunder Bay-with 7 min recording

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New Oji-Cree phrasebook launching in Thunder Bay-with 7 min recording

By Kevin Jesmer on Monday, January 18th, 2016 | No Comments

New Oji-Cree phrasebook launching in Thunder Bay ‘Once you start learning your language it changes everything,’ says translator Jerry Sawanas CBC News Posted: Dec 18, 2015 Link to original article and 7 min recording First Nations people hoping to hold onto the traditional language of Oji-Cree will have a new tool to help […]

A NW Ontario First Nation Community Feast.

By Kevin Jesmer on Friday, December 25th, 2015 | No Comments

A NW Ontario First Nation Community Feast. I am always fascinated with a culture’s food. I found some pictures of a community feast in NW Ontario. It is looks delicious, exciting and fun to prepare and eat. Getting ready to butcher a moose and other meats for a powwow (30 sec, 2009) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5CsdMqG1HVY #1 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NYS235EaLAI […]

Fast Food- NW Ontario First Nation Style. Food on the lake shore.

By Kevin Jesmer on Friday, December 25th, 2015 | No Comments

Fast Food- NW Ontario, First Nation Style. Food on the lake shore. I discovered some pictures of food being prepared on a lake shore by a First Nation person as he was on a fishing trip. It is healthy and exciting fast food. What an adventure to cook it and eat it!!! Hot dog and […]

Laughter in Native Culture. 12-15-15

By Kevin Jesmer on Thursday, December 24th, 2015 | No Comments

Laughter in Native Culture. Link to original article “Indians like to laugh,” emcee Ed Azure would later say. “If you hang out with Indian people long enough, it doesn’t matter where they are, what the occasion is, you’re going to hear laughter. In laughter, we understand, it is the music of our Creator. It […]

Honoring Those Who Died… in Cree Culture (12-15-15)

By Kevin Jesmer on Thursday, December 24th, 2015 | No Comments

Honoring Those Who Died … in Cree Culture. Concerning Honoring Loved Ones Who died. (Thompson Manitoba. Swampy Cree) Link to original article With ever-certain hope, Azure introduced the feast with a testament to our loved ones’ final resting place: “As Indian people, we never knew of this place called hell. For us, there were […]

Weather and market a tough combination for trappers at fur tables. 12-22-15

By Kevin Jesmer on Thursday, December 24th, 2015 | No Comments

Weather and market a tough combination for trappers at fur tables IAN GRAHAM / THOMPSON CITIZEN DECEMBER 22, 2015 01:56 PM Link to original article David Bewick of North American Fur Auctions, right, inspects furs during the Thompson fur tables Dec. 18. Photograph By Ian Graham With warm weather persisting into December through much of Manitoba, […]

Fur table sales less than half of 2013 total. Written in 2014

By Kevin Jesmer on Thursday, December 24th, 2015 | No Comments

Fur table sales less than half of 2013 total MOLLY GIBSON KIRBY / THOMPSON CITIZEN DECEMBER 30, 2014 09:41 AM Link to original article One trapper demonstrates how to properly skin a coyote paw during the 2014 Thompson fur tables. Photograph By Molly Gibson Kirby The 2014 Thompson fur tables have come and gone, and the […]

Mission to Aboriginal Communities in NW Ontario Canada.

By Kevin Jesmer on Monday, October 15th, 2012 | No Comments

Mission to Aboriginal Communities in Ontario Canada. Video of a folk song about the greatness of Canada Video containing names of tribes and individuals The Kishwaukee Bible Church (near Chicago) is praying to be able to minister the gospel among the Cree, Ojibwa, Oji-Cree, Metis people in NW Ontario Canada. There is one young […]

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