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100 Days of Cree
Neal McLeod
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Description for 100 Days of Cree
Paperback. In this appealing, episodic volume, poet and painter Neal McLeod shows us how the funny, vibrant, and sometimes salacious language of Cree gives us the chance to see the world in a different way. Num Pages: 325 pages. BIC Classification: 2JNC; CJB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 177 x 139. .
As an Elder once said, "Learn one Cree word a day for 100 days, and emerge a different person." In 100 Days of Cree , Neal McLeod offers us a portal into another way of understanding the universe--and our place within it--while demonstrating why this funny, vibrant, and sometimes salacious language is "the sexiest of them all" (according to Tomson Highway). Based on a series of Facebook posts, the 100 short chapters or "days" in the book present a chain of related words, some dealing with the traditional--the buffalo hunt, the seasons--and others cheekily capturing the detritus of ... Read more
As an Elder once said, "Learn one Cree word a day for 100 days, and emerge a different person." In 100 Days of Cree , Neal McLeod offers us a portal into another way of understanding the universe--and our place within it--while demonstrating why this funny, vibrant, and sometimes salacious language is "the sexiest of them all" (according to Tomson Highway). Based on a series of Facebook posts, the 100 short chapters or "days" in the book present a chain of related words, some dealing with the traditional--the buffalo hunt, the seasons--and others cheekily capturing the detritus of ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
University of Regina Press
Condition
New
Number of Pages
325
Place of Publication
Regina, Canada
ISBN
9780889774292
SKU
V9780889774292
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About Neal McLeod
From the James Smith Cree Nation in Saskatchewan and editor of Indigenous Poetics in Canada, Neal McLeod is a poet, painter, and educator. Arok Wolvengrey is Professor of Algonquian Languages and Linguistics at First Nations University of Canada in Regina.
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