Indigenous Languages Series: Isabel Scribe and Lisa Muswagon Episode 1, Cree

Isabel Scribe and Lisa Muswagon are Pimicikamak Cree Nation members, also known as Cross Lake in Northern Manitoba. Lisa grew up in northern Manitoba, the Interlake and Winnipeg. Isabel and her husband Charles raised Lisa and her siblings in ceremonies and with traditions. Isabel provides culturally responsive counselling, therapy, and indigenous ceremonies and empowerment through storytelling, workshops, sharing circles, and much more.

Cree is one of the most widely spoken Indigenous languages in Canada. In this first episode of the Indigenous Languages series, fluent Swampy Cree speaker Isabel Scribe and her daughter Lisa go over some basics of the Cree language.

This segment of the Indigenous Languages Series was filmed in the Canadian Museum for Human Rights. Situated on ancestral land on Treaty One territory.

The project is funded by the government of Canada through the Department of Canadian Heritage and distributed with help from the Inuit Broadcasting Corporation and First Peoples Radio Inc.

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