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Freda Ahenakew

Freda Ahenakew (1932-2011), founding Director of the Saskatchewan Indian Languages Institute, earned her M.A. in Cree linguistics at the University of Manitoba. Ahenakew received an honorary LLD from the University of Saskatchewan (1997) and was named to the World Indigenous Education Task Force; she also received the Citizen of the Year Award from the Federation of Saskatchewan Indians (1992), the Order of Canada (1998), and a National Aboriginal Achievement Award (2001). 

 

Books by Freda Ahenakew

mitoni niya nêhiyaw / Cree is Who I Truly Am

nêhiyaw-iskwêw mitoni niya / Me, I am Truly a Cree Woman

as told by Sarah Whitecalf
edited and translated by H.C. Wolfart & Freda Ahenakew
preface by Ted Whitecalf

Cree Language Structures

by (author) Freda Ahenakew

Wisahkecahk Flies To The Moon

by (author) Freda Ahenakew
illustrated by Sherry Farrell Racette

The Counselling Speeches of Jim Ka-Nipitehtew

as told by Jim Kâ-Nîpitêhtêw
edited by Freda Ahenakew & H.C. Wolfart

They Knew Both Sides of Medicine

Cree Tales of Curing and Cursing Told by Alice Ahenakew

translated by H.C. Wolfart & Freda Ahenakew

Our Grandmothers' Lives

As Told in Their Own Words

edited by Freda Ahenakew & H.C. Wolfart

Their Example Showed Me the Way / kwayask ê-kî-pê-kiskinowâpahtihicik

A Cree Woman's Life Shaped by Two Cultures

by (author) Emma Minde
translated by Freda Ahenakew & H.C. Wolfart