Review of The Cree Language Is Our Identity: The La Range Lectures af Sarah Whitecalf

Authors

Rory Larson, University of Nebraska-LincolnFollow

Date of this Version

1994

Document Type

Article

Comments

Published in Great Plains Quarterly 14:3 (Summer 1994). Copyright © 1994 Center for Great Plains Studies, University of Nebraska–Lincoln.

Abstract

The late Sarah Whitecalf was born on the Moosomin Reserve in Western Saskatchewan in 1919 and grew up there and on the nearby Sweet Grass Reserve. Raised by her mother and grandparents, she was never sent to school and remained a monolingual speaker of Plains Cree throughout her life. Her last twenty years were spent at Saskatoon, where she became a valued informant for scholars and educators attempting to study or revive Cree traditions.