Cree Star Stories

Jesse Barber
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  • LANGUAGE LEARNING

Jesse Rae Archibald Barber is sharing a series of his poems inspired in part by Cree Star Stories. These stories are oral traditions about the origins of the constellations and our spiritual connections to the land and the cosmos. This series is in Cree and English.

Episodes

  1. 2024-03-29

    Wesakacak Braids the Sun

    In “wîsahkêcâhk Braids the Sun,” Jesse Archibald-Barber reworks the traditional story of how wîsahkêcâhk snared the sun to make earth warmer and more comfortable, only to soon regret the calamitous consequences of his shenanigans!

    24 min
  2. pîsim pimâcihowin / The Sun Voyage and ispîhkacâhkosak kâ-nipicik / When Stars Die

    2022-12-08

    pîsim pimâcihowin / The Sun Voyage and ispîhkacâhkosak kâ-nipicik / When Stars Die

    Host Jesse Archibald-Barber shares two original short poems - about our place in the Cosmos, pîsim pimâcihowin / The Sun Voyage and ispîhk acâhkosak kâ-nipicik / When Stars Die (an excerpt). He reads both poems in Cree and then in English and discusses how the Cree language ends up shaping the English poem, bringing in new ideas in the poem itself.

    15 min
  3. Star Gift

    2022-04-29

    Star Gift

    Jesse Rae Archibald Barber shares two poems and their meanings. The first poem is titled achahkos miyikowisiwin (Star Gift) and the second poem is about language revitalization.This episode is in both Cree and English.

    11 min
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About

Jesse Rae Archibald Barber is sharing a series of his poems inspired in part by Cree Star Stories. These stories are oral traditions about the origins of the constellations and our spiritual connections to the land and the cosmos. This series is in Cree and English.

Information

  • Creator
    Jesse Barber
  • Episodes
    3
  • Rating
    Clean
  • Copyright
    © Jesse Barber
  • Show Website
    Cree Star Stories