Bibliography of Materials on the
Cree Language
Ahenakew, Freda (1987)
Cree Language Structures: a Cree Approach. Winnipeg: Pemmican Publications.

Ahenakew, Freda (editor and translator) (1989)
Kiskinahamawâkan-âcimowinisa / Student Stories. Written by Cree-speaking students. Winnipeg, Manitoba: Department of Linguistics, University of Manitoba.

Ahenakew, Freda & H. C. Wolfart (editors and translators) (1992)
Kôhkominawkak otâcimowiniwâwa: Our Grandmothers' Lives As Told In Their Own Words. Stories by Glecia Bear et al., with English translation and extensive notes. Saskatoon, Saskatchewan: Fifth House Publishers.

Ahenakew, Freda & H. C. Wolfart (editors and translators) (1998)
Ana kâ-pimwêwêhahk okakêskihkêmowina: The Counselling Speeches of Jim Kâ-Nîpitêhtêw. Winnipeg, Manitoba: University of Manitoba Press. Publications of the Algonquian Text Society, 5.

Bellegarde, Jean L. and Solomon Ratt (1992a)
Cree, Language of the Plains.. Regina: Sasketchewan Indian Federated College.

Bellegarde, Jean L. and Solomon Ratt (1992b)
Cree, Language of the Plains: Workbook. Regina: Sasketchewan Indian Federated College.

Bloomfield, Leonard (1930)
Sacred Stories of the Sweet Grass Cree. Canada. National Museum Bulletin 60, Anthropological Series 11. (Reprinted AMS Press, New York, 1976: Fifth House, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, 1993.)

Bloomfield, Leonard (1934)
Plains Cree Texts. Publications of the American Ethnological Society 16. New York: G. E. Stechert & Co. (Reprinted AMS Press, New York, 1974.)

LeClaire, Sister Nancy and George Cardinal (1998)
The Alberta Elders' Cree Dictionary. Edmonton: University of Alberta Press.

Okimāsis, Jean (2004)
Cree: Language of the Plains/nēhiyawēwin: paskwāwi-pı̄kiskwēwin. Regina: Canadian Plains Research Center, University of Regina. ISBN 0-88977-155-3. (This is a pedagogical grammar.)

Vandall, Peter & Joe Douquette (1987)
Wâskahikaniwiyiniw-âcimowina / Stories of the House People. Edited and translated by Freda Ahenakew. Winnipeg: University of Manitoba Press.

Whitecalf, Sarah (1993)
Kinêhiyâwiwininaw Nêhiyawêwin / The Cree Language is Our Identity: The La Ronge Lectures of Sarah Whitecalf. Edited and translated by H. C. Wolfart and Freda Ahenakew. Winnipeg, Manitoba: University of Manitoba Press.

Wolfart, H. Christoph (1969)
An Outline of Plains Cree Morphology. Ph.D. dissertation, Yale University.

Wolfart, H. Christoph (1971)
"Plains Cree Internal Syntax and the Problem of Noun Incorporation," Proceedings of the International Congress of Americanists 38.3.511-218.

Wolfart, H. Christoph (1973)
"Plains Cree: A Grammatical Study," Transactions of the American Philosophical Society n.s. 63.5.

Wolfart, H. Christoph (1978)
"How Many Obviatives: Sense and Reference in a Cree Verb Paradigm," in Eung-Do Cook and Jonathan Kaye (eds.) Linguistic Studies of Native Canada (Vancouver: University of British Columbia) pp. 255-271.

Wolfart, H. Christoph (1991)
"Passives With and Without Agents," in H. Christoph Wolfart (ed.) Linguistic Studies Presented to John L. Finlay (Algonquian and Iroquoian Linguistics 8).

Wolfart, H. Christoph (1996)
"Sketch of Cree, an Algonquian Language," in Ives Goddard (ed.) Handbook of North American Languages. Volume 17: Languages. Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution. pp. 390-439.

Wolfart, H. Christoph & Ahenakew, Freda (1998)
The Student's Dictionary of Literary Plains Cree: Based on Contemporary Literary Texts. Winnipeg, Manitoba: Department of Linguistics, University of Manitoba. Memoir 15, Alonquian and Iroquoian Linguistics. Available from: http://www.umanitoba.ca/linguistics/pubs/memoirs.html.
Wolfart, H. Christoph & Janet F. Carroll (1981)
Meet Cree: Guide to the Cree Language. Edmonton: University of Alberta Press.
Wolvengrey, Arok (2001)
Cree Words. Vol 1: Cree-English. Vol 2: English-Cree.. Regina: Canadian Plains Research Center, University of Regina. lxxxiv + 622pp. ISBN 0-88977-127-8.
By far the most comprehensive and accurate dictionary of Plains Cree. All Cree words are given in both the roman and syllabic writing systems. The front matter provides detailed information about how to use the dictionary, especially the grammatical information provided.

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