This project is an extension of the Cree-Innu linguistic atlas, co-created between Prof. Marie-Odile Junker, from Carleton University, Prof. Marguerite MacKenzie from Memorial University, the Department of Cree Programs of the Cree School Board in Quebec, the Gift of Language and Culture (Saskachewan Cree), the Innu Education Authority in Labrador, and l'Institut culturel et éducatif montagnais in Quebec.
The goal of the project was to co-create an on-line, multimedia linguistic atlas of the Cree and Innu dialects of Canada. The creation of the atlas allows many training opportunities for sound editing, multimedia programming and linguistic description to aboriginal students and creates contacts between the curriculum developers of the Western Cree dialects and those of the Eastern Cree and Innu dialects.
My role in the project is to work with Michif speakers in Manitoba to enrichen the language representation by adding Michif representation to the atlas, from a number of Manitoba locations.
This project, Ressources en ligne pour langues vivantes, is funded by SSHRC Aboriginal Research Grant 856-2009-0081 to Marie-Odile Junker (PI) for which I am a co-investigator, along with Dr Marguerite MacKenzie, Dr Rand Valentine and Dr Arok Wolvengrey. Collaborators include Dr Julie Brittain, Mrs Ruth Salt and Ms Martha Michell. Partners include the Cree School Board, Institut Tshakapesh, The Gift of Language and Culture Project and University College of the North.