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3 legends about Ayashaau, Mishikaakihkiyaahkwaau and Piipiihchaau. Traditonal songs that go with the legends.
Age 10+EcCh-008-004
0.00 mb
27 mins
1984
2003
Violet Bates and Lynn Whidden
Alice Duff
Alice Duff
Abraham sings and discusses cree hymn which he learned from Reverend Walton many years ago.
Age 6+EcCh-008-008
0.81 mb
4.43 mins
19??
2004
Alisson Bobbish
Alisson Bobbish
Abraham begins to tell the story of battles that were fought among the cree and Inuk people.
Age 12+EcCh-008-005
0.62 mb
3 mins
19??
2004
Unknown
Alisson Bobbish
Alisson Bobbish
Abraham sings and explains about his goose song.There is also a story that is missing its beginning. He also sings one Cree hymn.
Age 10+EcCh-008-001
1.25 mb
7.16 mins
1982
2003
Lynn Whidden, Violet Bates
Daisy Herodier
Daisy Herodier
Abraham recounts the story of Iyaashaau and his son. Iyaashaau abandoned his son on an island far from home, but with the help of the seagull and fish, Iyaashaau`s son finds his way home. When the son returns home he seeks revenge on his father and sets his mother and siblings free by turning them into birds.
Age 8+Abraham shares some traditional songs about animals, specifically the goose and fox. He also mentions the introduction of the fiddle and how it was adopted.
Age 6+EcCh-008-006
1.95 mb
11.22 mins
19??
2004
Alisson Bobbish
Alisson Bobbish
Traditional songs about animals and hunting animals.
Age 8+EcCh-008-003
0.00 mb
10 mins
1984
2003
Violet Bates, Lynn Whidden
Alice Duff
Alice Duff
The first story tells about how rituals were performed to create good. It is a story about when a community nearly went into starvation and how an elder performed a shaking tent to prevent the community from this bad omen. The second story tells how an old man who was sick was brought back to health by similar rituals.
Age 6+EcCh-028-001
2.90 mb
16.56 mins
19??
2004
Violet Bates/unknown interviewer
Suzanne House
Suzanne House
Once upon a time animals were still talking. The wolverine met all kinds of other animals and talked to them as if they were his brothers and sisters.
(Cree terminology is very hard to understand.)
Age 12+meeting on Education- CLIP ,teenagers. Chisasibi
1. Bertie Wapachee
2. Moses Sandy
3. Roderick Pachano
4. Linda Visitor
Age 12+EcCh-023-001
8.50 mb
49 mins
199?
2003
unknown
Alice Duff
Alice Duff
Aapihtuwaapinwaashkim was paddling with his family out in the bay when a sudden wind storm came. Others believed he didn`t survive. He was able to steer his canoe from tipping over. An Inuit shaman was trying to kill him.
Age 6+EcCh-204-003
4.80 mb
0 mins
1965
2006
George Bauer
Brian Webb
Brian Webb
A story of a man who was very sick and hope is fading for him to get better. An elder cures him by giving him with hot water to drink.
Age 6+EcCh-204-002
5.67 mb
0 mins
1965
2006
George Bauer
Brian Webb
Brian Webb
A group of people are starving long ago and they find tracks of caribou. The hunters are already very weak and cannot chase the caribou. An elder goes with the hunters towards the caribou. They see the caribou on the lake ice. The elder instructs the hunters to simply walk towards the caribou. The caribou don`t flee and are killed.
Age 6+EcCh-204-005
1.84 mb
2 mins
1965
2006
George Bauer
Brian Webb
Brian Webb
An elder long ago had shaman power and could easily catch beaver. After he chiselled a hole in ice near a beaver lodge, he laid out a blanket and the beaver came out of the water to sit on the blanket.
Age 6+EcCh-204-004
3.39 mb
0 mins
1965
2006
George Bauer
Brian Webb
Brian Webb
A story of an Inuk going to set a net at a lake in his kayak. A young friend watches from the shore. He paddles to a small island to look for eggs and is chased by a polar bear. He gets attacked by the polar bear and the young man watches. His brother takes revenge on the polar bear. After killing the polar bear, he sees that it was a very strong animal, full of sinew and muscle.
Age 12+EcCh-204-007
11.02 mb
0 mins
1965
2006
George Bauer
Brian Webb
Brian Webb
Boy, Animals, Food, Man, Supernatural, Transportation, Inter-racial
Charlie talks about his father`s father`s father; his great-grandfather. This story is at a time when the Cree people began having guns. This is a time when they had little food. Finding a herd of caribou, Charlie`s great-grandfather decides to use snares instead of using the gun and catches the entire herd of caribou.
Age 6+EcCh-204-001
5.36 mb
0 mins
1965
2006
George Bauer
Brian Webb
Brian Webb
Family, Tradition, Past, Animals, Artifacts, Food, Man, Supernatural
Charlie talks about elders he remembered from Fort Chimo. One made a pair of snowshoes in one day and the other made a canoe in one day also.
Age 6+EcCh-204-006
3.11 mb
3.23 mins
1965
2006
George Bauer
Brian Webb
Brian Webb
Willie Trapper Interviews Cree Politicians and asks them what they think about the up coming 1996 referendum:
George Wapachee(Nemaska)Matthew Mukash (Whapmagoostui)
Annie House (Chisasibi)
William Mianscum (Mistissini)
Roderick Pachanos(Chisasibi)
Abel Bosum (Ouje-Bougoumou)
Age 12+EcMi-505-001
3.27 mb
19 mins
1996
2003
Willie Trapper
Titus Shecapio
Titus Shecapio
Aayaashaau legend of how he was left on an island and tries to get back home. The boy Aayaashaau overcomes many obstacles to return home. Aayaashaau also purifies the land of people who do wrong.
Age 10+EcCh-202-001
12.72 mb
0 mins
1965
2006
George Bauer
Brian Webb
Brian Webb
2016-09-29 00:00:00
Family, Boy, Animals, Man, Woman, Predictions, Supernatural
Legend of Stone Canoe as he tries to kill his son in law. Stone Canoe tries several times to kill his son in law but only finds that his attempts have failed and get back at him.
Age 6+EcCh-202-002
11.94 mb
0 mins
1965
2006
George Bauer
Brian Webb
Brian Webb
2016-09-29 00:00:00
EcCh-008-008.mp3