Regina man inducted into Order of Canada for creating Cree language studies degree

'My greatest accomplishment in the last 40 years has been to bring back our traditional stories amongst our people and tell those stories in the language,' Solomon Ratt said. .Ratt said he started teaching in 1984 and created the course with his own materials, creating his own videos and publications for his students.

“There was nothing available for me to work with,” he said. “I had to create new materials. There was hardly anyone around to teach the language at that time.”top news stories from Canada and around the world. “My greatest accomplishment in the last 40 years has been to bring back our traditional stories amongst our people and tell those stories in the language,” Ratt said.Ratt’s former student Jesse Archibald-Barber said he was an “incredible professor and always very helpful.”

Archibald-Barber said the degree program enables students to “see that they too can continue to study and have success in the Cree language.”“I would love to read a murder mystery in Cree but we are not there yet,” Ratt said. “We are slowly building up a library of Cree materials very slowly but there are very few people out there who actually read and write the language.

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