by Carl BR Johnson
June 2, 2013
Photo by Carl BR Johnson — Graduates of the Introduction to Cree language course stand proudly with Thereas Gladue, Aboriginal coordinator at Northern Lights College, Louise Isadore, and Antoinette Kinnear.
Dawson Creek’s Cree Grad just sent out another handful of students into the world speaking the Cree language with ease.
“I couldn’t have been more proud of my students,” said Theresa Gladue, aboriginal education coordinator at Northern Lights College. She taught the Introduction to Cree course to the students at the college over a seven-week period.
The night started with all 11 students in the course reading short passages of their choosing in the Cree language in front of the audience members, which numbered more than 30.
“Tonight went really, really well. The students pronounced their Cree very well,” beamed Gladue.
The Cree Grad had a cameo appearance by Dawson Creek City Councillor Shaely Wilbur, who presented each student with mugs with Oreo cookies and coffee inside as a token for their efforts.
Also in attendance were Elders from Gladue’s own Cree Nation tribe, as she wanted them to join in the Grad ceremony – Peter Calahasen, Karen Giroux, Louise Isadore and Verna Cardinal.
Gladue said it was her surreptitious intention to bring the Cree Elders as a final judge, as it were, of her students’ performance of Cree pronunciation.
“I didn’t tell the students, because it would have made them too nervous if they knew they were being judged,” she said.
Elder Calahasen said when he heard the student’s speak the Cree language he could understand it well and, “when they told a joke we knew exactly when to laugh.”
“I think she’s doing a great job at the college with teaching others about our culture and she’s even got her husband speaking Cree,” said Calahasen, referring to Kent Meldrum, Gladue’s husband, who works as a security guard at the college.
He said that he and the other Elders present were impressed that the mostly white collection of students were taking an interest in the Native culture.
Some of the Cree Grad students were from other countries originally.
One such student, Hae Young Noh, is Korean by birth and can now add a third language to her repertoire.
She’s been a naturalized Canadian for 22 years and said the night, “was excellent” and compared the Cree language to her natural Korean language by saying, “some of the sounds are similar, but the grammar is quite different.”
Another Cree Grad student, Diana Mitchell, said the language wasn’t too hard for her to learn and she has intentions to advance her knowledge of it.
“I want to pursue it,” said Mitchell.
“Theresa has made it clear to all of us that we’ve mastered the basics.”
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