Novalee Fox, Willis Janvier and Samson LaMontagne have turned to social media to share their passion for Indigenous language learning with the younger generation.
Novalee Fox: Cree language revitalization
Novalee Fox is an Indigenous content creator from Ochapowace First Nation, who makes content to promote a healthy way of living, and Cree language revitalization.
“When I was a little girl, my chapans [great-grandparents] passed away when they were like 90 years old, but they always spoke to me nothing but Cree from zero to four years old,” she said. “I was around Cree-speaking my whole life.”
Although she grew up around Cree and could speak the language a little, Fox says couldn’t understand the stories that were being told, which always bothered her.
When she graduated from high school, she attended post-secondary at the Regina campus of First Nations University of Canada, where she started taking Cree classes.
However, her language reclamation path didn’t start until she was on a healing journey.
Fox …