The Alberta Elders' Cree Dictionary is a comprehensive guide to what has been described as "the language that knit Canada together." This 600 page volume covers Cree/English and English/Cree definitions, offering English translations of both Plains (Y dialect) and Northern Cree (TH dialect).

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A two-volume, Cree-English/English Cree dictionary. Cree is the most widely spoken aboriginal language in Canada. This new dictionary has benefited from the knowledge of a number of Cree language professionals and Elders. It contains over 15,000 Cree engries, and 35,000 English entries.

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Among Anglo-Canadian fur traders of the early 19th century, George Nelson stands out for his interest in the life and ways of the Native people he encountered. His letter-journal gives a more detailed portrayal of Algonquian religion than any other source before the 20th century. It describes the characteristics of individual spirit beings, the use of the "shaking tent" to facilitate communication between humans and spirits, the spirit-guardian relationship, the windigo monster, the significance of dreams, religious aspects of medicine, and myths of animal and human origins.

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When buffalo were many on the western plains, when Cree and Blackfoot warred in unrelenting enmity, when the Sun Dance and the shaking tent were still a way of life these were the days of Chief Thundershild (1849-1927). His stories of a fierce and vanished freedom are reprinted here, exactly as he told them to Edward Ahenakew in 1923. His voice, simple and poetic, resonates with the wide expanse of sky, the song of the wind, the sound of water.

The other voice in this volume is equally moving, but in a very different way. It is the voice of Old Keyam, pained and angry, raised in protest against the Indians' lethargy and the white man's insensitivity. A fictional character, semi-autobiographical, he is very much the voice of Edward Ahenakew, telling of life on the reservations in the new white world of the early twentieth century.

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The definitive account of the Plains Cree since its publication in 1940, this edition, now reprinted for the fourth time, contains two additional sections: one comparing the Plains Cree with tribes to the east of them, the second with other groups inhabiting the Plains.

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