CREE ANTHOLOGY and CREE DICTIONARY: CASTEL'S
ENGLISH-CREE DICTIONARY and MEMOIRS OF THE ELDERS
Below: a two-volume publication with CD-ROM
of text and photos ©2001, ISBN 0-9689858-0-7 available spiral bound (xxxviii,
1067 pages) 
and ISBN 0-9689858-2-3 on CD-ROM, retailed @ $99 + s/h where
applicable—paper copies now out of print!
- Hundreds
of pages of verbatim transcriptions of the Cree interviews, with English
translations, provide a wealth of authentic Rock Cree material.
- A
researched and referenced preface and introduction outline the purpose of
the anthology and sketch the key grammatical elements of the dialect.
- The
appendices include quick reference tables and special reference sections
that show the main grammatical patterns.
- A
comprehensive, annotated glossary of Cree words and an English-Cree index
complete the collection.
- The
texts are enhanced by many photographs from Pukatawagan,
Fifteen audio CDs of the recorded interviews and the English-Cree Dictionary are available at cost and by request. They may be copied for educational, nonprofit purposes only, and for personal use. A set of the 15 audio CDs is available for $25 (far less than the actual cost of production)* The interviews may also be reproduced on request as DVD slideshows with historical and contemporary pictures from the editor’s Pukatawagan files.
*For
information concerning availability of the 15 audio CDs, send an e-mail request
to Westfall@westman.wave.ca or westfalld@brandonu.ca . Copies of individual titles of the audio CDs are
also produced on request for the reimbursement cost of postage and production
materials (blank CDs and ink) @5.00 CDN. Contact the editor by e-mail if you
are interested in particular disks that are listed and described in the
introductory, roman-numeral pages of the book (Intro below).
Click Intro to open the pdf file of
pages i-xxxviii. You will need Adobe Acrobat Reader v. 5 or higher. Download
the latest free version of Acrobat from www.adobe.com
if your version is outdated. You may also request e-mail attachments of any of
the individual download items by contacting the editor (above).
The CD-ROM contains the entire text of the
book as well as many supplementary files, including all the original photograph
files used in the book. Click Read Me to open the
pdf file of computer requirements to use the CD-ROM, also available separately
for $5, to cover cost of postage and production materials.
Click left
button to download a zip file of pages 1-342 from the Memoirs of the Elders.
Although not costly, WinZip is not a free application. An evaluation version of
WinZip is available from www.winzip.com .
(Winzip may be needed to open a downloaded zip file.) In addition, a
self-extracting file of pages 343-600 may be
downloaded here. The Glossary may be downloaded here, too—high speed
Internet connection recommended. Click Index to download a copy of the
English-Cree index and examples of Woods
Cree grammatical patterns. (You may have to adjust the security settings in
Internet Options and in your Firewall Privacy options to permit the opening of
these three self-extracting files.)
For news related to the Memoirs project,
click right to open the pdf file CECD notes (Addenda)
.
Note the folder where your extracted files
are placed so that you can open them later, or copy them to removable disks.
See the addenda file for news on continuing Cree
language documentation, recording and adaptation for teaching purposes. Other
bilingual materials are in preparation.
The text of the
illustrated bilingual reader Defeating the
Wihtiko is an extract from Castel's English-Cree Dictionary and
Memoirs of the Elders. A short biography of the late Sidney Castel is available
(click on “biography”). You may listen
to the audio recording here; it is a Zip file.
The supplemental volume
Speaking to the Future: Additional Memoirs of the Elders of Pukatawagan is near
completion. It is anticipated that stories and recorded commentaries by the
following contributors will be included: Gabriel Bighetty (1930-2002), Peter
Castel (1934-2004), Hyacinth Colomb (from a 1991 video), and Jerome
Colomb. A complete glossary will be
included, following the format of the 2001 publication. The
transcript, glossary and index for Gabriel Bighetty’s interview are ready,
except for final proofreading. It is to be available in mp3 computer video
format, or on DVD or VHS by special request for educational purposes. The Cree
transcripts have been completed for all four contributors.
Papers presented by the
editor at various annual sessions of the Comparative and International
Education Society of Canada (CIESC) are available free by e-mail request from Westfall@westman.wave.ca . The two
most recent papers concern Woods Cree cultural elements embedded in the
language. The commentaries are based closely on the Cree transcripts in the
Memoirs of the Elders. Click Halifax 2003 to
open the pdf file for that year’s presentation, Winnipeg
2004 for a presentation paper that discusses the importance of a Cree
language-based approach to traditional cultural content.
DAVID
WESTFALL
Academic
Autobiography
Since 1988, I have worked as a travelling
professor and as a centre coordinator in the Brandon University Northern
Teacher Education Program (BUNTEP). I have taught a variety of teaching methods
courses in English language arts and in English as a second or additional
language, as well as courses in English composition, introductory linguistics
and language acquisition.
Born in Idaho in 1942, I received a B.A.
degree in German and English at Utah State University (1964) and pursued
graduate studies in Germanic languages in 1964-1965, concentrating on German
language, philology and literature in Marburg, Germany. I acquired a Master of
Arts degree in Germanics at the University of Washington (Seattle, 1966) and
completed several years of further postgraduate work in Germanics and German
literature at the University of British Columbia (Vancouver), where I also
completed a program in secondary school teacher education and acquired teacher
certification. I have also taught at Iowa State University (Ames) and in
British Columbia. See the faculty web page at http://www.brandonu.ca/Academic/Education/bios/index/htm.
(This site was
updated on March 6, 2009.)