MASKWACÎS, Alberta — Lucy Johnson never spoke the Cree language when she was growing up. Her father wouldn’t allow it. He called it “jungle talk.” He didn’t elaborate much until he was weeks away from ...

THE PRECIOUS GIFT I don’t have my Cree language. I wasn’t surrounded by it at home, and it was banned at school. My grandfather was forced to obey the Anglican Church’s rules. One of them was no Cree.

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