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Revised Pīsim Finds Her Miskanaw Teacher's Guide Published
The Curriculum Team is happy to announce the revised Teacher's Guide for Pīsim Finds Her Miskanaw is published! The Teacher’s Guide provides groundbreaking historical information about the culture and language of the Rocky Cree people around present-day South Indian Lake, Manitoba. It focuses on midwifery, miskanaw, journey making, and storytelling. The lessons and activities in the guide support the learning outcomes included in Manitoba curriculum documents. The guide emphasizes the origins of First Peoples, their connections to the land, their culture, types of leadership, the value of oral culture, and the forms of interaction before and during early contact with Europeans.
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Six Seasons Series Author William Dumas brings Pīsim to life on APTN
Six Seasons Author William Dumas speaks with APTN about the inspiration for Pīsim Finds Her Miskanaw.
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Pīsim Picture Book App Launched at UW
The first picture book app in the Six Seasons of Asiniskaw Ithiniwak series is live! Explore Pisim's journey through full-colour illustrations, songs, interactive games, and cultural notes.
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Winnipeg Free Press features NCN Knowledge Keeper Mona Hart and Pisim App
Winnipeg Free Press speaks with Knowledge Keeper Mona Hart about the Pisim picture book app, and revitalizing Cree language.
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Six Seasons at Youngsters 2 Conference
The Six Seasons project will be at the Association for Research in Cultures of Young People's Youngsters 2 conference at Ryerson University this week.
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Rocky Cree Language Event and Preview of Pīsim Finds Her Miskanow App
As part of the University of Winnipeg’s series of Indigenous language events in honour of the UN International Year of Indigenous Languages, the Six Seasons of the Asiniskaw Īthiniwak Project will be presenting on the Asiniskaw Īthiniwak (Rocky Cree) language and giving a preview of the soon-to-be-released Pīsim Finds Her Miskanow picture book app at 12:30pm on March 28. This public event will take place in the University of Winnipeg Aboriginal Student Services Centre and will be followed by a feast.
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Six Seasons Presentation at 2018 Meaningful Play Conference
Mavis Reimer will be presenting “Playing for the Future: A Picture Book App for Cultural Reclamation and Reconciliation” on behalf of the Six Seasons project at the 2018 Meaningful Play conference at Michigan State University on Oct. 11. She is part of the Indigenous Games panel, and will be speaking about the game development in the Pīsim Finds Her Miskanow picture book app.
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Six Seasons Presentation at Synergy and Contradiction: How Picturebooks and Picture Books Work Conference
On September 8, Six Seasons of the Asiniskow Ithiniwakcollaborator, Naomi Hamer, will present “Transmedia storytelling, media genealogies, and picture book theory” at the Synergy and Contradiction: How Picturebooks and Picture Books Work Conference at the University of Cambridge.
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Six Seasons Project Receives Canadian Heritage Grant
The Six Seasons of the Asiniskow Ithiniwak project has received a grant from the Canadian Heritage Aboriginal Language Initiative Program to assist with the development of the Pīsim Finds Her Miskanow app.
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Mavis Reimer Receives ChLA Diversity Research Grant
The Centre for Research in Young People’s Texts and Cultures is pleased to announce that Mavis Reimer has been awarded the 2018 Children’s Literature Association Diversity Research Grant for Six Seasons of the Asiniskaw Īthiniwak App Research and Development.
