Star Gift
Air date: April 28, 2022
Summary
Jesse Rae Archibald Barber shares two poems and their meanings. The first poem is titled achahkos miyikowisiwin (Star Gift) and the second poem is about language revitalization.This episode is in both Cree and English.
In “wîsahkêcâhk Braids the Sun,” Jesse Archibald-Barber reworks the traditional story of how wîsahkêcâhk snared the sun to make earth warmer and more comfortable, only to soon regret the calamitous consequences of his shenanigans!