{"id":39447,"date":"2015-01-15T00:59:04","date_gmt":"2015-01-15T00:59:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=39447"},"modified":"2017-05-05T16:05:37","modified_gmt":"2017-05-05T16:05:37","slug":"a-language-of-our-own-the-genesis-of-michif-the-mixed-cree-french-language-of-the-canadian-metis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=39447","title":{"rendered":"A Language of Our Own: The Genesis of Michif, the Mixed Cree-French Language of the Canadian M\u00e9tis"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/global.oup.com\/academic\/product\/a-language-of-our-own-9780195097115\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><em><strong>A Language of Our Own: The Genesis of Michif, the Mixed Cree-French Language of the Canadian M\u00e9tis<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/global.oup.com\/academic\/?cc=us&amp;lang=en\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Oxford University Press<\/a><br \/>\n1997-06-05<br \/>\n336 pages<br \/>\n1 linecut, 5 maps<br \/>\n6-1\/8 x 9-1\/4 inches<br \/>\nHardcover ISBN: 9780195097115<br \/>\nPaperback ISBN: 9780195097122<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/pure.au.dk\/portal\/en\/linpb@dac.au.dk\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>Peter Bakker<\/strong><\/a>, Associate professor<br \/>\nDepartment of Aesthetics and Communication<br \/>\n<em>Aarhus University, Aarhus, Denmark<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/global.oup.com\/academic\/product\/a-language-of-our-own-9780195097115\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/global.oup.com\/academic\/covers\/pop-up\/9780195097122\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Michif_language\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">The Michif language<\/a>\u2014spoken by descendants of French Canadian fur traders and <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Cree\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Cree Indians<\/a> in <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Western_Canada\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">western Canada<\/a>\u2014is considered an &#8220;impossible language&#8221; since it uses French for nouns and Cree for verbs, and comprises two different sets of grammatical rules. Bakker uses historical research and fieldwork data to present the first detailed analysis of this language and how it came into being.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Michif language\u2014spoken by descendants of French Canadian fur traders and Cree Indians in western Canada\u2014is considered an &#8220;impossible language&#8221; since it uses French for nouns and Cree for verbs, and comprises two different sets of grammatical rules. Bakker uses historical research and fieldwork data to present the first detailed analysis of this language and how it came into being.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1649,11,19,459,8,17,3015],"tags":[19063,342,19062],"class_list":["post-39447","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anthropology","category-books","category-canada","category-history","category-media-archive","category-monographs","category-native-americans","tag-michif-language","tag-oxford-university-press","tag-peter-bakker"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39447","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=39447"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39447\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":53821,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39447\/revisions\/53821"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=39447"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=39447"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=39447"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}