Margaret Fireman
Chisasibi group helps Cree language flourish
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Margaret Fireman understands that language upholds her culture. Without language, oral traditions and wisdom passed down from her Cree ancestors would be lost. Language, she says,
is closely tied to the land. And so when Fireman, a residential school survivor and then-manager of Chisasibi Heritage and Cultural Centre in northeastern Quebec, was searching for a program to
bolster the preservation of her community's language of James Bay Cree, she chose carefully.