As a non-Indigenous student of Oji-Cree, I learned much more than a language | Canada 2017
"You want to go where?"
The travel agent's eyes slowly widened as his finger traced the map north, north, north … until the map ended and his finger was on the bare wall.
The northern Ontario community I wanted to visit was not even on his map. I was no less surprised than him.
I was an international student from Israel doing my PhD in Linguistics at the University of Toronto with a focus on Oji-Cree.
Now the plan was to continue learning in Kingfisher Lake First Nation — despite maps that e