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Nov 10, 2020 · The cover of “The First Metis – A New Nation” by Dr. Anne Anderson, published in 1985. Photo provided by the author. 8. notikwew (elder) One of the most remarkable things about Dr. Anne Anderson is that she only started her illustrious career in her mid-sixties. Despite her promise to her mother, as it so often does, life got in the way.
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On February 3rd, 1906, on a river lot farm four miles east of St. Albert, Anne Anderson was born to Elizabeth (Betsy) Callihoo, a Cree woman and William Joseph Gairdner, who was of French-Scottish descent. When she was first born, Anne was a particularly small child, so much so that her mother made a bed for her in a shoebox lined in rabbit fur. Wh...
On the first of February, 1965, Elizabeth passed away at the age of 83. Before her death, Elizabeth implored her daughter to never forget the Cree language, a plea that sparked a fire in Anne to undertake a monumental task that would consume her life for the next thirty years. Soon after Elizabeth’s passing, Anne was forced to retire from her caree...
Simultaneous to her education efforts, Anne also embarked on a decades-long career preserving the Cree language in writing. When she first began teaching in the late 1960s, she was disappointed with the lack of learning resources available for teaching Cree. She reached out to reserves, schools, and churches seeking written materials, and eventuall...
Dr. Anne wrote almost 100 publications, but one was the most groundbreaking. In 1975, she created Dr. Anne Anderson’s Metis Cree Dictionary, a translation of a 38000 English dictionary. She even added new words as technologies were developed, improving her dictionary as the years passed. Anne didn’t end up stopping there as she produced,
Dr. Anne Anderson was born on a river lot farm four miles east of St. Albert, Alberta. In 1979 she formed her own company, Cree Productions. She also developed the Dr. Anne Anderson Native Heritage and Cultural Centre, won the Alberta Achievement Award in 1975, the Order of Canada in 1979, plus an Honorary Doctorate from the University of Alberta, and the Edmonton Female Citizenship Award.
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Anne Anderson (1906-1997) pioneered the teaching of the Cree language in western Canada. A Métis elder once described Anderson as “the heart of the [Métis] Nation.” In her long and active life, Anderson was a nurse, a teacher and the author of more than 90 books on Métis history and culture and the Cree language.
1. Anne Gairdner (Anderson, Irvine),C.M., LL.D. (1906-1997) At the time of her passing, the 91-year-old Anne Anderson-Irvine was a grandmother, a retired nurse, a teacher and a linguist who authored more than 90 books on Métis history, Cree language, herbs, legends and children’s coloring books.
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Edmonton public schools, Anderson opened the Dr. Anne Anderson Native Heritage and Cultural Centre in 1984. The centre was used for many things, such as a community hub, Cree classes for both children and adults, and a library. Not only was Dr. Anne an extremely successful teacher, but she was also an author, who
