Tomson Highway releases plays in Cree (fwd link)

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Tomson Highway releases plays in Cree

Monday, November 8, 2010 | 9:32 PM ET
CBC News
Canada

Award-winning Canadian playwright Tomson Highway is releasing two of
his most famous works in his first language — Cree.

The Cree versions of the plays The Rez Sisters and Dry Lips Oughta
Move to Kapuskasing were officially released at a launch party at the
University of Ottawa Monday night. Highway, 58, said a publisher,
Fitzhenry and Whiteside, approached him earlier this year and
expressed its interest in releasing the plays — both of which have
been performed in English since the 1980s — in Cree.

Read more: http://www.cbc.ca/arts/theatre/story/2010/11/08/tomson-highway-cree389.html#ixzz14o8OdPsP