Growing up in the community of pakitahwākan sākahikan, Sturgeon Lake First Nation in Saskatchewan, Belinda kakiyosēw Daniels was surrounded by the nēhiyawēwin (Cree) language. Even though she did not learn to speak it until her twenties, listening to it from birth would be critical to that process. Being immersed in the sounds, and intonation, would become “a stepping stone to reclamation.”
