This repository makes available the source texts of stories from Indigenous Storybooks in Markdown format. The stories have been translated into a growing number of Indigenous languages as well as English, French, and Spanish (and a small number of community translations in various other languages).
All of the source texts derive from the Little Cree Books project, and were originally written in Plains Cree, Swampy Cree, and English. The markdown files in this repo provide data for several other projects, as well as making possible the creation of bilingual storybooks in many languages.
Each of the folders in the repository is labelled with a (usually two- or three-letter) code that represents the language it is written in (e.g. crk for Plains Cree). A list of available languages and their codes is below.
Each story has also been assigned a four digit number for ease of identification. There is a full list of the stories by number below.
Each of the language folders in the repository contains a series of files containing all of the translations of the story in that language in Markdown format.
The extracted source text of all stories has been provided here in Markdown format. See here for specific details about the format used.
A sequence of two hashes ## on a separate line indicates a page break.
The last section of each story file contains attribution and license information.
Below is a key to the languages covered by this repository and their ISO 639-1 or ISO 639-3 codes.
| ISO code | Language Name |
|---|---|
crk |
Plains Cree / ᓀᐦᐃᔭᐍᐏᐣ |
csw |
Swampy Cree / Omaškêkowak |
en |
English |
es |
Spanish |
fr |
French |
hax |
Haida (Skidegate) / X̱aayda Kil |
hch |
Huichol / Wixárika |
hdn |
Haida (Old Massett) / X̱aad Kil |
hur-che |
Halq'eméylem (Sts'ailes) |
no |
Norwegian (Bokmål) |
zh |
Chinese (Mandarin) |
| ID | Title | Level | License |
|---|---|---|---|
| 0002 | Little Bear's Day | Level 1 | CC BY-NC-SA |
| 0004 | The Seasons | Level 2 | CC BY-NC-SA |
| 0005 | Grandmother Fox | Level 2 | CC BY-NC-SA |
| 0006 | Little Fox | Level 2 | CC BY-NC-SA |
| 0016 | This is Silly Beaver | Level 1 | CC BY-NC-SA |
| 0017 | What are you doing? | Level 1 | CC BY-NC-SA |
| 0018 | What is inside this? | Level 1 | CC BY-NC-SA |
| 0019 | Who is this, Silly Beaver? | Level 1 | CC BY-NC-SA |
| 0020 | A Year in Edmonton | Level 2 | CC BY-NC-SA |
| 0021 | Everything Has a Colour | Level 1 | CC BY-NC-SA |
| 0022 | In My School | Level 1 | CC BY-NC-SA |
| 0023 | On the Playground | Level 1 | CC BY-NC-SA |
The Little Cree Books were originally developed as leveled reading resources for early Cree readers. They are designed using Alberta Education's curricular guidelines.
- Level 1: Kindergarten
- Level 2: Grade 1
- Level 3: Grade 2
- Level 4: Grade 3
- Level 5: Grade 4
- Level 6: Grade 5
- Level 7: Grade 6
- Indigenous Storybooks - Where you can read these stories online
- Little Cree Books - The original source of these stories
- ISB Imagebank - A repository containing all the freely-licensed images that accompany these texts
All stories in this repository have been released under a CC BY-NC-SA license, allowing them to be shared and modified freely for non-commercial purposes as long as the license is kept intact.