Monday Music: The Beatles' Blackbird Sung in Algonquian

From an article in Open Culture, "The Beatles’ ‘Blackbird’ Sung in the Indigenous Mi’kmaq Language"

To raise awareness of her native language, 16-year-old Emma Stevens sang a version of The Beatles’ 1968 classic “Blackbird” in the Mi’kmaq language, an Eastern Algonquian language spoken by nearly 11,000 in Canada and the United States. A member of the Eskasoni First Nation, the Nova Scotia student sang lyrics that were painstakingly translated by Katani Julian, a teacher who works in language revitalization.

 

 

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