Editing Cree language (section)

== Support and revitalization ==
As of 2017, Cree had about 117,000 documented speakers.<ref name=":1" /> They are still a minority language given the dominance of English and French in Canada. There are programs in place to maintain and revitalize the language, though. In the Quebec James Bay Cree community, a resolution was put into action in 1988 that made Cree the language of education in primary schools and eventually elementary schools.<ref name=":3">{{cite journal |last1=McAlpine |first1=Lynn |last2=Herodier |first2=Daisy |title=Schooling as a Vehicle for Aboriginal Language Maintenance: Implementing Cree as the Language of Instruction in Northern Quebec |journal=Canadian Journal of Education |date=22 June 1994 |volume=19 |issue=2 |pages=128–141 |doi=10.2307/1495244 |url=https://journals.sfu.ca/cje/index.php/cje-rce/article/view/2678 |id={{ProQuest|215381294}} |jstor=1495244 |url-access=subscription }}</ref>

The Mistissini council decided to require their employees to learn Cree syllabics in 1991.<ref name=":3" />

The Cree School Board now has its annual report available in both English and Cree.<ref name=":3" />

There is a push to increase the availability of Cree stations on the radio.<ref name=":3" />

In 2013, free Cree language electronic books for beginners became available for [[Alberta]] language teachers.<ref>{{Cite web
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The Government of the Northwest Territories<ref name=":2" /> releases an annual report on First Nations languages. The 2016–2017 report features successes they have had in revitalizing and supporting and projects they are working on. For example, they released a Medicinal Plant Guide that had information in both Cree and English. An important part of making the guide was input from the elders. Another accomplishment was the dubbing of a movie in Cree. They are working on broadcasting a radio station that "will give listeners music and a voice for our languages".<ref name=":2" />

[[Joshua Whitehead]] is one writer who has used the Cree language as part of his poetry.<ref>{{cite web |last1=Whitehead |first1=Joshua |title='mihkokwaniy' |url=https://www.cbc.ca/radio/newfire/opening-up-about-indigenous-intimacy-1.4181758/read-mihkokwaniy-by-poet-joshua-whitehead-1.4201873 |website=CBC |publisher=CBC/Radio-Canada |access-date=11 December 2021}}</ref>