Download or read book A Language of Our Own : The Genesis of Michif, the Mixed Cree-French Language of the Canadian Metis written by Peter Bakker Researcher University of Aarhus and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 1997-05-08 with total page 341 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Michif language -- spoken by descendants of French Canadian fur traders and Cree Indians in western Canada -- is considered an "impossible language" since it uses French for nouns and Cree for verbs, and comprises two different sets of grammatical rules. Bakker uses historical research and fieldwork data to present the first detailed analysis of this language and how it came into being.