Bertha Catholique archived 3,500 stories, translating them from Chipewyan to English. | CBCNorth
Bertha Catholique is the first of 17 people to finishing archiving thousands of stories in her language for the CBC's Indigenous archives language project. She says she worked on about 3,500 stories, which she translated from Denesuline — or Chipewyan — to English.
The translators, in Yellowknife, Iqaluit, Whitehorse, Montreal and Toronto, have been working for about three years to preserve and archive 75,000 hours worth of recorded stories collected over six decades in eight Indigenous languages: Gwich'in, Inuvialuktun, Tłı̨chǫ, North Slavey, South Slavey, Dënësųłinë́, Cree and Inuktitut.
"I always wanted to know the real truth, and she told the truth and I recorded it," said Catholique. "So that really stood out in my mind."That's not the only time Catholique has heard a familiar voice on the old tapes. She recognized many people — from cousins, to uncles, to friends. "I always interpreted for him then. So ever since then I just thought, 'OK, well I'll just go with the language.' And I love doing it too."
"Tłı̨chǫ and Chipewyan are almost really close. [Another translator] would say something in Tłı̨chǫ language, and then that's how I'd pick it up."
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