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Cree teacher contradicts Standing Rock

Rocky Boy's Indian Reservation tribal council candidate Russell Standing Rock brought down the house at a Republican gathering last week when he said that in his Cree language, the word "obama" meant "buttocks".

But Helen Parker, who has taught Cree at Rocky Boy for nearly three decades, says Standing Rock is off base.

She said there is no B sound in the Cree language.

There is a word "opama", she said.

“But it means thigh, not buttocks,” she said.

“I was surprised he would say that because he is a Cree speaker,” she said.

“As you can tell, I’m a Democrat,” she said.

 

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