Oski Tahkoskewin

Oski Tahkoskewin is an Indigenous-led non-profit corporation, founded in 2017 to partner with First Nations education departments in delivering culturally grounded programming.

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Oski Tahkoskewin’s first programs were land-based education camps. As participant interest in language learning grew, the program expanded to include a basic Cree language web and mobile app in 2020. Built single-handedly, without funding, on a low-code and low-cost stack, the app featured a small text-and-audio vocabulary database, English-to-Cree search, flashcards, and study tools. Rather than continuing to maintain or incrementally expand this early product, the organization started to explore more ambitious approaches to technology-assisted language preservation. That exploration led to the creation of the AI Anima project, an effort to build a more robust, scalable, and community-rooted language technology platform.

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Board of Directors

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Jasmine Spence

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Paulette Hebert

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Marc Woons

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Lisa Donahue

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Community Knowledge Representatives

 

Shirley Robinson

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George Muswaggon

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