kookum

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Cree [Term?]

Noun

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kookum (plural kookums)

  1. grandmother (among the Cree people)
    • 2014, Neal McLeod, Indigenous Poetics in Canada, page 18:
      My Kookum was a storyteller and all the stories she told were told in Cree.