Hear the Beatles’ ‘Blackbird’ Sung in the Indigenous Mi’kmaq Language

To raise aware­ness of her native lan­guage, 16-year-old Emma Stevens sang a ver­sion of The Bea­t­les’ 1968 clas­sic “Black­bird” in the Mi’k­maq lan­guage, an East­ern Algo­nquian lan­guage spo­ken by near­ly 11,000 in Cana­da and the Unit­ed States. A mem­ber of the Eska­soni First Nation, the Nova Sco­tia stu­dent sang lyrics that were painstak­ing­ly trans­lat­ed by … Con­tin­ue read­ing Hear the Bea­t­les’ ‘Black­bird’ Sung in the Indige­nous Mi’kmaq Lan­guage