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John then took it upon himself to create an online petition urging Google to make Cree available on its translation app. A user-experience designer by trade, the publisher said he wants to help preserve the Indigenous language. I m not an activist, I m just a . designer, said John. Making comics has always been my passion (but) I want my comic to be especially helpful to Indigenous people, I want to help First Nations peoples.
The preamble to John s petition points out that Maori, the language of Aboriginal people in New Zealand, is available on Google Translate. New Zealand government data suggests there are approximately 50,000 Maori speakers there, but data from Statistics Canada s 2016 census shows there were more than 96,000 Cree speakers in Canada when information was gathered.
Joseph John wants the titular hero of his comic book "Citizen Canada" to speak English, French and Cree. When he hopped online to translate portions of dialogue, he discovered a problem: Google Translate doesn't speak Cree. He'd like that to change.
Montreal-based publisher Joseph John wanted his comic book “Citizen Canada” to reflect the country s diverse history by having the titular hero speak English, French and Cree.