at the Brandon University and at the Kamsack Junior High School (now Kamsack Comprehensive Institute) in 1980, before moving on to teaching at the First Nations University of Canada. Cote would be a member of the FNUniv faculty from 1980 until her retirement in 2010. Cote published her first book, Nahkawewin Saulteaux (Ojibway Dialect of the Plains) in 1984. Throughout her career she has published 20 books regarding Saulteaux language and culture. Her works Nahkawewin and Saulteaux Verb Book primarily concern Saulteaux semantic and morphological structure. Cote has published 16 children's books for her Saulteaux Talking Books series. She has also participated in the translation of four stories for CD-ROMs by Pebble Beach Interactive Fiction Inc. for Saskatchewan Education. A linguist, Cote has presented within several conferences and workshops, including during the 33rd Annual Algonquian Conference on the Semantic and Morphological Structure of Saulteaux Conditional Sentences and Relative Clauses (2001). Personal life Cote's parents aided her in beginning to preserve the Saulteaux language. Cote would eventually mentored her niece, Lynn Cote, to continue her work in preserving the language. Cote strongly believed in the importance of preserving First Nations languages and had recorded 17 elders for the purposes of transcribing and translating as many narrative categories as possible. While attending the Lebret Residential School, Cote would meet her first husband, Ivan Cote, with whom she would have three sons and a daughter. Cote was engaged to Andy Pascal and the couple planned to wed when the COVID-19 pandemic subsided. Cote's death was announced on Facebook on March 31, 2021. She was buried in the Cote First Nation. Bibliography: List of works 1982: Nahkawētā : a Saulteaux language course 1985: Nahkawēwin Saulteaux : Ojibway dialect of the plains 1985: Nihso mahkwak 1985: Saulteaux Verb Book 1987: Conditional Sentences in Cree and Saulteaux 2008: Ānı̄n ēntōtamān kikis̆ēp 2011: Nēnapohs̆ Āhtahsōkēwinan / Nēnapohs̆ Legends 2019: posâkanacîweyiniwak : nitaskînân = The Touchwood Hills People : Our Land 2021: Mācī-Anihšināpēmowin / Beginning Saulteaux Nahkawewin Workbook Saulteaux Syllabics Book Nahkawewin recordings Saulteaux Talking Books series First Edition Saulteaux Dictionary Anihsinape-Apinoci Nakamowinan: Children's Saulteaux Songs and Nursery Rhymes References External links National Centre for Collaboration in Indigenous Education interview with Cote Indigenous Canadian women Canadian indigenous women academics First Nations women First Nations women writers Brandon University alumni University of Regina alumni University of Regina faculty Linguists of Algic languages 1950 births 2021 deaths Saulteaux people Anishinaabe