Given the precarious state of the Moose Cree dialect, the purpose of this dictionary is to safeguard and present all words for which there is evidence of use in this dialect, whether historical or present. This is a tremendous task given the dialect’s literary history. It requires that all written materials in the dialect be meticulously examined and that copious examples of modern speech be recorded and analyzed. In other words, the dictionary is largely supported by a text corpus.

In addition to the creation and examination of this corpus, the process of building this dictionary relies heavily on consultations with expert speakers. This process is ongoing and helps corroborate words and identify vocabulary specific to certain semantic fields.

Cree words in this dictionary are presented in alphabetic and syllabic orthographies, both standardized along phonological and morphological bases.

Published in 2015, a year after the publication of the first edition, this book is a unidirectional bilingual dictionary of 469 pages containing just over 9,300 Cree to English entries. This edition was published in collaboration with Aanischaaukamikw Cree Cultural Institute and was funded entirely by Moose Cree First Nation through the Amisk-oo-skow Agreement.

Entries in this edition include sense numbering, cross-references such as synonyms and variants, and etymologies for loanwords. Verb conjugation tables were introduced in this edition, which also included an introduction to Cree grammar.

The book was covered in a work of art by renowned Michif artist Christi Belcourt.