| Summary: | The Chisasibi Child Language Acquisition Study (CCLAS) is a longitudinalnaturalistic first language (LI) acquisition study of Northern EastCree-speaking children located in the community of Chisasibi, Quebec(on the east coast of James Bay).1 The study focusses on production only.Our aim in this paper is to provide an overview of the progress we have made in this study, which has n o w entered its third year, and to provide some senseof the challenges encountered and the solutions w e came up with inresponse. W e describe the procedures developed, in many cases throughtrial and error, in order to create an efficient way to conduct a longitudinalacquisition study, where researchers are not actually on site for much ofthe time. Our aim in this paper is to provide a "how-to" guide for otherresearchers or communities wishing to undertake comparable research.
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