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As an Anishinaabe household of 5 (including the dog) join us as we share our experiences raising our children in Anishinaabemowin Immersion as Second Language learners ourselves. Anishinaabemowin is the language of the Anishinaabe - otherwise known as Ojibway. It is a language that has been targeted by genocide on our nations. This is our commitment to helping fight and reclaim OUR SOUND- ENWEYING.
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We are thrilled to finally release our first ever video podcast episode as we host our S2 Episode 10 guests: Teyolihwa:ke (Dominique) & Marsha Ireland who are Turtle Clan from Onyota’á:ka (Oneida Nation of the Thames) as they share their journey with OSL (Oneida Sign Language).
Join us for our first time on YouTube at: https://youtu.be/fTtYGXgz1WQ
Dominique Ireland is an Onyota’á:ka Deaf artist, cultural mediator, and consultant from the Oneida of the Thames Nation and a member of the Turtle Clan. Her Oneida name is Teyolihwa:ke. Deeply committed to her people, language, and culture, Dominique has been actively involved with the youth council of the Association of Iroquois and Allied Indians (AIAI). Trained as a cultural facilitator, she collaborates with Montréal Arts Interculturel (MAI), where she initially served as a consultant supporting accessibility for Deaf communities before beginning an internship in 2024 with the Department of Accessibility and Innovative Practices through the Conseil des arts de Montréal’s CultivART program, under the mentorship of Claudia Parent. Performing under the artist name Hazelique, she has presented work at events such as Sister in Motion, the International Day of the Deaf, the International Cohabiting Symposium of the Observatory of Cultural Mediations, and UQAM’s Rights, Citizenship and Disability Summer School. Her artistic practice in American Sign Language and Oneida Sign Language centers on the cultural significance of sign languages and reflects her lived experience and identity as a Deaf Oneida woman.
Marsha Ireland is a proud Deaf member of the Oneida Nation of the Thames and the Turtle Clan. Her Oneida name is Teyuhuhtakweku. She has dedicated her life to advocacy, education, and the wellbeing of future generations. Marsha is married to Max Ireland, a hearing member of the Bear Clan, and together they have five Deaf Oneida children and fourteen grandchildren, including two great‑granddaughters. She is the creator of Oneida Sign Language (OSL) and has worked tirelessly to revitalize and share the language across Turtle Island. Through presentations, community engagement, and educational work, she supports Deaf First Nations and raises awareness of Deaf Indigenous peoples’ lived experiences. Marsha has been invited to speak with and educate First Nations communities, including offering land acknowledgements and the Oneida Thanksgiving Address in Oneida Sign Language. Recognized by many as an Elder, she considers herself an advocate and educator, working to ensure a stronger, more inclusive future for generations to come.
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Alex FireThunder is the Chair / Director of the Lakota Studies Department at Oglala Lakota College. He resides in Kyle, SD on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation. As an enrolled member of the Oglala Lakota Nation, Alex brings a wealth of experience to his role, holding a BSW in Social Work, MA in Lakota Leadership, and a Lakota Language Certificate from Oglala Lakota College. As a seasoned educator, Alex has taught Lakota to pre-K on up to the college level for the past ten years. A musician and NAMMY award-winning song composer, he founded Hóyeya, a platform for promoting Lakota language content. Alex believes in the transformative power of language in shaping a strong Lakota identity which is reflected in how he and his wife raise their three beautiful children in the language.
Camille Sine-Firethunder is a mother, wife, language learner, former teacher, and content creator for the Lakota/Dakota Language platform HOYEYA. Camille is an enrolled tribal member of the Sisseton Wahpeton Oyate and currently resides in Kyle, South Dakota with her husband Alex and their three children. After being a classroom teacher for seven years, Camille is now a stay-at-home-mom. She has recently become known for her children's show published on YouTube called "Language For Littles with Thunwin Camille". Her show draws inspiration from the YouTube sensation Miss Rachel, but rather than focusing on English speech development, Camille puts her attention to the underserved and underrepresented Lakota / Dakota children and their Lakota/Dakota speech development and acquisition. Her life's mission is to be a good mother and wife and to learn and raise her children in the Lakota and Dakota language.
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Karennenhá:wi (Ierennahá:wi) Goodleaf is a Kanien’kehá:ka from Kahnawà:ke who is a second language kanien’kéha speaker. She graduated from the adult Kanien’kéha immersion program Ratiwennahnírats. She later went on to teach for the next 10 years at a kanien’kéha elementary immersion school and language nest in Ganienkeh. She is a mother of one and because of her strong language foundation she is now raising her daughter as a first language kanien’kéha speaker. Karennenhá:wi is now a holistic wellness practitioner who has studied foraging and medicine making and is also currently enrolled in a 2 year herbal immersion program. She enjoys volunteering for the Native Wellness Institute’s annual youth wellness camp. She continues to support health, wellness and language in the home and community.
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Bagwajinini-Alex Kmett is a citizen of the Red Lake Nation (Eagle clan) and a descendant of the Pillager Band at Leech Lake, by way of Ponemah and Cass Lake, respectively. He is a co-founder of the Endazhi-Nitaawiging Charter School at Red Lake, where he currently serves as a Curriculum Designer, and a co-founder of Ojibwemotaadidaa's Gookonaanig Endaawaad Language Nest at Fond du Lac. He holds a Master of Arts in Indigenous Education from Arizona State University, and has taught Ojibwe language at Fond du Lac Tribal and Community College and University of Minnesota Morris, in addition to Ojibwemotaadidaa Omaa Gidakiiminaang (OOG). As a second language speaker/learner, he and his partner raise their two children to be trilingual Ojibwe/Spanish/English speakers utilizing a unique blend of ML@H and OPOL parenting methods. In addition to his work in language and education, he is an artist, experimental musician, food producer, and advocate for land back.
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Tahohtharátye’ (Joe Brant) sits with the Bear Clan, from Tyendinaga Mohawk Nation Territory. He is an advanced proficiency second-language learner of Kanyen’kéha and has been an elementary, secondary, and post-secondary educator in his community. Tahohtharátye has dedicated much of his adult life to Kanyen’kéha learning and revitalization in his family and community. As L2 speakers, he and his partner Tewahséhtha have created and maintain a Kanyen’kéha speaking home since 2007. They have raised two children as first-language Kanyen’kéha speakers – the first in their community in several generations. In 2024, Tahohtharátye’ completed his Ph.D. in Indigenous Language Revitalization from the University of Victoria in a culminating dissertation titled: Tó: nya’teká:yen tsi entewà:ronke’ - Onkwehonwehnéha documentation for advanced adult Kanyen’kéha learning. In this work, he demonstrates a collaborative practitioner documentation approach to planning, implementing, analyzing, and disseminating first-language documentation designed for proficiency development in andragogy.
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Miigwanaabiikwe Jessica Shonias is caribou clan from Rama First Nation and Atikameksheng Anishnawbek. Her and her husband Beedaban have three boys together whom they speak the language to at home in Rama. She is a cofounder of Eshki-Nishnaabemjig Immersion Academy, as well as a producer and cohost of the Language Podcast. She holds a Master of Arts in Indigenous Governance, a B.Ed. as well as ECE. Jessica has taught both in and out of immersion, to both primary and secondary grades, as well as adult learners of varying levels. She was a successful attendee of Ojibwemotaadidaa Omaa Gidakiiminanng (OOG) immersion academy in Fond du Lac, Minnesota, which informs her practice as well as her experience in immersion settings.
Disclosure: Germany does not have the highest amount of listener downloads. It is currently the third country with the highest amount of listeners, particularly from one city. First and second "countries" with the highest amount of listeners are from Turtle Island. (Canada & the US)
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Join us as we sit with Dr. Michael Migizi Sullivan Sr, an incredible father and second language learner of Ojibwemowin. He's the Faculty Director of Native American Studies at Lac Courte Oreilles Ojibwe College. He earned his PhD in linguistics from the University of Minnesota - Twin Cities.
Migizi has helped both Ozaawaa and I during our language journeys with our time at Ojibwemotaadidaa Omaa Gidakiiminaang immersion academy and beyond. We are honoured that he shares his outlook on Ojibwemowin, how he has taught in various capacities, raised children in Ojibwemowin and inspired many more with his gifts of the language.
Migizi's newest book of recorded and transcribed stories from Larry Amik Smallwood, titled 'Plums or nuts: Ojibwe stories of Anishinaabe humor,' can be purchased here:
https://birchbarkbooks.com/products/plums-or-nuts?_pos=1&_sid=4d03b822a&_ss=r
And the recordings of the stories from the book can be found at the Ojibwe People's Dictionary's webpage: https://ojibwe.lib.umn.edu/
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We are very excited to share this episode with you as we speak with Kahawani, also known as Mary Antone, from the Oneida Nation People of the Standing Stone. Kahawani, another second language learner, speaks with us as she is raising her daughter in the Oneida language. Join us as we share our similar experiences and insight to Kahawani despite our different target languages.
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We welcome Nishinaabemwin Bemwidood - Falcon McLeod-Shabogesic an Anishinaabe from Nipissing First Nation to Enweying. We're excited to share his stories of his second language learning experiences, educational pathways he's paved as an Nishinaabemwin educator to embedding language into the sinews of daily life as a parent passing down his heritage language.
https://www.youtube.com/@falconmcleod-shabogesic790
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Boozhoo!
This is a grass roots podcast about our family of 5 including our rez pup. We are raising our family in an Immersive Anishinaabemowin household. We are anxious to try and share our lives with you again. This time hopefully with more audible content. This episode is updates on where we are now, how English has entered our lives and what we've done to try and combat lifes tribulations while reclaiming our language on our own land - Mshiikenh Mnising (Turtle Island).
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Many people have reached out to ask where they can donate or support revitalization efforts. This link leads to our Link Tree which has a Patreon as well as "Buy me a Coffee" where you can donate to our families cause and initiatives we do to support learning in the home and across our communities. Miigwech
In this final episode of Season 1, of “Enweying - Our Sound” we reflect on our families’ journey since creating the podcast the feedback we have received since creating it and the emotions brought on with this podcast moving across Turtle Island through this “big spiders web.” We share some moments we are grateful for as we created this podcast and how it has helped us for the better moving forward as a family in our Anishinaabemowin Immersion household journey.
In saying this, by episode 6 we feel we finally have the audio down pat BUT in doing so LISTEN AT YOUR OWN WILL because Mshkogaabwid Kwe’s LAUGH will blow your eardrums out/may break speakers. We caution you at: 5:45, 12:30, 18:40, 21:38, 37:40, 50:40 minute marks.
PSA: If you do not wish to listen to us speak Anishinaabemowin, skip to 6 minutes.
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FULL Interview with Kate Adach from CBC. 18 Minutes of this interview was broadcasted on CBC’s Program: Unreserved, as well as through CBC Indigenous. In this 53 min interview solely with Mshkogaabwid Kwe (Emmaline) hear the more in-depth answers Emmaline shares and digs deeper into her and Ozaawaa’s (Monty) backstory as a couple. We speak on normal challenges we face as a family, facing a pandemic as well as raising our children in a Anishinaabemowin-Immersion household. Mshkogaabwid Kwe opens up about moments that make it difficult, being isolated as Second Language learning parents, and how the pandemic has changed dynamics of this journey, and what it is the drives her and her family to keep going. Listen in if you’d like to hear her take on her families’ journey to revitalize the language and preserve it. * I also want to apologize to those I may have offended when I referred to “Moana goes on in Hawaiian” I know I was really referring to Te reo Maori language. It was not an ignorance thing but a slip of the tongue being nervous. I apologize again as I am very aware these languages are not the same. Both languages and their many dialects and sub dialects are so beautiful and unique. I want to acknowledge this. * Follow Enweying on Instagram: @oursound.enweying
This episode we opened up a bit more about our past and our family dynamics. We discuss what it was that drove us to have this life, how our families felt about it, barriers we face connecting with Anishinaabemowin First Speakers, and being noticed within community while speaking. We cover sharing our journeys with our families, how we maintain immersion in an English world, tips and stories, and who has impacted us along the way. A lot of laughs and cries in this episode. Grab a tissue if you’re passionate!
PSA: If you do not wish to listen to us speak Anishinaabemowin, skip to 7 minutes 50 sec.
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In this episode, we talk about why children should learn grammar...kind of. We give our reasons in how and why children and adults need to learn the grammatical aspects of the language. We also discuss why adults need to know the more technical aspects of Anishinaabemowin and how we share our knowledge of 'grammar patterns' with our children.
We talk about the importance of us as learners, reading to our children. We debunk an aspect of the language learning myth that 'children and adults learn (or acquire) language the same way'!
PSA: If you don't want to listen to the Anishinaabemowin dialogue of the podcast, skip to 5 min 10 sec.
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During this episode we touch on times we have struggled trying to stay motivated and encouraged while parenting in an Anishinaabemowin Immersion household. We also speak on times of things that we found were obstacles to get over in our own personal learning journeys as we learned Anishinaabemowin as adults. PSA: If you do not wish to listen to our Anishinaabemowin dialogue skip to 6min 25 sec. Follow us on Instagram @oursound.enweying
In this episode we touch on times that we have laughed while learning, times we have learned a lot and why, and times we felt rewarded in the home teaching our children the language. PSA: If you do not wish to listen to us speaking Anishinaabemowin skip to 13 min
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Boozhoo! Hello!
An introduction to our family. Ozaawaa Giizhigo Ginew & Mshkogaabwid Kwe speak in Anishinaabemowin (Ojibway) and English to explain our families journey as we raise our children in Anishinaabemowin as Second Language Learners. Get to know us as we share times we have spent learning the language we which found enjoyable and fun in this episode! Join us on our journey as we discuss resources, tips, advice, stories, triumphs, dissapointments, realities, laughs and guests as we walk on this road to Anishinaabemowin fluency.
Chi-Miigwech! Thank you so much!
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What is Anishinaabemowin?
The 'Ojibway' language, known as Anishinaabemowin (ah-nish-in-nah-bay-mo-win) is the language of the Anishinaabeg. The original peoples of Turtle Island (otherwise known as North America) The language is currently at risk of being lost due to colonization but with the efforts of elders/speakers, ancestors, spirit and community we hope to revitalize it and give it back to our children. This is our families dedication and story of how we will try and manifest this in our lifetime.