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Enweying - Our Sound PodcastS2E9: Alex & Camille(Sine) FirethunderSend us a textAlex 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 Hóy...2025-06-121h 53
Enweying - Our Sound PodcastS2E8: Karennenhá:wi GoodleafSend us a textKarennenhá: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...2025-05-221h 22
Enweying - Our Sound PodcastS2E7: Bagwajinini - Alex KmettSend us a textBagwajinini-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...2025-04-101h 42
Enweying - Our Sound PodcastS2E6: Tahohtharátye -Joe BrantSend us a textTahohtharátye’ (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 generati...2025-02-131h 36
Enweying - Our Sound PodcastS2E5: Miigwanaabiik - Jessica ShoniasSend us a textMiigwanaabiikwe 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...2024-12-131h 44
Enweying - Our Sound PodcastS2E4: Migizi - Dr. Michael Migizi Sullivan Sr.Send us a textJoin us as we sit with Dr. Michael Migizi Sullivan Sr, an incredible father and second language learner, Native American Studies Director Ph.D of Philosophy - Linguistics - University of Minnesota. Migizi being someone who has helped both Ozaawaa and I during our language journeys, we are honoured for him to take the time to share his outlook on Ojibwemowin and how he has taught, raised children and inspired many more with his gifts of the language. linktr.ee/enweying.oursoundMany people have reached out t...2024-07-041h 15
Enweying - Our Sound PodcastS2E3: Kahawani - Mary AntoneSend us a textWe 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.linktr.ee/enweying.oursoundMany people have reached out to ask where they can donate or support revitalization efforts. This link...2024-06-1052 min
Enweying - Our Sound PodcastS2E2: Nishinaabemwin Bemwidood - Falcon McLeod-ShabogesicSend us a textWe 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-shabogesic790linktr.ee/enweying.oursoundMany people have reached out to ask where they can donate o...2024-05-181h 23
Enweying - Our Sound PodcastS2E1: Updates- We're back!Send us a textThis episodes topic mostly cover what we’ve been up to since the last seasons releases. We experienced a global pandemic which changed many things in our day to day life. Our children are older and the family has grown together through the natural changes of life as we navigated the Covid era. This episode covers updates with the transitions of life and how Mshkogaabwid overcame a period of time where speaking was too painful, and the way she found her way back to trying to only speaking Anishinaabemowin in the home as we...2023-08-301h 19
MSU Press PodcastBkejwanong Dbaajmowinan / Stories of Where the Waters DivideBkejwanong means “where the waters part,” but the waters of St. Clair River are not a point of separation. The same waters that sustain life on and around Bkejwanong—formerly known as Walpole Island, Ontario—flow down into Chippewas of the Thames, the community to which author Monty McGahey II belongs. While there are no living fluent speakers of Anishinaabemowin in this community, McGahey has fostered relationships with fluent speakers from nearby Bkejwanong. Bkejwanong Dbaajmowinan is a collection of stories from these elders, who understand the vital importance of passing on the language to future generations in order to preserve...2022-07-1836 min
Enweying - Our Sound PodcastS1E6: Shkwaaj - The Last OneSend us a textIn 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 B...2021-05-2857 min
Enweying - Our Sound PodcastS1 Bonus Track : Full CBC InterviewSend us a textFULL 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...2021-05-1953 min
Enweying - Our Sound PodcastS1E5: Maintaining the Language Around Those Who Don't SpeakSend us a textThis 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!PS...2021-05-0152 min
Enweying - Our Sound PodcastS1E4: Children Should Learn Grammar!Send us a textIn 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 w...2021-04-2341 min
Enweying - Our Sound PodcastS1E3: Moments We Experienced Unexpected ChallengesSend us a textDuring 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.enweyinglinktr.ee/enweying.oursoundMany people have reached out to ask where they can donate or support revitalization efforts...2021-04-2049 min
Enweying - Our Sound PodcastS1E2: Good Times Learning the LanguageSend us a textIn 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 minFollow us on Instagram @oursound.enweyinglinktr.ee/enweying.oursoundMany 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 a...2021-04-1052 min
Enweying - Our Sound PodcastS1E1: Boozhoo! Welcome! Introduction to us!Send us a textBoozhoo! 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!2021-04-1045 min