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- The Legend of ucxn (feat. xwnamxwnam)Levi Bent, Trenton Manossa-Gabriel and Brandi Baptiste listen to a recording by elder Thomas Pierre where he talks about the lizard that follows you, climbs inside your hindquarters and eats you from the inside. The trio discusses the potential metaphor behind this story.
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23 min - MushroomsIn this episode we talk all about mushrooms. We talk about finding and picking, cooking and eating and how they make such good medicine. We talk about different types and where they can be found and tell stories about mushroom picking and our personal experiences. Qwyqwayaxn also shares as much cultural information as he knows about them including a few vocabulary words.
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50 min - Learning Language and CultureOn this episode, we open up about how we've approached learning about Okanagan language and culture from each of our perspectives and the challenges we have faced teaching and supporting it. We would like to continue this dialogue in the interest of keeping the language and culture alive and finding out how to continue to grow it. If anyone has any information to share or would like to join us in a podcast about this important topic send us an email at [email protected].
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54 min - The Nkmip Day School (feat. Sheri "sqaxexinak" Stelkia)On this episode, qwyqwayaxn welcomes sqaxexinak to the show to talk about Anthony Walsh and the Nkmip Day School. While other day and residential schools focused on the systematic removal of Indigenous language and culture, the Nkmip Day School celebrated it and celebrated the artistic talents of the students, leaving a fantastic legacy that still stands to this day.
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23 min - Heroes feat. SeniwlmLevi and Jesse welcome seniwlm to the podcast where we begin by talking about our heroes and digress into a variety of personal and nsyilxcen-related topics.
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40 min - Special Guests: Shane and Shayla (Outma Sqilxw Cultural Team)Levi talks with Shayla and Shayne from the Outma Sqilxw Language and Culture team about a wide range of subjects including the shared challenges they face of education in nsyilxcen.
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33 min - Halloween SpecialWe listen to and translate a recording about Halloween by samtica (Sarah Peterson). She tells us about the tradition of "mcam km lkanti" and how you might get your car hit by an aoosa.
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18 min - Special Guest: Kxansulaxw HallThe Kwu Sneqsilxw team welcomes Kxnwulaxw to our studio to talk about singing, drumming, sqilxw history, stories and life. Kxansulaxw Hall is a proud sqilxw singer and drummer who has created original songs and gifted them to Senpaqcin School. He sings and drums all around the nation.
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43 min - Skateboarding Nsyilxcen VocabularyNsyilxcen is a very old language and skateboarding is a very new sport. Because of this there is no skateboarding vocabulary in nsyilxcen (at least none that we know of). We do our best to give nsyilxcen language to skateboarding terms. If you know of any skateboarding nsyilxcen vocabulary please drop us a line at [email protected] and we will add it to a future podcast. Limlemt!
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11 min - SkateboardingThe Kwu Sneqsilxw team dives into the sport of skateboarding and how it shaped each one of us from our youths to the present day. We look at skaters we were influenced by, the importance of skateboarding video games, and the soundtracks that gave life to them.
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About kwu sneqsilxw
From the publisher's feed
The kwu sneqsilxw podcast began on a cold November day in 2022, when nqilxcen language teacher Qwyqwayaxn Bent suggested we listen to an elder recording he made with his Uncle Thomas. Thomas told…
the story of how when he and his siblings were young they wanted to be cowboys but they didn't have any horses, so they had to break their own wild horses by a process known as "fore footing." The rest of the language team was so moved by this story that we decided to share it. Now this elder story and many other stories and ancient teachings from Okanagan elders are available to everyone through this very podcast. It's okay if you don't know the Okanagan language, Qwyqwayaxn's co-worker Skukulalq is also along for the ride. Skukulalq is an intermediate language learner who is here to learn and share his language journey as well. Both uncles are happy to help interpret these elder recordings and keep the Okanagan language alive. We're happy that you're hear to listen as well. Please enjoy and feel free to contact us at [email protected].
(kwu sneqsilxw is an Okanagan phrase meaning "We are family")
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