We 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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The 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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Nsyilxcen 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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The 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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Qwyqwayaxn and Skukulalq listen to Uncle Thomas tell another story about Tanyslays. This one involves a peculiar taste for onions and fearsome reputation that Tanyslays had.

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The OIB Language House is the centre for Okanagan language learning in the South Okanagan. They host a variety of language learning programs and classes and regularly do cultural trips on the land. Yutelx joins us as a special guest for this podcast where she shares what she has learned in the 5 years she has worked for the Language House and the direction they are heading.

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In today's episode, we listen to an Uncle Thomas story about jealousy and the complications thereof. There are several versions of the Chopaka story, all of which deal with the consequences of jealous lovers and why camas root is not found in the Okanagan or Similkameen valleys. There is some excellent nsyilxcen language used and we do our best to translate some of the more complicated passages and dive into the morality surrounding this classic Okanagan captikwl.

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Have no fear, the second part of the captikwl is right here.

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Skukulalq and Qwyqwayaxn break down a traditional Okanagan captikwl (legend) where crayfish challenges coyote to a race from lake to lake, presumably Okanagan and Skaha Lakes.

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On this episode we examine the meaning of purpose and how so many people drift through life without a clear sense of what it means. We listen to an Uncle Thomas recording where he recounts a lesson from when he was a child about living with a purpose, and we talk about the connection with Indigenous people, a lack of purpose, and substance abuse.

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