Robert Maytwayashing is Anishinaabe, raised in his people on the Lake Manitoba First Nation in Manitoba's Interlake Region. Robert is also a pipe carrier and sweat lodge keeper.
Robert Tells the story of how a boy caught the sun. ☀️
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Mary Maytwayashing, also known as Strong Standing Golden Eagle , is from the Lake Manitoba First Nation, also known as Dog Creek. A proud mother of three and grandmother to eleven , she is fluent in Anishinaabemowin, a language that is both spiritual and sacred to her people .✨

Mary believes that modern life has distanced people from the land, and she emphasizes the importance of reconnecting with it. 🌿

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Amplifying voices is in partnership with First Peoples Radio and is funded through the Community Radio Fund of Canada / Fonds canadien de la radio communautaire.

Mary Maytwayashing, Strong Standing Golden Eagle, is from Lake Manitoba First Nations, also known as Dog Creek. She is a mother of three and grandmother to eleven. She is fluent in her language of Anishinaabemowin, which is spiritual and sacred to her people.

Mary shares about the time of harvest and the importance of taking care of the earth.

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Martha Peet was born in an igloo in Taloyoak, where only four other families lived. She is a freelance interpreter, translator, and author of the Inuktitut Pocket Book. 📖 She values her language incredibly, and she shares how she has kept Inuktitut alive in her life. ✨

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Amplifying voices is in partnership with First Peoples Radio and is funded through the Community Radio Fund of Canada / Fonds canadien de la radio communautaire.

Martha Peet was born in an igloo in Taloyoak, where only four other families lived. She is a ✍️ freelance interpreter, translator, and author of the Inuktitut Pocket Book. Preserving Indigenous languages hasn't always been a priority, but Elder Peet says significant efforts are being made in Nunavut to keep Inuktitut alive. 🗣️✨Hear from other Indigenous speakers on Amplifying Voices - https://u-channel.ca/amplifying-voices/Amplifying voices is in partnership with First Peoples Radio and is funded through the Community Radio Fund of Canada / Fonds canadien de la radio communautaire.

Martha Peet was born in an igloo in Taloyoak, where only four other families lived. She is a freelance interpreter, translator, and author of the Inuktitut Pocket Book.

Martha's parents were closely tied to the land, which informed much of her early years and life.

Isabel Scribe is a member of the Pimicikamak Cree Nation, also known as Cross Lake in Northern Manitoba. She is a fluent speaker of the Swampy Cree language 🗣️✨. Isabel is passionate about her culture and language 📖 and is working towards becoming a language teacher. 🌿Hear from other Indigenous speakers on Amplifying Voices - https://u-channel.ca/amplifying-voices/Amplifying voices is in partnership with First Peoples Radio and is funded through the Community Radio Fund of Canada / Fonds canadien de la radio communautaire.

Isabel Scribe is a member of the Pimicikamak Cree Nation, also known as Cross Lake in Northern Manitoba. Isabel is a fluent speaker of the Swampy Cree language. Residential school was devastating for many Indigenous communities, and through it, almost snuffed out numerous languages. Elder Scribe shares the efforts to bring them back.

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Amplifying voices is in partnership with First Peoples Radio and is funded through the Community Radio Fund of Canada / Fonds canadien de la radio communautaire.

Isabel Scribe is a member of the Pimicikamak Cree Nation, also known as Cross Lake in Northern Manitoba. Isabel is a fluent speaker of the Swampy Cree language. She speaks on the challenges of engaging youth with learning Cree and ways to encourage them to seek out the knowledge.Hear from other Indigenous speakers on Amplifying Voices - https://u-channel.ca/amplifying-voices/Amplifying voices is in partnership with First Peoples Radio and is funded through the Community Radio Fund of Canada / Fonds canadien de la radio communautaire.

Grace Schedler and Joyce Noonin are knowledge keepers. For the past twenty years, they have worked to incorporate sacred eagle feathers into Manitoba's court system.🪶 This is a continuation of their story.Listen to the first half of their story - https://open.spotify.com/episode/2NH0pKvaDVMOxnz6oVnkaF?si=Iw_ne4vpS46XT-gLWL8ROgHear from other Indigenous speakers on Amplifying Voices - https://u-channel.ca/amplifying-voices/Amplifying voices is in partnership with First Peoples Radio and is funded through the Community Radio Fund of Canada / Fonds canadien de la radio communautaire.