Words and Culture

In this final episode of Innu-aimun, host Melissa Mollen Dupuis speaks with Georges Awaad, a Canadian of Egyptian and Lebanese origins. He is 27 and four years into his language journey of the Innu.

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Yvette and Gaëlle Mollen share their experiences and the evolution of teaching in Innu-aimun. Host Melissa Mollen Dupuis opens up about her own language learning experience and shares a traditional story.

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Slipping between English and French, old friends Lison Mestokosho and Melissa Mollen Dupuis talk about teaching Innu-aimun to students with different needs. Melissa wonders what it’s like to teach your own children versus teaching others’ children in a classroom.

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Land guardian Maxime Lalo joins Melissa to talk about the history of the land of the Innu and the work he does with Elders and community members to collect and document their stories of the land.

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Melissa Mollen Dupuis examines the role mothers play when passing down our languages and culture. She speaks with her mom, Marie-Hélène and aunt Paquerette Mollen. 

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In this first episode of the Innu language, host Melissa Mollen Dupuis speaks with her nine-year-old son, Elias, about Innu-aimun. He challenges her to translate scientific words. 

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Leela is joined by her cousins to talk about their language journeys, what inspires them to keep speaking Dene Kede, and how they are passing it along to the next generation – their children. 

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Host Leela Gilday speaks with Chief Fred Sangris about the history and evolution of the Dene – from living in the bush, to dividing the land, and reclaiming traditional names while removing colonial ones.

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Leela Gilday visits with her online language teachers - Marie Speakman and Cathy Modeste-Short. They share stories of their childhood, how they retained their language growing up on the land, and how they are using technology to share it with the next generations. 

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Dene and northern legend Johnny Landry joins Leela Gilday to talk about the importance of singing in the language, teaching the youth Dene language, and why his music is reflective of Dene laws. 

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