{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Transistor","provider_url":"https://transistor.fm","author_name":"The Road to Your Name Podcast","title":"Road To Your Name - Season 7, Episode 7: Visiting with Kanienke:ha language speakers at the Six Nations Language Symposium (Part 1)","html":"","width":"100%","height":180,"duration":3649,"description":"Road to Your Name | Special Episode: Live from the Six Nations Language Commission Symposium\nIndigenous Language Day 2025\nThis episode was recorded March 31, 2025.\nEPISODE DESCRIPTION\nIn this special on-location episode, Lisa takes the podcast to the Six Nations Language Commission's Indigenous Language Day symposium, where language keepers, teachers, and program coordinators from across Haudenosaunee territory gathered to mark Language Day and talk about what it takes to keep Kanien'kéha (the Mohawk language) alive and thriving.\nRecorded live in the hallways and gathering spaces of the symposium, this episode features three conversations: a language nest coordinator from Kahnawà:ke who started her program around her own kitchen table in 2005, a program director and instructor at Six Nations' adult immersion school who breaks down the \"root word method\" that's transforming how the language is taught, and a teacher and potter from Akwesasne building a language program rooted in the natural and ceremonial calendar.\nAcross all three conversations, one theme keeps surfacing: language isn't just vocabulary. It's identity, healing, culture, and a way of seeing the world that survived residential schools and is being actively rebuilt, one family and one classroom at a time.\nWHAT WE TALK ABOUT\nConversation One: The Kahnawà:ke Language Nest with Ieronhienhawi (Tatum McComber)\n- How a language nest coordinator and a small group of friends started an immersion program for families with young children in 2005, inspired by the Māori language nest model in New Zealand\n- The early days: cooking, gardening, harvesting, tapping trees, and singing together entirely in the language, with first-language speakers always present to keep the environment accurate\n- Why the original program ran from 2005 to 2007 before dissipating as life circumstances changed\n- Bringing the language nest back in 2014 after a dream pointed the way, and applying for grant funding to make it sustainable\n-...","thumbnail_url":"https://img.transistorcdn.com/EMAPSU_o9vetcBfJJ4OU41woZtyCGFgI7d9nIXpjEOY/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:400/h:400/q:60/mb:500000/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS9iMGM3/MjAxOGE0Njg1ZWVj/MWUxZTFkMzllNmI3/ZWQzZi5qcGc.webp","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_height":300}