{"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 8: Visiting with language speakers at the Six Nations Language Symposium (Part 2)","html":"","width":"100%","height":180,"duration":3446,"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.  It is Part 2.\nEPISODE DESCRIPTION\nContinuing 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 second year language immersion student, a fluent language teacher at a university, and a mature student returning to school to learn her traditional Cayuga language.\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 word, one sentence and one conversation at a time.\nWHAT WE TALK ABOUT\nConversation One: Immersion student learning with Katsyenhasehton (Tazline Mansell)\n- Inspired by her cousin in the immersion program to apply herself.  She learned self-discipline and commitment to self.\n- The immersion program fostered an environment of caring for one another and encouraging one another\n- Being in the immersion program encouraged her to attend Longhouse and helped her to be in conversation with family members\n- She encourages young people to begin by learning words as a starting point should they want to begin their language journey\n- Katsyenhasehton shares a glimpse of her language skills\n- Language focused excursions to aid in their language journey\n- Her goals are to be in language retention as a teacher\n- She's made a tutorial making a ribbon skirt all in Kanienke:ha\n- Language is meant to bring us together \nConversation Two: ...","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}