Dr. Beverly Jacobs - University of Windsor bio

Dana Tiger's websiteLoren Waters website

Nęyękwawęta'θkwáhshek - Tuscarora Language ProgramOnkwawénna Kentsyóhkwa - Six Nations Kanyen'ké:ha language program that helped Tuscarora Nation

Here's the FB page for Skaronhyasekò:wa - The Mohawk immersion school where Otsistohkwí:yo works with early years students and where Tehahenteh taught when the school was being built. Tekarahkwarásare = The Eclipse  (the faces that lay over each other)Kayanere'kó:wa - The Great Law (the great space between steps)

Our Aunties Emergent series returns as Haudenosaunee filmmaker and host Paige Bethman visits with Cherokee filmmaker Loren Waters. The two discuss the joys and challenges of creating movies that honour Indigenous communities.

Art Gallery of Hamilton - 500 Year ItchShelley Niro's Website

A special Eclipse 2024 episode co-hosted with Rematriation and their Rekindling the Fire of Our Sisterhood gathering: a group of Onkwehónwe women who have been meeting for the past seven years in anticipation of this historic day for the Confederacy of Six Nations.

AUNTIE: Wa’tkwanonhweráton Sewakwékon. On April 8th, 2024 the path of totality of the solar eclipse will fall over our Haudenosaunee homelands surrounding Lake Ontario. It’s an historic event that we’ve been anticipating for years as we remember a similar eclipse that signaled the beginnings our Confederacy generations ago. Today we’re visiting with a key carrier of Haudenosaunee astronomy, Samantha Doxtator, who is Wolf Clan of Oneida Nation, to discuss the eclipse and so much more. Samantha’s sky teachings were rendered through the great loss of her sister Sasha to cancer in 2021 -- and Samantha’s own liminal journey when she fell seriously ill soon after her sister passed. When she recovered - Samantha picked up the astronomy work that Sasha began in university – and now she is sharing powerful insight - in places like Hayden Planetarium in New York City, with NASA in Niagara Falls at the time of the eclipse, and in engagements all across our confederacy. SAMANTHA: Our people we’ve always been scientists. We’ve always been astronomers. We’re 80 percent stardust and we’re just souls… made of flames. AUNTIE: In the wake of our historic eclipse – around a thousand years back – the warring nations that became our confederacy buried weapons and chose great peace with each other. Samantha says the April 8th eclipse is significant because she believes the Haudenosaunee will choose again to bury the weapons of oppression they’ve experienced through both colonization and lateral violence. SAMANTHA: So on the next solar eclipse that is over our homelands in 120 years when our great grandkids say I wonder what my great, great grandparents did in 2024 – they will have actual concrete historic documents that will say “In 2024, the Haudenosaunee buried their oppression. And they did it for all people.” AUNTIE: I’m Kahstoserakwathe and we are Yetinistéhnha ne tekaronyakánare. The Aunties Dandelion and we’re sharing visits with powerful Indigenous changemakers focused on land, language, and connections with each other. Our podcast is possible through the support of Canada’s Indigenous Screen Office teyonkhiwihstakénha – wa’tkwenonhweráton. We can continue to bring you this powerful content when you like, share, give us feedback, and take the time to listen to your Aunties.

AUNTIE: WA’TKWANONHWER´ATON’ SEWAKWÉKON. YOU KNOW, IT’S EASY TO ROMANTICIZE AN INDIGENOUS LANGUAGE JOURNEY – YOU ARE GETTING BACK TO YOUR ORIGINAL INSTRUCTIONS, YOUR BRAIN IS REWIRED. IT IS A REMARKABLE THING. TODAY WE VISIT WITH TAIAWENTÓN:TI’ CHELSEA SUNDAY - KANYEN’KEHÀ:KA LANGUAGE CARRIER FROM AKWESASNE MOHAWK TERRITORY. AND I LOVE THIS VISIT BECAUSE TAIAWENTÓN:TI’ KEEPS IT REAL -- ABOUT THE CHALLENGES SURROUNDING BEING A MOM, BEING PRESENT IN COMMUNITY – ALL WHILE OVERCOMING THE ROADBLOCKS TO SPEAK WHAT IS TRULY ONE OF THE MOST DIFFICULT LANGUAGES ON THE PLANET. TO START, TAIAWENTÓN:TI’ SPENT TWO YEARS TRAVELING BACK AND FORTH TO LANGUAGE IMMERSION SCHOOL IN KAHNAWAKE MOHAWK TERRITORY - WHICH IS ALMOST TWO HOURS DRIVING ONE WAY - AND MANY BRIDGES AND BORDERS FROM HOME. TAIAWENTÓN:TI’: So daily it is like – what time is the bridge closing? ‘Cause, if it is closing, there is another route we can take. So knowing those back roads and knowing where the gas stations were and where the Tim Horton’s were and make our way up to Kahnawake. And even when you get to Kahnawake sometimes they block their roads out there ‘cause of the through traffic so like “K! The roads are blocked! Let’s find another route in.” so… AUNTIE: TAIAWENTÓN:TI’ AND HER FRIENDS ARE EXPERTS AT FINDING ANOTHER ROUTE IN – AND HAVE FORMED A GROUP CALLED “YONKWARONHKA’ONHATYE” WHICH TRANSLATES TO “WE ARE MAKING OURSELVES FLUENT”. THEY’RE LEARNING AND TEACHING KANYEN’KEHA BY ENGAGING MYRIAD ASPECTS OF OUR CULTURE AND DAILY LIFE – NOT JUST THE HIGHEST BAR OF PROFICIENCY – WHICH IS A COMMON THING TO DO. TAIAWENTÓN:TI’: I am reclaiming my language. I am reclaiming my land. I am reclaiming my position as a mom. I’m reclaiming my voice as a woman. I am reclaiming all of those things. AUNTIE: WE’LL ALSO DISCUSS OUR HISTORIC INSPIRATION – JIGONHSASE – WHO WAS A WOMAN RESPONSIBLE FOR CO-FOUNDING OUR CONFEDERACY AND WHOSE INFLUENCE IS HONOURED IN THE CONTEXT OF FULL SOLAR ECLIPSE ON APRIL 8TH 2024. I’m Kahstoserakwathe and we are Yéthi Nihsténha ne Tekarónyakénare. The Aunties Dandelion. We’re focused on revitalizing our communities through stories of land, language, and relationships. And we want to say Nyá:wenkò:wa – or big thanks – to Canada’s Indigenous Screen Office – teyonhkiwihstekénha – for making this podcast possible through their New Media fund. When you share this episode with your friends, follow us on your favorite podcast channel and give us a review – we are able to continue to share the. As always, we’re happy you are here to listen to your Aunties.

Nikaronhyá'a Dawn Martin's IGSilo City: Why Here, Why Now with Jodi Lynn Maracle

Bear Fox website

Laura Couchie is Anishinaabe (Ojibwe), Two Spirit from Nipissing First Nation. She's a multidisciplinary artist and Indigenous language revitalizationist living in Dish With One Spoon territory. Her artistic practice has spanned several outlets over her lifetime including; performance (acting, comedy/improv, dance), music and beadwork. Laura has published op-ed pieces tackling issues such as cultural appropriation and "pretendianism". Her book "No Rainbow" was published in 2018, featuring sensual poetry and prose about love, longing and identity that spans earthly, spirit and human form. In 2022 and 2023, Laura had the honour of serving as a Final Juror for The City of Hamilton Arts Awards. Laura worked for many years in the urban Indigenous community and is a passionate advocate and public educator. Laura is in 3rd year of the Bachelor of Arts in Onkwehonwe Language at Six Nations Polytechnic.

AUNTIE: Wa’tkwanonhweráton. Greetings, love, and respect from me to all of you. On this edition of The Aunties Dandelion we’re visiting with Dr. Kahente Horn-Miller, a formidable Bear Clan educator from our Kanyenkehà:ka territory of Kahnawake. Kahente’s name means she walks ahead - and she’s the first Indigenous woman to receive a 3M National Teaching Fellowship – Canada’s most prestigious recognition in educational leadership and teaching at the post-secondary level. It’s actually Kahente’s criticism of existing education systems that led to her win the 2023 3M prize. In order to fully engage her students at Carleton University, she’s introduced Rotinonhsyón:ni teachings like consensus-based decision making and live performance of our traditional stories into her classrooms. KAHENTE: Beyond the skill of writing, beyond the skill of citing properly doing research, I think that one of the main skills our students need to learn coming out of institutions is how to talk to each other. Indigenous and non-Indigenous. You know why? Because of climate change. We are facing an uncertain future, right? And Indigenous folks and Indigenous communities – we have a lot of the answers. AUNTIE: Kahente’s entire family makes it their business to walk ahead. Her mom, model and activist Kahentinetha Horn and her sisters were deeply involved in the 1990 Kanasatáke Resistance – also known as the Oka Crisis - and her sisters are Olympian Waneek Horn-Miller, actress Kahnietiio Horn, and Dr. Ojistoh Horn, a medical practitioner in Akwesasne. This familial, matriarchal power - along with the family’s grounding in language and longhouse led Kahente to focus on her own community in her scholarship - which most academics shy away from. KAHENTE: Everything I did I wrote about my own people. So this was something that I learned how to do on my own in order to get through that system. AUNTIE: I’m Kahstoserakwathe and we are Yéthi Nihsténha ne Tekarónyakénare. The Aunties Dandelion. We’re focused on revitalizing our communities through stories of land, language, and relationships. And we want to say Nyá:wenkò:wa – or big thanks – to Canada’s Indigenous Screen Office – teyonhkiwihstekénha – for making this podcast possible through their New Media fund. It helps us a LOT if you share this episode with your friends, follow us on your favorite podcast channel and give us a review. As always, we’re happy you are here to listen to your Aunties.

Host OtsistohkwÍ:yo or Melissa Elliott is Kanyen’kehá:ka (Mohawk) from Six Nations of the Grand River Territory. She is a mother, auntie, teacher and second language Kanyen’keha/mohawk speaker, storyteller and artist. She is currently working in efforts to decolonize education and language revitalization - working in her 7th year as the Ken Nikanenhá:sas (Little Seeds) Kindergarten Teacher and Kanen’shón:’a (Many types of seeds) Early Years Faculty Co-Chair at Skaronhyase’kó:wa Everlasting Tree School. Otsistohkwiyo is a trained Waldorf Early years teacher and New Adult Educator (NAE) with over 8 years of experience teaching young children and families through traditional Haudenosaunee and Waldorf pedagogical approaches. In her spare time, Otsisohkwi:yo offers training and mentoring on storytelling and utilizing the Waldorf pedagogy to create new forms of holistic, earth based, traditional Onkwehonwe (Indigenous) education. She sits on the Onkwawenna Kentyohkwa Board of Directors and on the Waldorf Early Childhood Association of North America (WECAN) Inclusion, Diversity, Equity and Access (IDEA) Committee. She is passionate about Kanyen’kéha (Mohawk language), grassroots community building, traditional storytelling, puppetry, parenting, holistic healing, and land-based practices. For more information you can contact Otsistohkwí:yo at [email protected]'kerá:ton, Dr. Jeremy D. Green, is Kanien'kehá:ka (Mohawk), wolf clan and from the Tyendinaga Mohawk Territory. As both a scholar and Ontario Certified Teacher (OCT) of Indigenous language learning and acquisition in adult and youth learners over the past 25 years, Dr. Green’s transformative research and teaching is at the forefront of efforts to ensure that Canadian Indigenous languages and traditional cultures not only survive but thrive.Tehota'kerá:tons completed research to date has focused on diverse localized language acquisition and status planning for indigenous language proficiency development for Rotinonhsión:ni (Six Nations) and other indigenous nations and communities. Tehota'kerá:ton also provides training and information to support these localized indigenous language acquisition planning efforts to create new speakers of indigenous languages focusing primarily on strategic planning for teaching, learning, assessment, evaluation, language use and conversational and ceremonial language and dynamic cultural practices.  

Follow Katsitsionni on InstagramCheck out her website: Two Row ProductionsWatch her Without a Whisper movie

Indigenous Design and Planning Institute

Contact Gerd's publisher to find her book in English: [email protected] is the website for Gerd's book: https://samiskbibliotektjeneste.tromsfylke.no/2019/10/23/gerd-mikalsen-fathers-new-mother-tongue/

AUNTIE: Wa’tkwanonhweráton Sewakwékon. On this edition of The Aunties Dandelion we visit with Danis Goulet – a Cree-Metis, award-winning director and screenwriter who is best known for her 2021 film Night Raiders which is set in a dystopian future. The widely popular movie had the highest budget of any Indigenous-led Canadian film and stars Elle-Máijá Tailfeathers as a mother who joins a resistance movement to save her daughter. In Night Raiders – as in all of her films – Danis focuses on how Indigenous worldview can bring new insight and practice to an industry largely devoid of human care and community. DANIS: The film industry was built to exploit and so if you want to work in the film industry. So if you want to go into the film industry how do we do this in a way that is driven by values and then obviously in Indigenous production you’d be looking at what are your values that come from your community or your specific culture that can inform the film process.  AUNTIE: Danis spent years advocating for Indigenous creators in the film industry and co-authored a 2013 report for Telefilm with Kerry Swanson that helped lay the ground work for funding, offices and initiatives that now support Native filmmakers – including The Aunties Dandelion – Nya:wen. Danis is a passionate visual storyteller who creates strong matriarchal characters and weaves her own Cree language into her productions as a spiritual guide. DANIS: It is good for the spirit and any time there is a chance to put it on screen its like those are my favourite things to shoot to hear it. To commit it to screen where you know it is going to live on through this medium.  AUNTIE: I’m Kahstoserakwathe and we are Yéthi Nihsténha ne Tekarónyakénare. The Aunties Dandelion. We’re focused on revitalizing our communities through stories of land, language, and relationships. And we want to say Nyá:wenkò:wa – or big thanks – to Canada’s Indigenous Screen Office – teyonhkiwihstekénha – for making this podcast possible through their New Media fund.  We make space here for real conversations to unfold like when we visit in our communities. So take a breath, make some tea –  and listen to your Aunties. And when you are done – please follow us, provide some feedback, and share these visits with others. It helps us continue these visits together.    

Everything Cornhusk Facebook PageArticle: Exploring the Ethical Standards for the Teaching Profession through Rotinonhsyón:ni Art.

Dr. Chief's Indigenous Resilience Center - “The Indigenous Resilience Center is the University of Arizona’s commitment to giving back to local tribes who have stewarded this land for millennia. Tribes have endured and sacrificed so much in terms of land loss and social and environmental impacts, much at the hand of the United States. Universities have benefited from this through their physical infrastructure and have a responsibility to be a bridge — to ethically address the challenges those communities face in ways that build trust and transparency.” - Dr. Karletta ChiefNative FEWS Alliance (Food, Water, Energy Systems) - "The dual vision of the Native FEWS Alliance (the Alliance) is to build a highly skilled Native American (NA) STEM workforce at the nexus of Food, Energy and Water and to co-innovate and deploy Indigenous place-based FEWS education and community partnerships."Dr. Karletta Chief Bio

AUNTIE: Wa’tkwanonhweráton Sewakwé:kon – on this episode of The Aunties Dandelion we visit with Lori Campbell a formidable justice warrior, Intergenerational residential school survivor, Indigiqueer Auntie… she’s scholar and and recent contender on the reality show Canada’s Ultimate Challenge. Lori is a member of Montreal Lake First Nation Treaty 6 Territory and spent decades on a quest to piece her family back together after she and her siblings were taken from her mom by Canada’s government. It’s estimated 20 thousand Indigenous children suffered the same fate as the Campbells in what’s known as Canada’s Sixties Scoop. Lori walks us through the details of her grueling journey which eventually let the assurance she encountered when she finally met her birth family. LORI: All those times that I was sitting wondering if anybody thought of me. You know I would say to anybody out there who has been separated from their family never doubt that our people don’t think of us. That they are not longing for us and missing us and loving us and wanting the best for us. AUNTIE: Lori takes her Auntie role seriously and she competed in Canada’s Ultimate Challenge in order to reveal a more complete narrative of Indigenous people than the media typicall shows us. LORI: People weren’t just seeing me but they were seeing… our people and the strength that we bring right? Not our victimhood. But our strength. AUNTIE: Despite suffering a devastating injury – Lori made us all proud and amazed with her determination. So make sure you keep listening. We are Yéthi Nihsténha ne Tekarónyakénare. The Aunties Dandelion. We’re focused on revitalizing our communities through stories of land, language, and relationships. And we want to say Nyá:wenkò:wa – or big thanks – to Canada’s Indigenous Screen Office – teyonhkiwihstekénha – for making this podcast possible through their New Media fund. We make space here for real conversations to unfold like we’re visiting in our communities. So take a breath, make some tea – and listen to your Aunties. And when you are done – please follow us, provide some feedback, and share these visits with others. It helps us continue these visits together.

Here is Chandra Maracle's Ted Talk on renaming post-partum depressionKanikonnríyo - The good mind Kahkwa'ónwe - Original FoodSkaronhyasekò:wa - The Everlasting Tree School on Six Nations of the Grand River Rotinonhsyón:ni Territory

Onkwawenna Kentyohkwa adult Kanyen'kéha language immersion websiteBack on the Rez - 1997 book written by Brian Maracle Crazy Water: Native Voices on Addiction and Recovery - 1994 book written by Brian MaracleThe Canadian Encyclopedia entry on Owennatekha Brian Maracle The Canadian Encyclopedia entry on Kanyen'kéha (Mohawk) language written by Tehota'kará:ton Jeremy Green 

AUNTIE: Wa’tkwanonhweráton Sewakwékon. On this edition of The Aunties Dandelion we visit with Emergent Auntie Nikaronhyá’a Dawn Martin who is Kanyen’kehà:ka (or Mohawk) from Six Nations of the Grand River Rotinonhsón:ni Territory and who recently won the title of Miss Six Nations. Nikaronhyá’a is a two-spirit culture and language carrier, a teacher, and a farmer who honors the foundation of the feminine. NIKARONHYA’A: The way I translate it is… that’s my power… that is my power. My mother is my power, my mother is my strength – that is where I get – all the will to live comes from her and that could be Mother Earth or my birth mother, right? AUNTIE: During our visit we discuss Nikaronhya’a’s relationship with the beauty and trauma of her community and family and how the power of our Mohawk language - through her father’s influence - has become her support and guide. NIKARONHYA’A: He said it’s about the voices of your ancestors. It’s not even about a word. And that’s what he would talk about is vibration and energy. That that word don’t live on the paper. That word don’t live in the text book. That word only lives with us in our being and our energy and our voice and our breath to make it come into existence. AUNTIE: We are Yethi Nihsténha ne Tekaronyakánere – the Aunties Dandelion. We’re a media collective focused on revitalizing our communities through stories of land, language, and relationships. We are thrilled today to say “nyá:wen” which means “thank you” in Mohawk to the our friends at the Indigenous Screen Office of Canada onkak teyonhkiwihstekénha who are funding our podcast for the coming year. So make some tea, get comfortable and take some time to… listen to your Aunties.

Jeremy Dutcher and world renowned cellist Yo-Yo Ma collaborate on the Mi'kmaw Honor SongMore background on Jeremy Dutcher from the Hamilton PhilharmonicJeremy Dutcher and his mother, Lisa Perley-Dutcher, talk about collaborating on a series of fundraising concerts across the country to support the first Wolastoqey immersion school

Jeremy Dutcher's WebsiteJeremy's collaboration with Yo-Yo Ma

On this edition of The Aunties Dandelion we visit with language keepers, scholars and horsewomen Katygene and Kayla Jackson, - Diné sisters from Round Rock, AZ. We talk about balancing skills and passions in Indigenous traditional and Western worlds. And at the end - they SING!

Rematriation MagazineRuth Bader Ginsburg, the Doctrine of Discovery and the Oneida CaseCenter for Art, Humor and Soul 

LeAndra's Not Invisible podcast.Red House Series website  

Click here for Remaining Native websiteShe Carries Her House Instagram Paige featured on Indian Country TodayNew York Times article about Ku Stevens

Terry Jones' website - Torn Jersey MediaHaudenosaunee Micro-Short Film Festival - Micro Mania Film FestivalArticle about Terry giving commencement speech at Syracuse University"Seneca Wolf Clan filmmaker Terry Jones, a Haudenosaunee Promise Scholar, Udall Scholar and Benjamin A. Gilman International Scholarship recipient was the Syracuse graduation commencement speaker Friday at the Syracuse University College of Visual and Performing Arts (VPA).In addition to those awards, Jones was also awarded the highest honor given at Syracuse University, the University Scholarship, which is only awarded to 12 students."