Explore every episode of the podcast Words and Culture
| Title | Pub. Date | Duration | |
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| Fill Your Metis Language Bowl | 18 août 2025 | 00:27:29 | |
Artist, advocate, and language learner Christi Belcourt joins host Shelagh Rogers to talk name reclamation, Métis scrip, and her own language teachers, including Métis matriarch Maria Campbell. Funded by Sirius XM Canada through the Community Radio Fund of Canada | |||
| Making a Métis Story Blanket | 15 août 2025 | 00:27:30 | |
Host Shelagh Rogers continues her journey of connecting back to the community with her conversation with Tracy Fehr and her project of honouring Métis women and their ancestors. Funded by Sirius XM Canada through the Community Radio Fund of Canada | |||
| The Truth Amanda Rheaume Holds | 03 août 2025 | 00:27:30 | |
Métis singer-songwriter Amanda Rheaume shares the stories of her latest album The Truth We Hold. It chronicles Métis history both past and present. Amanda and host Shelagh Rogers practice their Michif. Funded by Sirius XM Canada through the Community Radio Fund of Canada | |||
| The Métis Poet | 29 juil. 2025 | 00:27:29 | |
Shelagh Rogers is joined by Governor-General award winning Métis writer Katherena Vermette who shares from her new book of poetry, and her thoughts on her ancestors and future generations. Funded by Sirius XM Canada through the Community Radio Fund of Canada | |||
| Michif is a Trading Language | 22 juil. 2025 | 00:27:30 | |
Legendary broadcaster Shelagh Rogers shares her journey of Métis connection while talking with Michif speakers and learners. Guest Heather Souter explains how Michif was born and how the language is kept alive. Funded by Sirius XM Canada through the Community Radio Fund of Canada | |||
| TikTok and the Art of Language Revitalization | 14 juil. 2025 | 00:25:42 | |
Lindsey Denny and Elisha Sapier use TikTok to reach youth and other tech savvy peeps in their bid to help revitalize the Mi'kmaq language. From bloopers to community involvement, Lindsey and Elisha are taking on the world, one Mi’kmaq word a day. Funded by Sirius XM Canada through the Community Radio Fund of Canada | |||
| Love of Linguistics | 04 juil. 2025 | 00:27:30 | |
Bernie Francis is a linguist of the Mi'kmaq language. But what is a linguist exactly? Before we find out, Bernie takes a deep dive into how he used language to help the Mi’kmaw from going to jail because they didn’t know the colonizer’s language. Funded by Sirius XM Canada through the Community Radio Fund of Canada | |||
| How the Language Informs Everything | 30 juin 2025 | 00:27:30 | |
Elder Cheryl Maloney shares the prophecy of the white owl and how its appearance foretold change for the Mi’kmaw and how that change would first destroy them but then rebuild their nation anew. Funded by Sirius XM Canada through the Community Radio Fund of Canada | |||
| Language and Song | 30 juin 2025 | 00:27:30 | |
Wolastoqey musician and language learner Jeremy Dutcher share how he was invited into 94-year-old Henrietta Black’s home to learn more of his language, and how his music is purposely designed to reach people and share his love of his language and world-view. Funded by Sirius XM Canada through the Community Radio Fund of Canada | |||
| The Written Language | 16 juin 2025 | 00:27:30 | |
There are a lot of assumptions around Indigenous languages in Canada. But the biggest fallacy might be that they are purely oral language. Host Pam Palmater talks with educator, poet, and artist Michelle Sylliboy whose work focuses on the oral and written language of Mi’kmaq. Petroglyphs tell the story of contact while others are pre-contact. Funded by Sirius XM Canada through the Community Radio Fund of Canada | |||
| Welcome to Mi'kma'ki | 10 juin 2025 | 00:27:30 | |
In the first episode of the Mi’kmaq episodes, our host Pam Palmater introduces us to Jarvis Googoo who speaks all over the Maritimes about Mi'kmaq history and culture. He is the embodiment of what it means to share our culture with the world. He is a marathon runner with a law degree and is the host of the TV show Mi’kmagi. Jarvis talks about the return to original place names. Funded by Sirius XM Canada through the Community Radio Fund of Canada | |||
| Passing the language on | 21 avr. 2025 | 00:27:30 | |
Richard Armstrong is an Elder and a first language speaker of nsyilxcən. is determined to keep teaching the language to younger people by meeting them where they are comfortable – online. Host Tracey Kim Bonneau visits with Richards and also learns more about the land around her through language. Funded by Sirius XM Canada through the Community Radio Fund of Canada | |||
| The Language Light | 14 avr. 2025 | 00:27:30 | |
Kristine Jack was raised with language speakers. She listened to her grandmother as she shared stories with the other women while out on the land or even just visiting their home. And this was her spark to learn the language because as Kristine tells it, she really wanted to know what they were saying. Funded by Sirius XM Canada through the Community Radio Fund of Canada | |||
| Building a Written Language | 07 avr. 2025 | 00:27:30 | |
Dr. Maxine Baptiste shares how the nsyilxcn written language evolved as technology evolved. And gives Tracey Kim Bonneau a lesson on nsyilxcn sounds that don’t exist in the English language. Funded by Sirius XM Canada through the Community Radio Fund of Canada | |||
| Generationally speaking | 31 mars 2025 | 00:24:30 | |
In this emotionally-packed episode, host Tracey Kim Bonneau speaks with her daughter about what it’s like working to reclaim her language while also trying to raise her granddaughter with language. Funded by Sirius XM Canada through the Community Radio Fund of Canada | |||
| The Secret Language | 26 mars 2025 | 00:24:15 | |
Host Tracey Kim Bonneau talks with language learner and keeper Peggy Joe about growing up and hearing adults use the syilx language for secrets and then learning it herself to teach her grandchildren. Funded by Sirius XM Canada through the Community Radio Fund of Canada | |||
| Episode One | 24 mars 2025 | 00:27:30 | |
Host Tracey Kim Bonneau introduces you to the syilx of the Okanagan Valley. Her guest is cultural and language keeper Elder Rose Coldwell. They start the series in a good way with a blessing and song from the land. Funded by Sirius XM Canada through the Community Radio Fund of Canada | |||
| Song Carrier | 10 mars 2025 | 00:17:15 | |
The process of being a giant part of Haida culture and the stories of being a “just a man on a journey”. Funded by Sirius XM Canada through the Community Radio Fund of Canada | |||
| The Bentwood Box | 03 mars 2025 | 00:27:30 | |
Christian White shares his experiences as an artist and thoughts on how to find your place in the community while learning the language. Funded by Sirius XM Canada through the Community Radio Fund of Canada | |||
| The Journey of Language | 24 févr. 2025 | 00:27:30 | |
Erika Ryan shares her love of the Haida language, how she learned and how she is passing it along to not only younger generations but older ones as well. Plus she teaches Kristi how to flirt in the language! Funded by Sirius XM Canada through the Community Radio Fund of Canada | |||
| Belly Button Rain | 18 févr. 2025 | 00:27:30 | |
Diane Brown shares her experiences in becoming a storyteller of Haida legends. She shares one of the legends about raven. Funded by Sirius XM Canada through the Community Radio Fund of Canada | |||
| It Takes a Village | 10 févr. 2025 | 00:23:32 | |
Kristi Lane Sinclair takes listeners to a potlatch to feast and celebrate the Gidansta pole. She paints the scenes in the longhouse and shares how the potlatch ban and outlawing of ceremonies affected the Haida. Funded by Sirius XM Canada through the Community Radio Fund of Canada | |||
| The Haida Way of Being | 03 févr. 2025 | 00:21:28 | |
Haida/Cree musician Kristi Lane Sinclair hosts the Haida Episodes as we kick off season 2 of Words and Culture. Kristi visits carvers Jaalan and Gwaai Edenshaw as they finish creating a memorial pole for their father, Guujaaw. Funded by Sirius XM Canada through the Community Radio Fund of Canada | |||
| The Inuktitut Episodes - Episode 6 | 26 août 2024 | 00:30:00 | |
Musician Beatrice Deer shares her love of tattoos with Madeleine and the importance of traditional tattoos. Then Madeleine shares an intimate moment in her life as she receives another line in her chin tattoo. Funded by Sirius XM Canada through the Community Radio Fund of Canada | |||
| The Inuktitut Episodes - Episode 5 | 19 août 2024 | 00:30:00 | |
Madeleine is visited by Meeka Mike in her own kitchen. Get ready to be immersed in Inuktitut as Meeka bakes bannock for Madeleine while sharing parts of her journey as an Inuk. Funded by Sirius XM Canada through the Community Radio Fund of Canada | |||
| The Inuktitut Episodes - Episode 4 | 12 août 2024 | 00:30:00 | |
Robbie Watt joins Madeleine and shares his love of throat singing. He discusses how he learned it and continues to sing it today, even though throat singing is mainly sung by women. Funded by Sirius XM Canada through the Community Radio Fund of Canada | |||
| The Inuktitut Episodes - Episode 3 | 05 août 2024 | 00:30:00 | |
Madeleine steps out of her comfort zone and interviews her dear “chum” Lucy Qavavauq who she has known since residential school and then as mothers. Lucy is now the co-CEO of Inuit TV. They share laughter, tears and the importance of keeping the Inuktitut language alive. Funded by Sirius XM Canada through the Community Radio Fund of Canada | |||
| The Inuktitut Episodes - Episode 2 | 31 juil. 2024 | 00:29:59 | |
Madeleine visits her good friend and former colleague Joanna Awa. They share their love of the north, broadcasting in Inuktitut, and the colonization of her family by Qallunaat - or white people. Funded by Sirius XM Canada through the Community Radio Fund of Canada | |||
| The Inuktitut Episodes - Episode 1 | 29 juil. 2024 | 00:25:44 | |
Host Madeleine Alakkariallak introduces us to the Inuktitut language and the Inuit who continue to speak it. Guest Louise Flaherty is a book publisher and is a first language learner and she shares how she became a translator for her grandparents at a very young age. Funded by Sirius XM Canada through the Community Radio Fund of Canada | |||
| The Future of Anishinaabemowin | 15 juil. 2024 | 00:30:00 | |
Author Waubgeshig Rice brings Anishinaabemowin into the future with his novels set in a futuristic world. Waub discusses his love of the written word and how that has allowed him to bring his language to readers of all cultures. Funded by Sirius XM Canada through the Community Radio Fund of Canada | |||
| Anishinaabemowin in social media | 08 juil. 2024 | 00:29:59 | |
James Vukelich shares his love of the language on his Instagram account by sharing a word of the day. He took up the challenge during the pandemic and has more than 123,000 followers – all for the love of Anishinaabemowin. Funded by Sirius XM Canada through the Community Radio Fund of Canada | |||
| Bringing Anishinaabemowin to Song | 05 juil. 2024 | 00:21:58 | |
Anishinaabe singer/songwriter Shy-Anne Horvorka has returned to music after a several years long break. She has returned with not only new music but for the first time, music in Anishinaabemowin. Funded by Sirius XM Canada through the Community Radio Fund of Canada | |||
| May the Anishinaabemowin Be With You | 24 juin 2024 | 00:27:12 | |
Language keeper Patricia Ningewance loves her language and translating English into Anishinaabemowin. Patricia is an author, painter, nookum and is translating Star Wars into Anishinaabemowin. Funded by Sirius XM Canada through the Community Radio Fund of Canada | |||
| Anishinaabemowin Immersion | 17 juin 2024 | 00:27:00 | |
Duncan McCue is a former journalist turned professor. He shares his journey of learning Anishinaabemowin and what it was like being fully immersed in the language and his struggle to keep it up in his daily life. Funded by Sirius XM Canada through the Community Radio Fund of Canada | |||
| Anishinaabemowin and the Old Ways | 13 juin 2024 | 00:26:52 | |
Elder Barbara Nepinak prefers to keep the old ways of the language, where it has deeper meaning and a connection to the Anishinaabe world-view. Funded by Sirius XM Canada through the Community Radio Fund of Canada | |||
| Athabaskan Languages Episode 6 | 11 juin 2024 | 00:22:09 | |
Host Christine Genier introduces us to her auntie, Nakhela Hazel Bunbury. Auntie, as Christine calls her, is a language teacher, an Elder, and family matriarch. Auntie is well-known for her language work, advocacy and teaching. Funded by Sirius XM Canada through the Community Radio Fund of Canada | |||
| Athabaskan Languages Episode 5 | 11 juin 2024 | 00:25:06 | |
Lenita Alatini is a Southern Tutchone speaker and language teacher. Host Christine Genier visits Lenita in her home in Burwash, Yukon. Lenita shares how she is passing on the language while they talk in both the Dän k'é Kwinjé and English. Funded by Sirius XM Canada through the Community Radio Fund of Canada | |||
| Athabaskan Languages Episode 4 | 20 mai 2024 | 00:23:47 | |
Christine sits down with musician Bria Rose, a Tahltan citizin. She shares her love of music, culture and language and performs a drum song. Funded by Sirius XM Canada through the Community Radio Fund of Canada | |||
| Athabaskan Languages Episode 3 | 13 mai 2024 | 00:24:50 | |
Jolenda Benjamin is a teacher, a mother, and a keeper of the Upper Tanana language. Christine and Jolenda discuss how the U.S./Canada border split up nations or tribes but how the language has remained on both sides of the borders. Funded by Sirius XM Canada through the Community Radio Fund of Canada | |||
| Athabaskan Languages Episode 2 | 09 mai 2024 | 00:30:00 | |
Christine visits with Gwichi’in language speaker Brandon Kikyvichik about how their language is part of the Athabaskan family of languages and the different dialects within each language group, and sub-dialects or regional dialects within the major ones. Christine also vistis with Bobbi Rose Koe about her adventure tourism company and how she wraps it in culture. Funded by Sirius XM Canada through the Community Radio Fund of Canada | |||
| Athabaskan Languages Episode 1 | 29 avr. 2024 | 00:30:00 | |
Host Christine Genier is a citizen of the Ta’an Kwach’an Council. Christine speaks with Tina Jules of the Yukon Native Language Centre and why language learning is vital to their emotional, spiritual, and physical well-being. Funded by Sirius XM Canada through the Community Radio Fund of Canada | |||
| Hockey Night in Cree | 22 avr. 2024 | 00:25:13 | |
Host Michael Hutchinson visits with Earl Wood, a Cree commentator bringing his language to life as part of ATPN’s broadcast of Hockey Night in Canada. Plus mezzo-soprano Rhonda Head shares what it was like to sing the national anthem in Cree at an NHL hockey game in Winnipeg. Funded by Sirius XM Canada through the Community Radio Fund of Canada | |||
| Written in the Stars | 15 avr. 2024 | 00:25:40 | |
Allan “Richard” Keeper is a star storyteller, that is he tells stories about the stars and how they relate to the Cree culture. Join host, Michael Hutchinson as they go star trekking in Cree. Funded by Sirius XM Canada through the Community Radio Fund of Canada | |||
| Singing in Omushkegowuk Cree | 08 avr. 2024 | 00:30:00 | |
Singer/songwriter Adrian Sutherland is from the remote community of Attawapiskat First Nation. Adrian talks about what it is like for him to write and sing in his language of Omushkegowuk Cree. Funded by Sirius XM Canada through the Community Radio Fund of Canada | |||
| Blocks in the Language | 01 avr. 2024 | 00:23:46 | |
Ron and Heidi Cook are father and daughter who are in the process of reclaiming their Cree language. Heidi wasn’t taught the language growing up, Ron discusses why. Heidi also shares her concerns of being the first Chief of her reserve who is not fluent. Funded by Sirius XM Canada through the Community Radio Fund of Canada | |||
| Breaking Bannock | 25 mars 2024 | 00:26:01 | |
Take a trip to Michael Hutchinson’s home reserve and visit with his Auntie Stella and her “chapan” while they bake bannock together and Michael learns more about this history of Misipawistik Cree Nation. Funded by Sirius XM Canada through the Community Radio Fund of Canada | |||
| Introduction to Cree dialects | 18 mars 2024 | 00:30:00 | |
Host Michael Hutchinson is a member of the Misipawistik Cree Nation. He sits down with the Grand Chief of the Manitoba Keewatinowi Okimakanak, Garrison Settee, to talk about the different Cree dialects. Funded by Sirius XM Canada through the Community Radio Fund of Canada | |||
| The Future of Kanienʼkéha | 11 mars 2024 | 00:27:31 | |
Semiah Smith is an up-and-coming musician who blends tradition and language into her music. She shares her creative process. Devery Jacobs, star of the hit show Reservation Dogs and Marvel’s What If…Kahhori Reshaped the World? Funded by Sirius XM Canada through the Community Radio Fund of Canada | |||
| The Ambassador of Language | 04 mars 2024 | 00:26:13 | |
Twenty-three-year-old Katsenhaienton shares his journey as a language speaker and teacher and the importance of patience when it comes to speaking and learning. Funded by Sirius XM Canada through the Community Radio Fund of Canada | |||
| Cayuga Games Night | 26 févr. 2024 | 00:21:08 | |
Host January Rogers pays a visit to a Cayuga Games Night where people get together and practice the language by socializing and playing board and trivia games. Guest Shelby Bomberry shares how he became a Long House speaker. Also features an interview with Michael Hill. Funded by Sirius XM Canada through the Community Radio Fund of Canada | |||