Enweying - Our Sound Podcast
12 episodes - English - Latest episode: 19 days ago - ★★★★★ - 2 ratingsAs an Anishinaabe household of 5 (including the dog), join us as we share our experiences raising our children speaking to them in Anishinaabemowin (Ojibwe language) as Second Language Learners ourselves. Anishinaabemowin is the language of the Anishinaabe people - also known as Ojibwe. It is an Indigenous language that has been targeted by genocide since settlers arrived on Turtle Island (North America). This is our commitment to helping fight and reclaim OUR SOUND- ENWEYING.
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S2E4: Migizi
July 04, 2024 12:00 - 1 hour - 51.8 MBSend us a Text Message. Join us as we sit with Dr. Michael Migizi Sullivan Sr, an incredible father and second language learner of Ojibwemowin. He's the Faculty Director of Native American Studies at Lac Courte Oreilles Ojibwe College. He earned his PhD in linguistics from the University of Minnesota - Twin Cities. Migizi has helped both Ozaawaa and I during our language journeys with our time at Ojibwemotaadidaa Omaa Gidakiiminaang immersion academy and beyond. We are honoured that he sha...
S2E3: Kahawani
June 10, 2024 13:00 - 52 minutes - 36.3 MBSend us a Text Message. We are very excited to share this episode with you as we speak with Kahawani, also known as Mary Antone, from the Oneida Nation People of the Standing Stone. Kahawani, another second language learner, speaks with us as she is raising her daughter in the Oneida language. Join us as we share our similar experiences and insight to Kahawani despite our different target languages. linktr.ee/enweying.oursound Many people have reached out to ask where they can donate or s...
S2E2: Nishinaabemwin Bemwidood
May 18, 2024 19:00 - 1 hour - 57.5 MBSend us a Text Message. We welcome Nishinaabemwin Bemwidood - Falcon McLeod-Shabogesic an Anishinaabe from Nipissing First Nation to Enweying. We're excited to share his stories of his second language learning experiences, educational pathways he's paved as an Nishinaabemwin educator to embedding language into the sinews of daily life as a parent passing down his heritage language. https://www.youtube.com/@falconmcleod-shabogesic790 linktr.ee/enweying.oursound Many people have reached o...
S2E1: Updates- We're back!
August 30, 2023 16:00 - 1 hour - 54.6 MBSend us a Text Message. This episodes topic mostly cover what we’ve been up to since the last seasons releases. We experienced a global pandemic which changed many things in our day to day life. Our children are older and the family has grown together through the natural changes of life as we navigated the Covid era. This episode covers updates with the transitions of life and how Mshkogaabwid overcame a period of time where speaking was too painful, and the way she found her way back to tr...
Updates: We're back!
August 30, 2023 16:00 - 1 hour - 54.6 MBBoozhoo! This is a grass roots podcast about our family of 5 including our rez pup. We are raising our family in an Immersive Anishinaabemowin household. We are anxious to try and share our lives with you again. This time hopefully with more audible content. This episode is updates on where we are now, how English has entered our lives and what we've done to try and combat lifes tribulations while reclaiming our language on our own land - Mshiikenh Mnising (Turtle Island). #LandBack #Ev...
S1E6: Shkwaaj - The Last One
May 28, 2021 04:00 - 57 minutes - 39.5 MBSend us a Text Message. In this final episode of Season 1, of “Enweying - Our Sound” we reflect on our families’ journey since creating the podcast the feedback we have received since creating it and the emotions brought on with this podcast moving across Turtle Island through this “big spiders web.” We share some moments we are grateful for as we created this podcast and how it has helped us for the better moving forward as a family in our Anishinaabemowin Immersion household journey. In ...
S1 Bonus Track : Full CBC Interview
May 19, 2021 10:49 - 53 minutes - 36.5 MBSend us a Text Message. FULL Interview with Kate Adach from CBC. 18 Minutes of this interview was broadcasted on CBC’s Program: Unreserved, as well as through CBC Indigenous. In this 53 min interview solely with Mshkogaabwid Kwe (Emmaline) hear the more in-depth answers Emmaline shares and digs deeper into her and Ozaawaa’s (Monty) backstory as a couple. We speak on normal challenges we face as a family, facing a pandemic as well as raising our children in a Anishinaabemowin-Immersion hous...
S1E5: Maintaining the Language Around Those Who Don't Speak
May 01, 2021 04:18 - 52 minutes - 36.3 MBSend us a Text Message. This episode we opened up a bit more about our past and our family dynamics. We discuss what it was that drove us to have this life, how our families felt about it, barriers we face connecting with Anishinaabemowin First Speakers, and being noticed within community while speaking. We cover sharing our journeys with our families, how we maintain immersion in an English world, tips and stories, and who has impacted us along the way. A lot of laughs and cries in this ep...
S1E4: Children Should Learn Grammar!
April 23, 2021 05:49 - 41 minutes - 28.2 MBSend us a Text Message. In this episode, we talk about why children should learn grammar...kind of. We give our reasons in how and why children and adults need to learn the grammatical aspects of the language. We also discuss why adults need to know the more technical aspects of Anishinaabemowin and how we share our knowledge of 'grammar patterns' with our children. We talk about the importance of us as learners, reading to our children. We debunk an aspect of the language learning myth t...
S1E3: Moments We Experienced Unexpected Challenges
April 20, 2021 21:56 - 49 minutes - 33.7 MBSend us a Text Message. During this episode we touch on times we have struggled trying to stay motivated and encouraged while parenting in an Anishinaabemowin Immersion household. We also speak on times of things that we found were obstacles to get over in our own personal learning journeys as we learned Anishinaabemowin as adults.PSA: If you do not wish to listen to our Anishinaabemowin dialogue skip to 6min 25 sec.Follow us on Instagram @oursound.enweying linktr.ee/enweying.oursound Many ...
S1E2: Good Times Learning the Language
April 10, 2021 19:54 - 52 minutes - 36.4 MBSend us a Text Message. In this episode we touch on times that we have laughed while learning, times we have learned a lot and why, and times we felt rewarded in the home teaching our children the language. PSA: If you do not wish to listen to us speaking Anishinaabemowin skip to 13 min Follow us on Instagram @oursound.enweying linktr.ee/enweying.oursound Many people have reached out to ask where they can donate or support revitalization efforts. This link leads to our Link Tree which h...
S1E1: Boozhoo! Welcome! Introduction to us!
April 10, 2021 19:27 - 45 minutes - 30.9 MBSend us a Text Message. Boozhoo! Hello! An introduction to our family. Ozaawaa Giizhigo Ginew & Mshkogaabwid Kwe speak in Anishinaabemowin (Ojibway) and English to explain our families journey as we raise our children in Anishinaabemowin as Second Language Learners. Get to know us as we share times we have spent learning the language we which found enjoyable and fun in this episode! Join us on our journey as we discuss resources, tips, advice, stories, triumphs, dissapointments, realities,...