Episodes

  • S2E9: Alex & Camille(Sine) Firethunder

    S2E9: Alex & Camille(Sine) Firethunder
    Jun 12 2025

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    Alex FireThunder is the Chair / Director of the Lakota Studies Department at Oglala Lakota College. He resides in Kyle, SD on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation. As an enrolled member of the Oglala Lakota Nation, Alex brings a wealth of experience to his role, holding a BSW in Social Work, MA in Lakota Leadership, and a Lakota Language Certificate from Oglala Lakota College. As a seasoned educator, Alex has taught Lakota to pre-K on up to the college level for the past ten years. A musician and NAMMY award-winning song composer, he founded Hóyeya, a platform for promoting Lakota language content. Alex believes in the transformative power of language in shaping a strong Lakota identity which is reflected in how he and his wife raise their three beautiful children in the language.

    Camille Sine-Firethunder is a mother, wife, language learner, former teacher, and content creator for the Lakota/Dakota Language platform HOYEYA. Camille is an enrolled tribal member of the Sisseton Wahpeton Oyate and currently resides in Kyle, South Dakota with her husband Alex and their three children. After being a classroom teacher for seven years, Camille is now a stay-at-home-mom. She has recently become known for her children's show published on YouTube called "Language For Littles with Thunwin Camille". Her show draws inspiration from the YouTube sensation Miss Rachel, but rather than focusing on English speech development, Camille puts her attention to the underserved and underrepresented Lakota / Dakota children and their Lakota/Dakota speech development and acquisition. Her life's mission is to be a good mother and wife and to learn and raise her children in the Lakota and Dakota language.


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    1 hr and 53 mins
  • S2E8: Karennenhá:wi Goodleaf

    S2E8: Karennenhá:wi Goodleaf
    May 22 2025

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    Karennenhá:wi (Ierennahá:wi) Goodleaf is a Kanien’kehá:ka from Kahnawà:ke who is a second language kanien’kéha speaker. She graduated from the adult Kanien’kéha immersion program Ratiwennahnírats. She later went on to teach for the next 10 years at a kanien’kéha elementary immersion school and language nest in Ganienkeh. She is a mother of one and because of her strong language foundation she is now raising her daughter as a first language kanien’kéha speaker. Karennenhá:wi is now a holistic wellness practitioner who has studied foraging and medicine making and is also currently enrolled in a 2 year herbal immersion program. She enjoys volunteering for the Native Wellness Institute’s annual youth wellness camp. She continues to support health, wellness and language in the home and community.

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    1 hr and 23 mins
  • S2E7: Bagwajinini - Alex Kmett

    S2E7: Bagwajinini - Alex Kmett
    Apr 10 2025

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    Bagwajinini-Alex Kmett is a citizen of the Red Lake Nation (Eagle clan) and a descendant of the Pillager Band at Leech Lake, by way of Ponemah and Cass Lake, respectively. He is a co-founder of the Endazhi-Nitaawiging Charter School at Red Lake, where he currently serves as a Curriculum Designer, and a co-founder of Ojibwemotaadidaa's Gookonaanig Endaawaad Language Nest at Fond du Lac. He holds a Master of Arts in Indigenous Education from Arizona State University, and has taught Ojibwe language at Fond du Lac Tribal and Community College and University of Minnesota Morris, in addition to Ojibwemotaadidaa Omaa Gidakiiminaang (OOG). As a second language speaker/learner, he and his partner raise their two children to be trilingual Ojibwe/Spanish/English speakers utilizing a unique blend of ML@H and OPOL parenting methods. In addition to his work in language and education, he is an artist, experimental musician, food producer, and advocate for land back.

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    1 hr and 42 mins
  • S2E6: Tahohtharátye -Joe Brant

    S2E6: Tahohtharátye -Joe Brant
    Feb 13 2025

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    Tahohtharátye’ (Joe Brant) sits with the Bear Clan, from Tyendinaga Mohawk Nation Territory. He is an advanced proficiency second-language learner of Kanyen’kéha and has been an elementary, secondary, and post-secondary educator in his community. Tahohtharátye has dedicated much of his adult life to Kanyen’kéha learning and revitalization in his family and community. As L2 speakers, he and his partner Tewahséhtha have created and maintain a Kanyen’kéha speaking home since 2007. They have raised two children as first-language Kanyen’kéha speakers – the first in their community in several generations. In 2024, Tahohtharátye’ completed his Ph.D. in Indigenous Language Revitalization from the University of Victoria in a culminating dissertation titled: Tó: nya’teká:yen tsi entewà:ronke’ - Onkwehonwehnéha documentation for advanced adult Kanyen’kéha learning. In this work, he demonstrates a collaborative practitioner documentation approach to planning, implementing, analyzing, and disseminating first-language documentation designed for proficiency development in andragogy.


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    1 hr and 37 mins
  • S2E5: Miigwanaabiik - Jessica Shonias

    S2E5: Miigwanaabiik - Jessica Shonias
    Dec 13 2024

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    Miigwanaabiikwe Jessica Shonias is caribou clan from Rama First Nation and Atikameksheng Anishnawbek. Her and her husband Beedaban have three boys together whom they speak the language to at home in Rama. She is a cofounder of Eshki-Nishnaabemjig Immersion Academy, as well as a producer and cohost of the Language Podcast. She holds a Master of Arts in Indigenous Governance, a B.Ed. as well as ECE. Jessica has taught both in and out of immersion, to both primary and secondary grades, as well as adult learners of varying levels. She was a successful attendee of Ojibwemotaadidaa Omaa Gidakiiminanng (OOG) immersion academy in Fond du Lac, Minnesota, which informs her practice as well as her experience in immersion settings.






    Disclosure: Germany does not have the highest amount of listener downloads. It is currently the third country with the highest amount of listeners, particularly from one city. First and second "countries" with the highest amount of listeners are from Turtle Island. (Canada & the US)


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    1 hr and 45 mins
  • S2E4: Migizi - Dr. Michael Migizi Sullivan Sr.

    S2E4: Migizi - Dr. Michael Migizi Sullivan Sr.
    Jul 4 2024

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    Join us as we sit with Dr. Michael Migizi Sullivan Sr, an incredible father and second language learner, Native American Studies Director Ph.D of Philosophy - Linguistics - University of Minnesota. Migizi being someone who has helped both Ozaawaa and I during our language journeys, we are honoured for him to take the time to share his outlook on Ojibwemowin and how he has taught, raised children and inspired many more with his gifts of the language.

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    1 hr and 15 mins
  • S2E3: Kahawani - Mary Antone

    S2E3: Kahawani - Mary Antone
    Jun 10 2024

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    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.



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    53 mins
  • S2E2: Nishinaabemwin Bemwidood - Falcon McLeod-Shabogesic

    S2E2: Nishinaabemwin Bemwidood - Falcon McLeod-Shabogesic
    May 18 2024

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    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.


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    1 hr and 24 mins