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Indigenous Languages Revitalization

Resources to assist in Indigenous Language Learning, particularly for languages in close proximity to Queen's and/or taught at Queen's.

Mohawk Language Learning Activities

Mohawk Language Activities Created by the Kingston Native Centre and Language Nest. Videos are used as a way to teach the vocabulary for everyday words including numbers, animals, and nature as well as songs.

Mohawk Language and Culture

"In this unit, Dr. Kanatawakhon-Maracle mentions some of the elements of Mohawk culture that are embedded in the grammar of the language, and we discuss the idea that living languages are always changing." 

Video transcript

Mohawk: Dictionaries and Grammar Resources

Select online reference resources:

  • FirstVoices: Kanien'kéha (Mohawk)
    Listen to an internationally recognized online platform for Indigenous communities to share and promote their languages, oral cultures and linguistic histories. Includes word dictionary and alphabet.

Select books available at Queen's Library focusing on dictionaries, thesauri, and grammar references:

Mohawk: Language Lessons & Language-Learning Resources

Select online language learning lessons and resources to learn Mohawk:

  • Mohawk Language Custodian Association
    Contains vocabulary lessons and audio recordings to support base vocabulary of the Mohawk language. Aimed at adult learners.
     
  • Learning With Tsítha
    Learning With Tsítha is a site dedicated to helping Kanyen’kehá:ka children and their families learn Kanyen’kéha, our ancestral language and culture.
     
  • FirstVoices: Kanien'kéha (Mohawk)
    Created in an online platform for Indigenous communities to share and promote their languages, oral cultures and linguistic histories. Includes songs, games, and stories.

Select online language learning lessons and resources to learn Mohawk

Open Educational Resources:

Print sources available at Queen's Library:

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Storytelling

  • Tóta tánon Ohkwá:ri
    A puppet show in Kanien’kéha (Mohawk language) created by the Kanien’kehá:ka Onkwawén:na Raotitióhkwa Language and Cultural Center.
     
  • FirstVoices: Stories
    Follow along with stories in Kanien'kéha (Mohawk). Created by FirstVoices, an internationally recognized online platform for Indigenous communities to share and promote their languages, oral cultures and linguistic histories.

Online Mohawk Learning

Podcasts

  • KOR Podcast
    Podcast by Kanien’kehá:ka Onkwawén:na Raotitióhkwa Language and Cultural Center, which was created to preserve and enrich the language and culture of the Kanien’kehá:ka (Mohawk) of Kahnawà:ke.