Karihwanoron: Precious Things (with Kanien'kéha/Mohawk subtitles)

Karihwanoron: Precious Things (with Kanien'kéha/Mohawk subtitles) | Short Docs

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7 жыл бұрын

A Mohawk immersion school, founded by the community to keep their language alive.
Yagorihwanirats, a Mohawk child from Kahnawake Mohawk Territory in Quebec, attends a unique and special school: Karihwanoron is a Mohawk immersion program that teaches Mohawk language, culture and philosophy. Yagorihwanirats is so excited to go to school that she never wants to miss a day - even if she is sick.
Yahorihwanirats’ great-grandmother, Francis Dione, was forced to not speak her language as a child. This is was what inspired her to encourage community members to create Karihwanoron - a school that would foster the Mohawk language for generations to come.
Francis’ granddaughter (and Yagorihwanirats’ mother) Wentahawi was one of the first students to attend the school.
Karihwanoron does not receive adequate financial assistance from the government - but with a little luck, creativity and the community’s support, Karihwanoron somehow always manages to raise enough money to stay open for another year. Unfortunately, this year, the school is at risk of having to close its doors. Permanently.
Translation for Kanien'kéha/Mowhawk subtitles by Akwiratékha Martin.
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@watakerenawi 7 жыл бұрын

I am a former student of Karihwanoron, graduated in 2007. Growing up with the knowledge of our culture and language really helped to shape me into the woman I am today. We as Onkwehon:we people fight very hard to keep our ancestral ways alive, Karihwanoron is one of them. 10 years later and my love for language has only grew much bigger as I am studying for a BA degree in Kanien'keha language, in hopes to revitalize it within the Kahnawake community. I support this school %100!!

@jazzyrivera6396 5 жыл бұрын

Watakerenawi Dunkley have you continued to keep the language alive going 2 years later 🤙🏽

@languox 3 жыл бұрын

Where are you studying that BA or did you finish already?

@puffinspictures 7 жыл бұрын

So nice to see programs like this. It would be nice if the government -- and Canadians as a whole, really -- valued indigenous languages more.

@yasminebubteina 4 жыл бұрын

Idk why it’s not taught outside the reserves :( it should be recognized as an official language I’m not of indigenous decent but I would love to learn the language

@reesec7263 3 жыл бұрын

This made me cry, I never got to learn much of my mohawk heritage and I’m so glad that these children are :)

@OceanAdrift 7 жыл бұрын

Yagorihwanirats's cheer is so damn infectious. I can also completely relate to missing my cats while in school. If the school administration would be able to put up a GoFundMe I think that would be awesome (though I know it's not as easy as one-two-three).

@robertlaporte2998 3 жыл бұрын

Teach them young so they never forget. I will make a donation for this school in the near future.

@sunnieonesotrue5868 Жыл бұрын

She is very blessed for this experience.

@marsblue2238 5 жыл бұрын

Found their website! www.karihwanoron.com/ It looks like the school's still going as of today. I hope more people take interest in this school and other programmes like this to keep native cultures alive and support these very important efforts!

@gachacandyp7594 7 жыл бұрын

That's amazing they have a school where they can learn about being ukwehuwe . I am from Oneida and we have only begun our language journey to try and save our language. I have been learning our language since I was 5 years old but never in an Emersion setting. We are down to our last 30 speakers which are very elderly and to me it's a crutial time. It is quite a challenge but seeing this video is very inspiring and helps me not to give up. I know there are a lot of us Oneidas here that wish we could speak more than 5 sentences to each other. Yaw^ko and keep up the amazing work and I hope this school is able to continue on just the way it is.

@africaRBG 3 жыл бұрын

U from near london?

@africaRBG 3 жыл бұрын

Hows it going with the Oneida language?

@Bocchi-the-Rock_ 3 жыл бұрын

I'm just hear (haha) because I love the language and accent, it's so beautiful. I wish I could speak it, but it would never be as lovely as someone who speaks so naturally

@osch5303 7 жыл бұрын

I can relate to Wentahawi so much. I'm living in Germany with my six year old daughter and her first language is Gaeilge/Irish. She speaks fluent German too. She went through a phase of wishing I would speak to her in German, but just today she told me she can't wait to go back to Ireland to visit her Irish-speaking cousins and she thinks Irish is so cool because it's "just our little secret." I hope that this school can stay open for as long as possible so these gorgeous little children can learn about their beautiful culture and language. If anybody knows where I can donate, please let me know. I would be more than happy to.

@Ganusiyosta 7 жыл бұрын

www.generosity.com/education-fundraising/the-karihwanoron-mohawk-immersion-school

@caillousnipe9732 5 жыл бұрын

I am from kanawa:ke

@gabrielmonet-alarcia8146 3 жыл бұрын

Fascinated by my neighbors

@TroyKC 4 жыл бұрын

I can speak some Tsalagi (Cherokee) which is also in the Iroquoian language family. One lady said edoda means grandma? In Tsalagi edoda is "My father" (when speaking directly to my own father) also hisgi or hisg is the number 5 and I think you all say wi:sk?

@peanuthead6908 7 жыл бұрын

She's my sister.

@Englishkin 4 жыл бұрын

Expecting that foreign "Government" which militated against speaking Mohawk to now recognize or "mandate" (!) Mohawk (because, Government always mandates, they never provide for, except by force -- by Governing) is quite ironic and shows the lack of understanding among Natives that an occupying foreign invader is not to be expected to now be "benevolent" (by mandate?!) to those whom that Government has done everything to destroy. One's destroyer is not one's resuscitator. Being immersed in that occupier's cuisine, clothing, transportation, communications and other forms of the invader's culture militate against and isolate the Native language that somehow will seem at odds with everything else that is accepted of that invader's culture. Total immersion in the traditional Mohawk culture will support immersion in the Mohawk language, just as multiple legs support and define a chair.