Like other Indigenous people in the early stages of reclaiming traditions, Kristi Talbot, a Mohawk woman with ties to the Six Nations community in Ontario, is prioritizing language revitalization.

Some nights when I put my four-year-old daughter to bed, after we’ve read through her latest favourite library books, she asks me to teach her some Mohawk words. Mohawk is the language of my mother, ...

Post-secondary schools are joining the movement to revive Mohawk, a threatened Iroquoian language spoken by only about 1,000 people in North America. The dwindling numbers of speakers – due to ...

It started with a word of the week printed in Mohawk in 2020. Then it grew to one page with two stories in the Eastern Door in 2022. Now, Sharing Our Stories, a project to help revitalize the ...

First Words is a weekly podcast focused on Indigenous languages. Each week, we welcome a new guest into the hosting chair to teach us a few words in their language. Logan Staats is a Mohawk musician ...

The first people to call the Capital Region home were Native Americans. The Mohawk and Mohican tribes are the area’s largest and several of the names they gave local towns, creeks and mountains are ...