Description: Speakers dinner at Bears Inn

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Audio Details

• Recording Date: Feb 19, 1997
• Speakers: Wilfred Jaimison, Ruth Isaacs, Isabel Maracle, Vina Loft, Peter Loft, Minnie Hill, Frank Miller
• Community: Six Nations of the Grand River
• Language: Mohawk (Kanyen’kéha)
• Recording Context: Educational use

Content and Timestamps

0:00 Mohawk mixed with English, mostly English
2:00 English

5:00 Mohawk
5:20 Minnie
7:00 Ima – students who are and aren’t learning the language
8:00 tehniyáhse

9:00 English
11:00 Mohawk
12:20 English and Mohawk

12:50 Mohawk
12:50 Tehahenteh
13:20 Ima

14:25 English – Residential schools and when Europeans came over
17:00 Wilfred

18:15 Mohawk
18:15 Vina
18:20 skén:nen (skón:nen)
19:10 Tehahenteh – let’s work together and be proud to be native, we’re strong
21:10 Vina
25:50 Ima

28:30 English mixed with English, mostly English
28:30 Ima

30:35 Side 2
30:35 English

32:30 Mohawk – What they could talk about in Mohawk at these meetings
32:30 Tehahenteh
32:45 Wilfred
34:45 Ima
38:20 Tehahenteh
39:10 Wilfred
39:30 ne nahò:ten
39:45 Vina
40:30 Kanyen’kehá:ka (Mohawk language)
43:00 karihstanó:ron – gold (not the colour)
45:50 Ima

47:00 ish Wilfred – talk about dialect differences in the east
49:00 ish Vina
49:50 Ima, Wilfred, Vina, etc.

52:25 English
54:45 how the blacks are mixed in to the communities

55:15 Mohawk – Vina and others

56:00 English – talk about the language
58:30-59:00 Wilfred speaks Cayuga

59:35 Mohawk – Wilfred
100:10 tekeniyáhse
100:48 end

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