Description: Oliver Kawenniio School Recording

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Audio Details

• Recording Date: May 28, 1996
• Community: Six Nations of the Grand River
• Language: Mohawk (Kanyen’kéha)
• Recording Context: Educational use

Content and Timestamps

0:00 Introductions from principal, gets their info
1:00 Mini Hill
2:00 Sandra Loft
2:15 Take care of business in English, lots of silence
3:50 tsikáhkwara sunfish
4:15 Ima Johnson info
5:15 a little bit of talking Mohawk, Vina atshò:ken calendar
6:15 business

6:55 Mohawk starts, Tehahenteh explains what the meetings are for, and how the books are from Kahnawake, to make it applicable to Ohsweken
7:30 Vina explains as well
8:00 Tehahenteh
8:15 Vina re: difference in dialect
9:15 Vina pronounces kéntsyon as “kóntsyen”, they talk about pronouncing it, Peter confirms

10:10 Tehahenteh reads book
10:20 p 2
11:30 p 3
12:00 p 4
13:00 talk about what does oyenhè:ta mean, no one knows
15:30 Mini, Tehahenteh, Sandra
16:20 continue reading
16:35 watonryè:tha
16:55 someone else enters and sits
17:30 continue reading
17:50 do they know the word fins? Vina, Mini, Tehahenteh talk about it
19:35 continue reading
19:50 teyotá:rote what does that mean? Vina and Mini talk about it
20:40 p 6
21:15 kahnòn:ne on its back
23:10 p 7
23:30 yenká:yenhte’, how many eggs will come out, Vina and Mini talk about fish
25:20 continue reading
25:40 Vina
26:10 onó:ta, ohsa’kèn:ta bullrushes
26:30 p 8
27:15 p 9
28:30 p 10
29:20-30 talk about the word aontonnhí:sake

30:35 Side 2 of tape
30:35 continue reading
31:30 p 12
32:30 p 13
33:00 p 14
33:45 p 16
34:15 aotáhsa’ its tail
25:20 p 18
36:15 talk about a word
36:40 p 19
37:10 otshónha, vina and mini talk about it, they don’t know
38:15 vina says, I don’t know that “ne nahò:ten”
39:20 continue reading
39:35 p 20
40:15 tetkanó:ron, talk about it
41:20 continue reading
43:00 p 21
44:10 wateweráta’ahs
44:20 p 22
45:00 yoteweráten
45:20 p 23
45:50 tsi nonkwá:ti, talk about it, they talk about how it is tsi nonká:ti
47:15 p 24
48:00 p 25
49:15 p 26
49:50 enhsahsì:tha’te’, talk about it, to get numb
51:10 continue reading
53:00 p 27
54:25 p 28
55:20 kanyatarowá:nen
55:55 skáhne, not skátne
56:00 talk about a word, going down the river
56:55 p 29?
58:20 teskyatyé:ren not testsyatyé:ren, check the ty or tsy –tyé:ren
59:40 talk about a can
1:00:00 p 31
1:00:15 mini talks
1:00:30 continue reading
1:00:55 end

Credits and Permissions

• Speakers: Tehahenteh, Vina Loft, Mini Hill, Sandra Loft, Peter Loft
• Recording Date: May 28, 1996
• Usage Permissions: Approved for educational Use
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