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Interview with Jordan Brant at Onkwawenna Kentyohkwa

After two school years through immersion students learn Mohawk.

Erin Clancy speaks to Jordan Brant about the Onkwawenna Kentyohkwa program, a full time- adult immersion school in the Mohawk language

Interview with First Year Program instructor Jordan Brant at Onkwawenna Kentyohkwa, a full time- adult immersion school in the Mohawk language. Students enter the program as non-speakers and graduate the program as speakers over two full school years.

”Onkwawenna Kentyohkwa (Our Language Society) is a community-based organization that teaches Kanyen’keha (the “Mohawk” language) to adults on the Six Nations Grand River Territory near Brantford, Ontario.

This is a full-time program that takes place over two school years. We began teaching in September, 1999. But we do not just teach language, we create speakers.” from https://onkwawenna.info/

Please note: The quality of the audio and video in each interview on NCCIE.CA may vary. NCCIE has been a capacity- and skills-building project for students and youth. They have been "learning-through-doing," learning how to arrange and conduct interviews while, at the same time, gaining experience with the technology.

Resources

YouTube Channel for Onkwawenna Kentyohkwa

YouTube Channel for Onkwawenna Kentyohkwa featuring videos of participant progress, language tips and more: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCuRlpf5bo0pxlQKy9Pnn9oA/featured

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Contact Details

Organization: Onkwawenna Kentyohkwa
Location: Onkwawenna Kentyohkwa
Name: Jordan Brant
Title: First Year Program Instructor
Address:
16 Sunrise Court, Suite 402
Ohsweken, ON
N0A 1M0
Email Address: onkwawenna@gmail.com
Phone Number: (519) 445-1250

Contributor

Name: Erin Clancy
Twitter: https://twitter.com/erin__clancy
LinkedIn: https://ca.linkedin.com/in/erin-clancy-23b9a9124
Regional Lead(s):
  • Don McCaskill 

Province/Territory

Ontario

Education Levels

Community
Post-Secondary

Education Topics

Language
Professional Development
Student Support/Success

Language Spoken

English