Plenary title: If You Really Care about Onkwehonwe Languages ...
Owennatekha (Brian Maracle) is the co-founder of Onkwawenna Kentyohkwa, a Mohawk immersion program on the Six Nations Grand River Territory in southern Ontario where he has been the director and lead instructor since the program’s founding in 1999. Onkwawenna Kentyohkwa (Our Language Society) enables adults to become Advanced-Level speakers after two years. The program’s root-word curriculum and teaching method has spawned similar programs in other communities and in other languages.
Onkwawenna Kentyohkwa has also conducted an online program based on the root-word method since 2013. In partnership with the National Research Council, Onkwawenna Kentyohkwa has developed Kawennonnis, a digital verb generator.
Before returning to live at Six Nations in the early 1990s, he was the host of the CBC radio program Our Native Land, a reporter for The Globe and Mail and the author of two books on Native issues. Owennatekha is one of the Turtle Clan speakers at the Grand River Mohawk Longhouse.
Owennatekha (Brian Maracle) is the co-founder of Onkwawenna Kentyohkwa, a Mohawk immersion program on the Six Nations Grand River Territory in southern Ontario where he has been the director and lead instructor since the program’s founding in 1999. Onkwawenna Kentyohkwa (Our Language Society) enables adults to become Advanced-Level speakers after two years. The program’s root-word curriculum and teaching method has spawned similar programs in other communities and in other languages.
Onkwawenna Kentyohkwa has also conducted an online program based on the root-word method since 2013. In partnership with the National Research Council, Onkwawenna Kentyohkwa has developed Kawennonnis, a digital verb generator.
Before returning to live at Six Nations in the early 1990s, he was the host of the CBC radio program Our Native Land, a reporter for The Globe and Mail and the author of two books on Native issues. Owennatekha is one of the Turtle Clan speakers at the Grand River Mohawk Longhouse.