by Doyon Foundation | Feb 23, 2023 | Featured Post, Language and Culture, Native Word of the Month
Loretta Lolnitz, an apprentice in our Mentor Apprentice Program, was a snowshoe racer for 20 years. In our February Native word of the month, Loretta shares the story of how she gave her youngest son a Denaakk’e name inspired by her love of snowshoeing. Oyh...
by Doyon Foundation | Jan 26, 2023 | Featured Post, Language and Culture, Native Word of the Month
Learning a language can bring up long-forgotten memories. Loretta Lolnitz, an apprentice in our Mentor Apprentice Program, is learning Denaakk’e with her mentor and mother, Ethel Esmailka. In our January 2023 Native Word of the Month, Loretta shares a word and a...
by Doyon Foundation | Dec 26, 2022 | Featured Post, Language and Culture, Native Word of the Month
Anna Clock, featured in our Storyteller language profile, shares her favorite Denaakk’e word for our December 2022 Native Word of the Month. Edeghoyeneeghaalʉhdeneek = you take care of yourselves – Denaakk’e For more Native words, view our archives on...
by Doyon Foundation | Nov 23, 2022 | Featured Post, Language and Culture, Native Word of the Month
Our November 2022 Native Word of the Month features a video clip from our upcoming Storyteller language profile on Denaakk’e teacher, Susan Paskvan. Dot’aanh? = What is he/she/it doing? “It’s a good word to know for language learners because you can ask ‘what is the...
by Doyon Foundation | Sep 28, 2022 | Featured Post, Language and Culture, Native Word of the Month
When learning a new word or phrase, it’s estimated that a person needs to hear/see/say it 20 times in 20 different situations. That is why consistent practice and repetition is so important for the teams in our Native language Mentor-Apprentice Program (MAP). In our...
by Doyon Foundation | Aug 24, 2022 | Featured Post, Language and Culture, Native Word of the Month
Our Native language Mentor-Apprentice Program is immersion based, and one of the most important practices is to avoid speaking in English. To help our mentor-apprentice teams be successful, we provided immersion phrases to help them “stay in the language.” In our...
