Episode 014: Language
Today's guest is Kahstoserakwathe Paulette Moore, an independent filmmaker, podcaster, artist and educator, who is a Mohawk citizen and an enrolled member of Six Nations of the Grand River territory.
Our conversation deep dives into the importance of language, community, and the impact representation (or the lack thereof) can have on you. We also discuss how losing and/or gaining a language that connects you to your community and who you are affects you.
Kahstoserakwathe Paulette Moore is also a founding member of The Aunties Dandelion: a relationship-centered media collective. The organization seeks to revitalize community through stories of land, language, and relationship.
In this episode, you will be able to:
Discover the transformative power of indigenous languages in community unity.
Explore the implications of the underrepresentation of indigenous cultures in media.
Uncover the inspiring efforts to revitalize the Mohawk language and culture.
Delve into the profound impact of language loss on indigenous communities' heritage.
Embrace the influential role of storytelling in fostering connections across communities.
CW: Discussions about residential schools and genocide
Music: Deppisch
Design: Perpetualnotion.ca
Mixing/ Mastering: Tony Bao
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Kahstoserakwathe Paulette Moore is an independent filmmaker, podcaster, artist and educator. Moore is a Kanyen'kehà:ka (Mohawk) citizen and an enrolled member of Six Nations of the Grand River territory where she is based and is a fluent (ACTFL intermediate/high) Kanyén'kéha speaker.
Moore is a founding member of The Aunties Dandelion: a relationship-centered media collective. The organization seeks to revitalize community through stories of land, language and relationship.
In 2018 Moore completed a series of films with Free Speech TV about the 2016/17 Standing Rock water protection actions and from 2017 - 2019 was an affiliated professor of Indigenous media and philosophy at Northland College in Ashland, Wisconsin. From 2009 - 2015 Moore was an associate professor of media arts and peacebuilding at Eastern Mennonite University in Harrisonburg, VA.
Moore spent two decades based in Washington DC working as a director, producer and writer with Discovery Channel, National Geographic, PBS, ABC and other media outlets. Her 2007 independent film Wit, Will and Walls documents the history of desegregation in the Shenandoah Valley and has been used extensively to facilitate dialogue about race.
Moore is a PhD candidate in Continental and Rotinonhsyon:ni media philosophy with York University's Environmental and Urban Change program in Toronto.
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