Our Storytellers

03/05/2025

Hello Relatives!

We're going to be posting podcast every 2 weeks until further notice.

Not only will this change help Jimbo and I have more of a life, but it's also going to help us create higher quality content.

Thank you so much to everyone for supporting the podcast. We look forward to posting this week's podcast with Rebecca Watt!

All my relations,
Riel and Jimbo

02/19/2025

"She always asserted the water walks were aa ceremony"

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02/05/2025

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02/03/2025

Hello relatives,

There won’t be an episode our Our Storytellers this week! We’re taking a week off to align our marketing and posting schedules. (And taking some rest time)

We’ll be back to posting a familiar face next Sunday.

All the best,
Riel and Jim

12/03/2024

Check out this amazing webseries!

Kokum Dorothy shares cultural stories from her past with her inquisitive friend, Dot. The Cree language she uses in her stories activates her memories and im...

10/07/2024

Attention fluent Cree speakers in the lower mainland of BC. Our Storytellers may have a paid position opening up for you.

A lot of great work has been done in language preservation. However, Our Storytellers is looking to bring access to Nehiyawewin in a conversational format to any who are seeking to learn it.

The contract would entail once a week lessons, in which I come to you in person with our filming team. We would cover vocabulary and practice conversations. Week after week.

Please let me know if you or someone you know would be interested in teaching. I recognize I live in an area with different languages, however Nehiyawewin is what my ancestors spoke, so I'll learn that first.

Any leads help!

05/21/2024

Hello friends and family,

Please see the press release below from Our Storytellers. It is with a heavy heart that we must announce that we lost access to camera equipment.

Please read the press release. We have a gofundme you can donate to here if you believe in our mission.

https://www.gofundme.com/f/help-save-the-stories

Please share if you can.

05/10/2024

On this weekend's episode, we're joined by Mohawk Artist and Filmmaker, Shelley Niro.

Shelley recently released a new movie called Café Daughter, about a young Chinese-Cree named Yvette Wong as she embraces her heritage and builds towards her dream of becoming a doctor in 1960s Saskatchewan. The film is based the true story of Dr. Lillian Eva Quan Dyck.

Shelley also has an international art retrospective exhibition that's touring art galleries.

We discuss filmmaking and storytelling on this weekend's episode of Our Storytellers.

03/03/2024

New Episode Alert! This one is a must watch!

Please welcome Marie Smallboy to the podcast. We talk language, ceremony, natural law and much more.

Have a great day!

Love Riel

In this episode of Our Storytellers, we’re joined by Marie Smallboy.Marie is nêhiyaw from Maskwacis, which is located in what people today call Alberta. Mari...

02/28/2024

My hands go up to all the people who are teaching and learning the language currently. My hands go up to the children that are learning from their grandparents.

Does anyone know someone who has successfully learnt their language fluently, while having English or French being their first language? If so, please contact me because I think I really need to interview that person.

After 10 episodes of the podcast, I'm coming to the dire and urgent epiphany that if the language is gone, we're going to lose SO MUCH of our ways. There is so much knowledge in the languages that we can gain access to if we just learn it.

As someone who embraces technology, I think that there will be development in AI that will help "translate" our languages, but I do not foresee AI understanding our languages like the old ones do.

Please tell me because I am ignorant and have no clue. And I barely know a lick of my language. Please tell me, is our current solution enough? Do we need to find a better solution? Hiy-hiy