Mohawk exhibit at UTM

In conjunction with the designation of 2019 as the United Nations International Year of Indigenous Languages, the Mississauga campus will be home to an exhibit this week on Kanien’kéha, or Mohawk. It will be in the CCT Atrium on Tuesday the 12th and Wednesday the 13th between 10 AM and 2 PM. Bring along your headphones to listen to the exhibit and samples of spoken Kanien’kéha, featuring Ryan DeCaire (faculty).

The exhibit is jointly hosted by the UTM Indigenous Centre, the Centre for Student Engagement, and the Equity and Diversity Office. It comes from the Indigenous Language Spots project, a collaboration between Hart House and Ciimaan/Kahuwe’yá/Qajaq Indigenous Language Initiative at the Centre for Indigenous Studies. Indigenous Language Spots is a series of audio recordings in made for the radio in early 2018, created to amplify exposure and attention to Indigenous languages and to inspire curiosity about Indigenous culture, history, and the importance of preserving and sustaining endangered languages.