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- Host Christine Genier is a citizen of the Ta’an Kwach’an Council. Christine speaks with Tina Jules of the Yukon Native Language Centre and why language learning is vital to their emotional, spiritual, and physical well-being.
- Christine visits with Gwichi’in language speaker Brandon Kikyvichik about how their language is part of the Athabaskan family of languages and the different dialects within each language group, and sub-dialects or regional dialects within the major ones. Christine also vistis with Bobbi Rose Koe about her adventure tourism company and how she wraps it in culture.
- Jolenda Benjamin is a teacher, a mother, and a keeper of the Upper Tanana language. Christine and Jolenda discuss how the U.S./Canada border split up nations or tribes but how the language has remained on both sides of the borders.
- Christine sits down with musician Bria Rose, a Tahltan citizin. She shares her love of music, culture and language and performs a drum song.
- Lenita Alatini is a Southern Tutchone speaker and language teacher. Host Christine Genier visits Lenita in her home in Burwash, Yukon. Lenita shares how she is passing on the language while they talk in both the Dän k'é Kwinjé and English.
- Host Christine Genier introduces us to her auntie, Nakhela Hazel Bunbury. Auntie, as Christine calls her, is a language teacher, an Elder, and family matriarch. Auntie is well-known for her language work, advocacy and teaching.