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Apisheesh is a monthly interview podcast where Omushkego (Swampy Cree) host Lenny Carpenter shares his journey to learn his Cree language through interviews with fluent speakers and other resources. Lenny aims to understand the words of his late mooshoom (grandfather) whose Cree stories are preserved in audio recordings. Supported by the Indigenous Screen Office.
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every 42 days
Average audio length:
74 minutes
Guest interviews
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English
Canada
10 episodes
since May 18, 2025
episodic
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Adam Mack grew up in one of the northernmost communities in Ontario, near the Hudson Bay coast where polar bears wandered through the community. For high school, he relocated down to St. Catharines, one of the southernmost cities in the province. After resettling in Timmins and a stint working with…
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Kevin Brousseau’s interest in linguistics was sparked as a child when he browsed a list of Proto-Indo-European roots in a dictionary. A member of the Cree First Nation of Waswanipi in northern Quebec, Kevin went on to develop dictionaries of his own in the Cree language, including the Dictionary of…
If you grew up or lived on the James Bay area for the past 40 years, then you’ve heard the voice of Jules Spence on the radio. And if you’ve been to a community gathering in the region that featured live music, chances are you’ve also heard his guitar playing as he belts out classic rock tunes.&nbs…
In 2014, Moose Cree First Nation launched the first edition of the Dictionary of Moose Cree which featured 6,000 Cree to English entries in the community’s unique L-dialect. The dictionary now has more than 34,000 Cree entries after the fourth edition was launched in December. The dictionary’s deve…
In this episode, Lenny shares the Cree words for January, Happy New Year, and briefly discusses the Cree cycle of life. He talks about watching the Apple TV+ show Chief of War, a historical drama series featuring Indigenous Hawaiians before colonization and how they speak Ōlelo Hawaiʻi, the Indigen…
Lenny describes his progress from reading and repeating Cree stories from a book (“atalohkana nesta tipacimowina or Cree Legends and Narratives: from the West Coast of James Bay”) and recordings. He also shares his venture into learning linguistics and research into language learning methods. …
In this episode, host Lenny Carpenter announces that the podcast now has a website: https://www.apisheeshpodcast.ca/ where listeners can listen to and share the episodes, read bios, sign up for a newsletter, and find links to all of platforms and socials. He'll also be writing blogs. Listeners can …
It’s been a minute but we're back with Episode 2. In this episode, host Lenny Carpenter talks about the podcast logo and its design, how he chose “Apisheesh” for the name, and his Cree language learning progress.
He chats with guest Jocelyn Cheechoo, who is a Cree language learner from Moose …
Host Lenny Carpenter introduces himself and his plan to learn Cree so he can understand his late mooshoom (grandfather)'s telling of legends in audio recordings. He speaks with Angela Shisheesh, an elder, Cree translator and residential survivor. She shares her journey to becoming a translator, con…
Omushkego (Swampy Cree) host Lenny Carpenter introduces Apisheesh, a monthly interview podcast where he documents his journey to learn Cree after he discovers recordings of his late mooshoom (grandfather).
Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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