Princess Daazhraii Johnson and the generation reclaiming Gwich'in - a podcast by Nia Tero

Princess Daazhraii Johnson (Neets'aii Gwich'in) is an Indigenous TV and film producer on a journey of learning, reclaiming, and revitalizing her ancestral language of Gwich’in, which is only spoken by a few hundred people. In this new episode of Seedcast, find out how Indigenous residential schools on Turtle Island contributed to this language crisis and how Princess is inspiring a whole new generation to be curious about Indigenous languages through her work as a screenwriter on the Peabody award-winning PBS Kids series Molly of Denali. Also, get a peek into the work Princess and fellow filmmaker Alisha Carlson are doing with Nia Tero’s Reciprocity Project. Hosted by Jessica Ramirez; produced by Kavita Pillay; edited by Jenny Asarnow.

Mentioned in this episode:

• Tanan Ch'at'oh (Gwich'in language immersion) 
• Dinjii Vadzaih Dhidlit: The Man Who Became a Caribou (bilingual book)

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