The Oh, um, oh, oh, oh,

oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, Kuyepheephe. Nahuapi, Naha Iuha,

Jante Washtea, Nape Chiuzeape.

My name is Leni Coi, and my relatives I shake your hands with good feelings in my heart. Today we're going to be

learning a little bit more about one of our elders who's no longer with us, but this is part of a

project that is much larger. So let me explain. This is the second in a series of

podcasts devoted to hashtag native reads. It's a collaboration effort between the Oak Lake Writers Society and First Nation

Institute.

Oak Lake Writers Society is a Tribal Writers Organization with more than 30 Ochetti Shakoi writers and scholars

and First Nations Institute does fine work all on behalf of our indigenous

nations. The goal of this collaboration is to nurture and strengthen the Ochetti-Shakoue literacy.

That which has existed for centuries, but is relatively inaccessible to our communities.

As a result of these colonization projects and programs in our communities, we have had

large of state and federal government projects and communities that have many relatively difficult

for us to have access to much of our own literature.

But the other influence being the efforts of the

Christian church systems and all of it on the purpose of acculturing our people.

Many of the books that are part of the Native Reed's top 10 list from a survey given of the people who have participated

in a survey.

Many of those are not on public library and public and private libraries.

Some of them are out of print and some of them are not available. So that's one of the reasons why we

want to revive this Chekhi Shakoi authors and the works that they had done over the long history of published works by them,

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