Jeremy Dutcher
Kirk Lisaj/Courtesy of the artist
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Kirk Lisaj/Courtesy of the artist
Jeremy Dutcher
Kirk Lisaj/Courtesy of the artist
- “Skicinuwihkuk”
- “Mehcinut”
- “Ancestors Too Younger”
- “Pomawsuwinuwok Wonakiyawolotuwok”
A language is extra than simply phrases. It’s the way you expertise and outline the world round you. It carries experiences, tales and a shared historical past. When a language stops being spoken — when it dies out — one thing is misplaced.
Canadian Indigenous musician Jeremy Dutcher is a Wolastoqiyik member of the Tobique First Nation, and he has made it his mission to protect the language of his folks: an endangered tongue known as Wolastoqey.
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His debut album, written solely in Wolastoqey, received Canada’s Polaris Prize in 2018. Late final yr, Dutcher returned along with his sophomore album, Motewolonuwok.
On this session, Dutcher talks about why he determined to share songs in English for the primary time on Motewolonuwok; about how he discovered Wolastoqey; and in regards to the pleasure that he finds in cultural alternate.
This episode of World Cafe was produced and edited by Miguel Perez. Our senior producer is Kimberly Junod and our engineer is Chris Williams. Our programming and reserving coordinator is Chelsea Johnson and our line producer is Will Loftus.
