Learn Through Listening

Learn Wolastoqey by listening. Tap any word to hear it, spoken by our Elders and knowledge keepers, aligned word by word.

Mihqitahsuwakon · Act of Remembrance

0:59 · Listen word by word
Wolastoqey translation: Opolahsomuwehs (2012). English text adapted from the fourth stanza of “For the Fallen” by Laurence Binyon (1914), traditionally recited as the Act of Remembrance or Ode of Remembrance. This WLCC bilingual teaching recording follows the performed 2012 wording, including the repeated response and “Askomiw. / Forever.”, not the revised 2025 wording.
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Flandersuwihkuk Pemskutek · In Flanders Fields

2:30 · Listen word by word
Original English poem by John McCrae. Wolastoqey translation by Elder Charles Solomon (Wimpy), a Second World War veteran. Transliterated and narrated by Opolahsomuwehs. This project uses the WLCC teaching recording and its 2012 text, not the revised 2025 translation. Automatic word timing is a draft for listen-through review.
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NBIF Land Acknowledgement

0:51 · Listen word by word
Recorded by Opolahsomuwehs (Imelda Perley) for the New Brunswick Innovation Foundation, September 2026. Wolastoqey first, then English.
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Welcome Ceremony - Dolores

1:48 · Listen word by word
Dolores's territorial welcome. Wolastoqey text approved by Opolahsomuwehs, July 2026.
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Skicinuwimiyane

2:24 · Listen word by word
This is how to smudge for the language.
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Spi Wolam

1:38 · Listen word by word
A pledge for Chief and Council.
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