Tahohtharátye’ Joe Brant
Tahohtharátye’ Joe Brant sits with the Bear Clan, from Tyendinaga Mohawk Nation Territory. He is an Assistant Professor at the University of Toronto, cross-listed in the Department of Linguistics and Centre for Indigenous Studies. Tahohtharátye’ is an advanced second-language learner of Kanyen’kéha and has been an elementary, secondary, and post-secondary educator in his community. He has dedicated much of his adult life to Kanyen’kéha learning and revitalization in his family and community.
Areas of Interest
Recently, Tahohtharátye’ completed his Ph.D. in Indigenous Language Revitalization from the University of Victoria in a culminating dissertation titled: Tó: nya’teká:yen tsi entewà:ronke’ – Onkwehonwehnéha documentation for advanced adult Kanyen’kéha learning. In this work, he demonstrates a collaborative practitioner documentation approach to planning, implementing, analyzing, and disseminating first-language documentation designed for proficiency development in andragogy. Tahohtharátye’s research interests include first-language Kanyen’kéha speaker documentation, language documentation and description for learning, Indigenous language pedagogy, advanced/superior additional language proficiency attainment, and intergenerational Indigenous language transmission in the home.
Scholarship
Brant, T.W.J. (2023). Tó: nya’teká:yen tsi entewà:ronke’. [Doctoral Dissertation, University of Victoria] University of Victoria Libraries. https://hdl.handle.net/1828/15770
