In this episode of First Words, musician Logan Staats teaches you how to offer a greeting, say thank you and tell someone you love them in the Mohawk language.
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Logan Staats is a Mohawk musician from Six Nations of the Grand River Territory in Ontario. (CBC, Jorden Todish/Supplied)
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First Words is a weekly podcast focused on Indigenous languages. Each week, we welcome a new guest into the hosting chair to teach us a few words in their language.
Logan Staats is a Mohawk musician from Six Nations of the Grand River Territory in Ontario.
Armed with a guitar and harmonica, Staats pours all the emotion he feels into his unique voice. He's shared the stage with Buffy Sainte-Marie, Mumford and Sons and Keith Secola.
Logan Staats in studio recording his single, The Lucky Ones. (Courtesy of CTV)
His hit single, The Lucky Ones, shot to the top of the charts after winning the first episode of CTV's The Launch, a TV reality show that gives Canadian singers a national platform.
Staats isn't fluent in the language, but has clear memories of growing up with its presence.
"I remember talking to my mother and saying a word in Mohawk, I remember how that made me feel. Every time I say one of these words, it brings me back to that moment when I first started experiencing the language and the culture," he said.
