Admissions Test

Prospective students must pass an admission test to be eligible for admission.


Applicants are required to know how to translate the following list of forty words, from English-to-Kanyen’kéha and Kanyen’kéha-to-English. The test is oral, not written. Applicants must receive a score of 100% to pass the test and be eligible for admission. They must answer all questions correctly and immediately.

 

Study Tips


It will be noted that the list has three sets of words with different coloured prefixes. The words with red prefixes express the relationship of people to objects (someone-to-something). The words with blue prefixes express the relationship of  objects to people (something-to-someone). And the words with the purple prefixes express the relationship from person to person (someone-to-someone).


Study the red-prefix words first. Learn the first five - I, you, he, she, it. Once you know them inside-out, learn the second group of five. 


More to come...

 

wakenòn:we’s      it likes me

sanòn:we’s           it likes you

ronòn:we’s           it likes him

yakonòn:we’s       it likes her

yonòn:we’s           it likes it


yonkeninòn:we’s   it likes us two

seninòn:we’s         it likes you two

yonkwanòn:we’s    it likes us all

sewanòn:we’s        it likes you

rotinòn:we’s          it likes them (Ms)

yotinòn:we’s          it likes them (Fs)

kenòn:we’s           I like it

senòn:we’s          you like it

ranòn:we’s           he likes it

yenòn:we’s           she likes it

kanòn:we’s           it likes it


teninòn:we’s         you & I like it

yakeninòn:we’s    he/she & I like it

seninòn:we’s        you two like it

ninòn:we’s            two males like it

keninòn:we’s        two females like it


tewanòn:we’s       you all & I like it

yakwanòn:we’s    they & I like it

sewanòn:we’s      you all like it

ratinòn:we’s         they (males) like it

kontinòn:we’s       they (females) like it

konnòn:we’s        I like you           

rinòn:we’s            I like him

khenòn:we’s        I like her


rakenòn:we’s        he likes me

yanòn:we’s           he likes you

ronòn:we’s           he likes him

shakonòn:we’s     he likes her

takenòn:we’s         you like me           

etshenòn:we’s       you like him

shenòn:we’s          you like her


yonkenòn:we’s       she likes me

yesanòn:we’s         she likes you

ronwanòn:we’s       she likes him

yontatenòn:we’s     she likes her

Individual sound files will be added to the word list in the days to come.


A copy of the word list can be downloaded as a PDF document here.

Eligibility and Priorities

Onkwawenna’s goal is to strengthen the Mohawk Language at Grand River and elsewhere without regard to student ancestry. However, enrollment in the First-Year Program is limited. In the event that there are more applicants than places, priority will be given (in no particular order) to:

  1. *younger people;

  2. *people who have not taken the program before;

  3. *people who live at Grand River;

  4. *people with small children at home;

  5. *people who are active in the longhouse;

  6. *and people who will teach the language.


Contact the Office Administrator for information regarding programs, schedules, fees, testing, acreditation and eligibility. The e-mail address is: onkwawen@bellnet.ca. The telephone number is (519) 445-1250.