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Kokum and Dot: a new Indigenous-themed kids show created by member of Muskoday First Nation [Video]

A short pilot of the potential kids show has been filmed and published for the public to see, which you can watch below.

Originally moving to Vancouver as a film student, Johnson has been on the West Coast for the last decade working in the production industry, and she’s tried in the past to get some Indigenous-themed projects in the works.

This is the first time where she feels like it’s coming together, and she’s hoping with some viewing support, her new show will be able to catch on. The idea from the show came from an online class Johnson took to learn the Cree language during the pandemic and what she described as a flamboyant instructor.

“I was lucky enough to be able to take an online Cree language course and that was with Kokum Dorothy Visser. She’s from Treaty Six territory. So we were just doing Cree online …

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