{"id":164315,"date":"2023-06-29T16:32:19","date_gmt":"2023-06-29T20:32:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/?p=164315"},"modified":"2023-06-30T13:34:58","modified_gmt":"2023-06-30T17:34:58","slug":"local-singer-songwriter-hopes-to-revive-indigenous-language-with-new-album","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/local-singer-songwriter-hopes-to-revive-indigenous-language-with-new-album\/","title":{"rendered":"Local singer, songwriter hopes to revive Indigenous language with new album"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Singer, songwriter Saltwater Hank (Jeremy Pahl) is releasing a Sm'\u00e1lgyax only album titled \u201cGal\u2019uunx wil lu Holtga\u201d this weekend.<\/p>\n<p>The goal with the album is to inspire Ts\u2019msyen people and others to learn understand and speak their own language. Pahl says there there currently no first generation Sm'\u00e1lgyax speakers left under the age of 60.<\/p>\n<p>Pahl is from Kxeen (Prince Rupert) and, ancestrally, has ties to Txalgiiw (Hartly Bay) and Maxlaxaala (Metlakatla), something that comes through in his writing in his songs.<\/p>\n<p>Pahl also works in the archives of the Ts\u2019msyen Nation: he has fully immersed himself in the traditional language by studying and teaching the language to others.<\/p>\n<p>A song titled \u201cNii Wila waalt\u201d from the album has already been released on all streaming platforms, with the remainder of the album to be released on Canada Day.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Listen to the CFNR interview with Jeremy Pahl below:<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Singer, songwriter Saltwater Hank (Jeremy Pahl) is releasing a Sm&#8217;\u00e1lgyax only album titled \u201cGal\u2019uunx wil lu Holtga\u201d this weekend. The goal with the album is to inspire Ts\u2019msyen people and others to learn understand and speak their own language. Pahl says there there currently no first generation Sm&#8217;\u00e1lgyax speakers left under the age of 60.&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":138,"featured_media":164341,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[57,219,16830],"tags":[979,488,758,2150,980,741,23382],"radio":[13054],"origine":[280,13049,231],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/164315"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/138"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=164315"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/164315\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":164449,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/164315\/revisions\/164449"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/164341"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=164315"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=164315"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=164315"},{"taxonomy":"radio","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/radio?post=164315"},{"taxonomy":"origine","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/origine?post=164315"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}