Dec. 24, 2025
CBC Indigenous story on the podcast
Apisheesh is a monthly interview podcast where Omushkego (Swampy Cree) host Lenny Carpenter shares his journey to learn his Cree language through interviews with fluent speakers and other resources. Lenny aims to understand the words of his late mooshoom (grandfather) whose Cree stories are preserved in recordings.
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Jan. 15, 2026
Episode 5: Adrian Sutherland
In this episode, Lenny shares the Cree words for January, Happy New Year, and briefly discusses the Cree cycle of life. He talks about watching the Apple TV+ show Chief of War, a historical drama series featuring Indigenous H...
Dec. 24, 2025
CBC Indigenous story on the podcast
I was recently interviewed by CBC Indigenous and the story was published today, just in time for Christmas!See story here: https://www.cbc.ca/news/indigenous/apisheesh-cree-podcast-9.6994808Thanks to Candace Maracle and the CBC Indigenous team f…
Dec. 18, 2025
Episode 4: Greg Spence
Lenny describes his progress from reading and repeating Cree stories from a book (“atalohkana nesta tipacimowina or Cree Legends and Narratives: from the West Coast of James Bay”) and recordings. He also shares his venture in...
Nov. 17, 2025
Article in TimminsToday.com
Last week, I was interviewed by TimminsToday.com reporter Marissa Lentz-McGrath and the article was published over the weekend.The story covers how I discovering the recordings, coming up with the name Apisheesh, selecting my guests, and hopes for…
Nov. 12, 2025
Finding my mooshoom’s recordings
Undated photo of my mooshoom (grandfather) Alfred Carpenter.My family visited my grandparents a lot when I was growing up in Moosonee. We’d go there on Saturdays for radio bingo or stop by after church on Sundays. Other times, they watched o…
Nov. 7, 2025
CBC interview about Apisheesh
Wacheyek, I was recently interviewed by CBC Sudbury's Up North afternoon program about the podcast and the segment aired Nov. 7, 2025.Listen to the segment where I talk about finding my mooshoom's recordings, the animal sounds in my episode…
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About the Host
Lenny Carpenter
Host / Producer / Composer
Lenny is an Omushkego (Swampy Cree) writer, musician, and filmmaker based in Timmins, Ontario. A member of Attawapiskat First Nation, he grew up in the James Bay community of Moosonee before relocating to Timmins during his high school years. He has worked in media as a reporter/editor/publisher with Wawatay News, a reporter intern at CBC Thunder Bay, and the Indigenous Reporters Program manager at Journalists for Human Rights. He graduated from Confederation College's Film Production program in 2011. He was most recently a Gladue Writer and Gladue Manager with Nishnawbe Aski Legal Services.