By the Rapids
Mohawk-language animated series about teen life in a small Native community.
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By the Rapids is a Mohawk-language animated series that ran on APTN from 2008 to 2012. It follows teenager Cory Littlehorn, whose family relocates from Toronto to the small Native community of his parents’ youth, exploring small-town life through humor. Alongside Wapos Bay, it was one of Canada’s first Indigenous animated shows.
Quick Facts
- Original network
- Aboriginal Peoples Television Network (APTN)
- Original run
- 2008 to 2012
- Language
- Mohawk
- Creator
- Joseph Lazare
- Main character
- Cory Littlehorn
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Characters
Joseph Lazare created the series and voiced Cory, Regis (Cory's uncle), Kim, and Ado Darho. Kaniehtiio Horn voiced Karen (Cory's cousin) and Oneida. Other voice actors include Waneek Horn Miller, A1T2, and the Mighty 5 Nations (M5N): Mohawk (a guy who curls a dumbbell, totem Eagle), Oneida (girl with brown hair, 3 feathers, no purple shawl, heels), Onondaga (guy), Seneca (girl with black hair, 1 feather, glasses, purple headband, shoots arrows; initiates Super Mighty Warrior), Kayuga (guy), and Tuscarora (the uncounted towel boy with glasses; Sene is afraid he will be hurt; totem Rock which he can become as the SMW head; becomes dispatcher after secretly helping).
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Sources
Compiled from Wikipedia and the sources listed below. Text from Wikipedia is available under CC BY-SA 4.0; this entry is adapted from it.
- Wikipedia: By the Rapids (CC BY-SA 4.0).
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