‘Just Us’
(We’re still putting this page together… Miigwech for being patient with us.)
Facilitating Cultural Awareness with Biigtigong’s Dialect
In the Summer of 2018… {additional text to appear here}
‘Just Us’ Translations
(1) door
(2) mathematics
(3) science
(4) locker/lockers
(5) homework
(6a) history (in general)
(6b) history of (animate) them
(6c) history of (inanimate) something
(7) fire
(8) fire keeper
(9) art
(10a) [You(singular)] listen!
(10b) [You(plural)] listen!
(10c) Let’s listen!
(11) geography
(12a) [You(singular)] come in!
(12b) [You(plural)] come in!
(13a) Welcome to here, [you(singular)].
(13b) Welcome to here, [you(plural)].
(14) tobacco
(15) reception
(16) [Nishnaabe] elder
(17) [school] principal
(18) school principal’s office
(19) regalia
(20) library
(21) librarian
(22) pow-wow, dance
(23a) school
(23b) school [building]
(24) gym
(25) student
(26a) culture room
(26b) Nishnaabe-culture room
(27) teacher
(28) washroom, bathroom
(29) smudges [people], smudges [things]
(30) cafeteria
(31) skips class
(32) kitchen
(33) attendance office
(34) office