Indigenous Poetics in Canada by Neal McLeod

Author:Neal McLeod
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Wilfrid Laurier University Press
Published: 2014-01-23T16:00:00+00:00

Glossary

aadizookaanan: sacred stories

aandeg(ag): crows

aki: land

anangoonhsag: stars, constellations

Anishinaabe(g): the name of the Indigenous Nation who consider the Great Lakes Region home after migration from the Atlantic Coast; there are multiple translations for this word; however, my understanding is “the good being” or “the good beings”; the Anishinaabeg Nation is made up of the Ojibway, Odawa, Pottawatomi, and Mississaugii.

Anishinaabe’aadiziwin: Anishinaabe culture

Anishinaabemowin: Anishinaabe language

Anishinaabewiziwin: all the elements that make up Anishinaabe life

asemaa: tobacco used as medicine in ceremony; in this case reference to petition spirits and give thanks to the spirits and gizhewe manidoo (the great, kind mystery; the Creator)

biboon: winter

biindigenh: come in

biskaabiiyin: returning to my Self

dibaadjimowin: the art of telling a personal story

Gichi Gamigoong: the Great Lakes

giigoonhsag: fish (pl.)

giikendaasowin: the art of knowing, research

goon: snow (on the ground)

ikawe: she is woman

ininaatig(ag): man tree(s), maple tree(s)

iskigamizigan(ing): the place where sap is boiled, the sugar bush at the time of boiling sap

ishkode: fire

maadjiimaadiziwin: moving life, connected, through the generations

maashkikimakwe: Mother Earth

manidoowin: the art of being with spirit; ceremony

manidooyag: spirits

manoomin: rice

Match-e-be-nash-wish: is the name of Pottawatomi community and is formerly known as powerful bird rises or leading bird of strength; it has local community meanings as well that refer to the veracity of the People and also refers to the Crane Clan, a predominant clan in the area.

Michi Saagii: one of the Nations within the Anishinaabeg Nation; refers to the people who live at the mouth of rivers

miijim: food

miinawaa: and

minobimaadizwin: the art of living the good life

Nogojowanong: where the river meets the lake; river mouth; Mississaugi Anishinaabeg place name, which is now popularly known as Peterborough, Ontario

odjig: fisher

ogimaa: chief, leader

Ojibway: one of the Nations within the Anishinaabeg Nation

paawaanhjige(goon): dream(s)

pane shenaa: forever and ever; this is a phrase that comes from the Match-e-be-nash-she-wish Pottawatomi

Pottawatomi: the keepers of the fire; a Nation within the Anishinaabeg Nation

waaseyaa’sin: glowing rock

w’dinawemag: our relatives

wiin: our

wiishkaabaaboo: maple sap

ziigamide: maple syrup

ziigwan(ing): late spring; in the spring

ziinzaabaakwad: maple sugar

ziisaabaakodenibi: maple sap, sugar water (earlier form in learning)

ziisbaakodeaboo: maple sap, sugar water (earlier form in my learning)

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