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CHAPTER SIX:

FAMILY LANGUAGE

 

pone iyo  
place it here


ni alihato  
do it that way


wisawhto  
put it away


wisawahton  
I put it away


wihkʷene 
take it 


pekihton  
clean it


kestakəna  
I wash him (AN clothing) 


nəkestakənəmən
I wash it (INAN clothing)


 

April 7, 1604

French cartographer Samuel de Champlain leaves from France with a French nobleman, Pierre Du Gua De Monts, for Maine. They entered the Bay of Fundy by May, and later Champlain would meet Penobscot Chief Bashabez at the mouth of the Kenduskeag Stream on the Penobscot River.