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BRINANCH 4: (questions and answers)

 

Question 4

tαn alatste? 
What color is it? 

 

mkasewíkən  
it is black (ember) 

anikəwátste  
it is blue (blue mushroom) 

mskíhkəwatste  
it is green (grass) 

mkʷikən  
it is red 

wisάwikən  
it is yellow 

tohpkʷanəčitte  
it is brown (earth, soil) 

wάpikən  
it is white 

sonapəčitte  
it is purple (jam) 

skʷàməčitte  
it is pink (salmon) 

mαlatste  
it is gray 

álenčitte 
it is orange (English loan word)


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July 21, 1857

Author and Transendentalist Henry David Thoreau comes to Indian Island and hires Joe Polis for a journey to Moosehead Lake, the West Branch of Penobscot, the Allagash, East Branch of Penobscot, and then back down the main branch of the Penobscot River.