Visit to the Land
Canoes with Sails
5:18 min. - When the wind is favourable and we’re on a large lake, we attach the canoes two by two and raise the sails.
Transcription
Pierre Michel - I was kupaniesh. I accompanied a hunter. He showed me how he did things. How to interpret tracks, set a trap, stretch a skin. How to understand the prey. I listened to what he said, watched what he did. I worked. He knew his territory. I was both helper and pupil. I took care of the camp. We never ran out of wood. There was always water. The hunter could send his kupaniesh. That's how I learned.
Music - Philippe Mckenzie
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25 Related words or expressions
- amipushu
- quiet water surface
- ka tshimanakaniht kukushuakanashkuat
- place where the poles have been left
- kakatshat
- multi-leveled portage
- kapatakan-meshkanau
- portage path
- kapatauat
- they’re portaging
- kassekau
- fall
- kusseupu
- to fish
- manukashunanu
- they set up the camp
- matapeshtau
- he finishes portaging
- minishtiku
- island
- nakatshun
- at the foot of the rapids
- naneu
- shore
- natai-kukushu
- going upriver using a pole
- nutinakamishtin
- the breeze has made small ripples on the lake
- pakauat
- they disembark from the canoe
- paushtiku
- rapids
- pimashu
- he moves with the wind
- piutamu
- he descends the rapids in a canoe
- takuaitsheu
- she directs the canoe
- tshiashi-nikuashkan
- ancient cemetary
- uanikamuat
- getting into the canoe
- uauakashkuaimuat
- they row along a winding waterway
- uiushuat
- they carry baggage on their backs
- ushkatakau
- brush
- utakuai-papamishkauat
- they go out in the canoe in the evening
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