Beaver
4:49 min. - Sometimes large expanses have been flooded by beavers. In that case, we visit by canoe.
Transcription
Brian Bellefleur -I was six. My father and I had set up camp. He showed me how to take care of a fire. Then he left to hunt moose. I stayed alone at the camp. I kept the fire going. I ate bread, lots of bread. He didn't come back. When night fell, I was scared. The next day, I gathered wood and fed the fire. I hoped for his return. I was hungry. At the end of the day, I thought, "Nothing happened yesterday, why should anything happen to me?" I fell asleep and didn't have bad dreams. My father came back in the morning. We ate meat. I saw my father build a canoe. It was the year they cleared the portages. I was nine. I was with them on the trip. But I never thought I would make canoes. That year, David, Benoît and myself helped him make a new canoe. My father wanted to make a second one and we decided to make some more. We made about 15. They float well. They're light and hold lots of luggage.
Music - Philippe Mckenzie
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Beaver
4:49 min
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- 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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