Glossary : Food
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- anauakataitsheu
- she covers her bread in sand
1 - apuanashku
- spit
- atan
- smooth rock
- atsheu
- he crushes the bones with a mortar and pestle
- innu-pakueshikan
- bannock
- innu-pakueshikanitsheu
- she prepares bannock
- ishkuassekatueu
- he covers (it) with coals
- kashkashkueu upakushikanim
- she scrapes her bread
- kuapitsheu
- he draws water
- mamakuneu pakueshikana
- she kneads the bread
- mamatishakanua uina
- they cut the marrow into slices
- manaipimeu
- skim the fat from the top of the bone broth
- minuassukaimu upimim
- we mix the fat with the marrow slices
- minuauakaimu
- make an indentation for the bread
- mitshishunanu
- they eat
- mushkami
- bone broth
- nipishaputshenanu
- we make tea
- nutapuenanu
- skim the bone broth
- panishauenanu
- they cut the meat in large, thin slices
- pashamesheu
- he dries the fish
- pashauenanu uiash
- they hang the meat to dry it
- pashtatashkuaikanu mak massekushkamiku ashtakanu tshetshi mamuashkatik
- we place wooden blocks and moss on top of it so it will all freeze together
- patakueu
- he burns off the porcupine's quills and hair
- patishipeu
- burn off duck down
- shakapuesseu
- goose roasted on a stick
- shakapueumishkueu
- beaver roasted on a stick
- shashassikuashaueu
- he fries
- shiutau uiashinu
- he salts the sliced meat
- takutashtakanua nakatuashuna
- we place packets of food on the cache
- teshipitakan
- a cache
- teshipitakannu e tutak
- he places fir branches on top of the cache
- tshinakueu
- he removes the porcupine’s intestines
- tshineshkan
- ice chisel
- tshishaussaueu
- he heats the sand
- tshishtai-shipeu
- he roasts duck meat
- tshishtaimu uiashinu
- he grills meat on a stick
- tshissakanua uina
- we cook the bone marrow slices
- uikutaimu uina
- he extracts the bone marrow
- uina
- marrow
- uishkuashameshenanu
- they smoke the fish
- umatatuiaku
- porcupine intestines
- ushakanana
- boiled bones
- ushikaneu
- he boils the powdered bones
- ushkan
- bone
- ushkan-atiku
- caribou bones not used in the fat-making process
- ushkuai akunaikatshenanu nakatuashun
- the food packets are covered in birch bark
- utapiukatiapia makupitakatsheu nenu utipatshipishikan
- he uses roots to tie the dried meat of an entire caribou into a bark container
- utapuinakan
- bark container
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