Winter is Coming
4:05 min. - While children revelled in this new winter playground and hunters hunted for everyone, some had more free time and built their toboggan. Winter was not far off.
Transcription
Narrator - Then, one fine morning, it happened. The lake froze over, and the children realized that they could walk on the water. Everything became so much easier. On evenings when the moon was full we gathered together to listen to the lake moan as it froze. While the children played in this new setting and I hunted for everyone, my father had more free time to make his toboggan. Winter was not far away.
Antoine Mark - After killing the caribou, we took everything but the intestines. We put the meat and even the antlers on the toboggan, and returned to the camp. Sometimes it was an enormous load.
Music - Rodrigue Fontaine, Bill St-Onge, Luc Bacon
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Winter is Coming
4:05 min
- innineu
- spruce grouse
- kakusseshiu-patshuianitshuap
- prospector’s tent
- kusseupu
- to fish
- 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
- takutashtakanua nakatuashuna
- we place packets of food on the cache
- tapakuaineueu
- he catches a partridge in the snare
- tashtuikanitshuap
- teepee
- teshipitakan
- a cache
- teshipitakannu e tutak
- he places fir branches on top of the cache
- tshishtashkatshikana
- tent poles
- uinamesheu
- she cleans the fish
- uishkuashameshenanu
- they smoke the fish
- ushkuai akunaikatshenanu nakatuashun
- the food packets are covered in birch bark
- utapia unakuanikashu
- he uses roots to make a snare
- utapiukatiapi
- root
- utapiukatiapia makupitakatsheu nenu utipatshipishikan
- he uses roots to tie the dried meat of an entire caribou into a bark container
- Fall
- Fall
- Fall
- Fall
- Winter
- Spring
- Spring
- Spring
- Summer
- Summer
- Summer
- Summer
- Fall
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