Old Montagnais is the period in the history of the Innu-aimun language preceding its current form. There are several sound changes that Old Montagnais...
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Innu (redirect from Montagnais and Naskapi)
which changed over time from Old Montagnais to Innu-aimun (popularly known since the French colonial era as Montagnais), is spoken throughout Nitassinan...
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Innu-aimun (redirect from Montagnais language)
or Montagnais is an Algonquian language spoken by over 10,000 Innu in Labrador and Quebec in Eastern Canada. It is a member of the Cree–Montagnais–Naskapi...
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The Montagnais, or Innu, are a First Nation in Canada. Look up Montagnais in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Montagnais (meaning mountaineers in French)...
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Cree language (redirect from Cree-Montagnais-Naskapi dialect continuum)
nehlueun (Western Montagnais, Piyekwâkamî dialect) ilnu-Aimûn (Western Montagnais, Betsiamites dialect) innu-Aimûn (Eastern Montagnais) Cree is believed...
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language bemidewiskaawed "greasy-bodied [fish]". Eskimo (definition) From Old Montagnais aiachkimeou ([aːjast͡ʃimeːw]; modern ayassimēw), meaning "snowshoe-netter"...
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Cree (section Montagnais)
Naskapi are still caribou hunters and more nomadic than many of the Montagnais. The Montagnais have more settlements. The total population of the two groups...
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de Natashquan, Montagnais of Natashquan or Nutashkuan Innu First Nation) in Nutashkuan Montagnais de Pakua Shipi in Pakuashipi Montagnais de Unamen Shipu...
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Pseudognaphalium obtusifolium (section Montagnais)
leaf smoke is blown into the nostrils of people who have fainted. The Montagnais use a decoction of the plant for coughing and tuberculosis. The Rappahannock...
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contrast to their Montagnais cousins who are for the most part Roman Catholic, speaking the native language and French. The Montagnais are far more numerous...
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present-day New York. In 1570, the Algonquins formed an alliance with the Innu (Montagnais) to the east, whose territory extended to the ocean. Culturally, Omàmìwininì...
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Begourat, chief of the Montagnais at Tadoussac, in which positive relationships were established between the French and the many Montagnais gathered there, with...
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prefix m- instead of the definite third-person prefix w-) mīciwāhp in Montagnais (with the indefinite prefix m- instead of the definite third-person prefix...
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wolverine is referred to as carcajou, borrowed from the Innu-aimun or Montagnais kuàkuàtsheu. However, in France, the wolverine's name is glouton (glutton)...
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Southern East Cree Atikamekw (r-dialect) Western Montagnais (l-dialect) Innu-aimun or Eastern Montagnais (n-dialect) Naskapi (y-dialect) Various Cree languages...
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Quebec Agreement was signed. Discussions have been underway with the Montagnais of the Côte-Nord and Saguenay–Lac-Saint-Jean for the potential creation...
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Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin; Bank, Sebastian (2022-05-24). "Cree-Montagnais-Naskapi". Glottolog. Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology...
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Bonne-Espérance, Quebec (section Old Fort)
about 9,000 years ago. When the French met the Innu they called them Montagnais, because of the hilly land they lived on, however since 1990 the preferred...
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in the Gulf of St. Lawrence. The name may have been derived from the Montagnais words "Maissimeu Assi" (meaning Mi'kmaq Land), and it is today the namesake...
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recent times, discussions have been underway for several years with the Montagnais of the Côte-Nord and Saguenay–Lac-Saint-Jean for the potential creation...
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linguist Ives Goddard, etymologically the word derives from the Innu-aimun (Montagnais) word ayas̆kimew, meaning "a person who laces a snowshoe", and is related...
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in ka (thousands) or Ma (millions) of years. Less than ten thousand years old, and with a diameter of 100 m (330 ft) or more. The EID lists fewer than...
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Winnipeg Evening Tribune, Mr. J. J. Moncrief, writing under the pen name "Old Timer," and Osborne Scott expressed their concerns about the survival of...
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particularly Montagnais people, whose language he learned with proficiency. In the spring of 1642, Jean de Quen was entrusted with the Montagnais mission,...
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The group meets with a band of Montagnais, First Nations people who have never seen Frenchmen before. The Montagnais shaman, Mestigoit, is suspicious...
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Saguenay and the Chicoutimi rivers had been used as waterways by the Montagnais tribes for centuries. The name Chicoutimi derives from the Innu for 'the...
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Jargon, Chickasaw-Chocaw Trade Language, Yamá) Montagnais Pidgin Basque (also known as Pidgin Basque-Montagnais) Nootka Jargon (spoken during the 18th–19th...
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the Cree and Montagnais of James Bay" (1938) An Analysis of Coastal Algonquian Culture (1939) "The Shaking-Tent Rite among the Montagnais of James Bay"...
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considered a dialect of the Cree-Montagnais language or a dialect of the Cree language that is distinct from the Montagnais language. Plains Cree is one of...
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France, a report entitled Savages (relation of his stay in a tribe of Montagnais near Tadoussac). Champlain needed to report his findings to Henry IV....
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