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We could call them what they called themselves, Wôpanâak(0). It would provide moral and spiritual support to their descendants, relatives, and foster cultures(
by mitchtbaum 11y ago
We could call them what they called themselves, Wôpanâak(0). It would provide moral and spiritual support to their descendants, relatives, and foster cultures(3) who revive their Algonquian language(1)(4). We can even find more ways to clean up our misconceptions and perceive humanity's many worlds more accurately(2). To their credit, that land supports a lot of life.
0: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wampanoag_people#Tisquantum_.28or_Squanto.29 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wampanoag_people#Tisquantum_.2...
1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Algonquian_languages https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Algonquian_languages
2: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exonym_and_endonym https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exonym_and_endonym
3: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cultural_appropriation https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cultural_appropriation
4: http://www.wlrp.org/ http://www.wlrp.org/ (some words below)
Pumpkin: Pôhpukun (ponh-pu-kun) = ‘grows forth round’
Moccasin: Mahkus (mah-kus) = ‘Covers the whole foot’
Moose: M8s (moos) = ‘moose’
Powwow: Pawâw (pa-waaw) = ‘s/he is healing/heals (someone)’
Massachusetts: Mâsach8sut (maa-sa-choo-sut) = Place of the foothill.
This was probably referring to the Blue Hills