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BRINANCH 4: (questions and answers)

 

Question 4

tαn alatste? 
What color is it? 

 

mkasewíkən  
it is black (ember) 

anikəwátste  
it is blue (blue mushroom) 

mskíhkəwatste  
it is green (grass) 

mkʷikən  
it is red 

wisάwikən  
it is yellow 

tohpkʷanəčitte  
it is brown (earth, soil) 

wάpikən  
it is white 

sonapəčitte  
it is purple (jam) 

skʷàməčitte  
it is pink (salmon) 

mαlatste  
it is gray 

álenčitte 
it is orange (English loan word)


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April 7, 1604

French cartographer Samuel de Champlain leaves from France with a French nobleman, Pierre Du Gua De Monts, for Maine. They entered the Bay of Fundy by May, and later Champlain would meet Penobscot Chief Bashabez at the mouth of the Kenduskeag Stream on the Penobscot River.