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affirming the land and all of our relations being in place: wantastegok - brattleboro tali sokwakik, wôbanakiak homelands (vermont) atowi.org ibitta wlidaha, only be goodhearted!
mskodalek wlôgwiwi
the meadows in the evening
natami adebakwa pskwasawôn kikonek, chakwa
first bean flower in the garden, this morning
ôpkweskak - solomon’s seal
“what is jointed”
(polygonatum biflorum)
sazôbakwhôzik - boneset
"it goes through the leaf"
(eupatorium perfoliatum)
Ôwdi kpiwik - forest trail
28.07.2025 18:00 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
mamijôla - “always eating with tongue one”
a [monarch] butterfly (danaus plexippus)
mamaska - a toad
american toad (anaxyrus americana)
pagimenal - "[hard to] smash nuts"
bitternut/yellowbud hickory (carya cordiformis)
pikwôganisal - “little horns”
american honeysuckle (lonicera canadensis)
pskwasawônisegweskimen - “opening one + broken up berry”
flowering raspberry (rubus odoratus)
kchipenak - "great edible root"
canada lily (lilium canadense)
kskimokas - "numb maker"
slender blue flag (iris prismatica)
nisipskwatawa - "twin/two flower" - english: twinflower
(linnaea borealis)
wlôwigen wôwaniwalaga- "it is a blue eggshell"
26.06.2025 12:20 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
pidhinbaga kwahliwi oniganek - "inlet near the carrying place" - aləwáhkikakti - "gray seal place"/vinalhaven, penobscot bay
24.06.2025 14:18 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
azibis - milkweed - “little sheep” in reference to the down of the seed pods to come
(asclepias syriaca)
topoihla - bunchberry - “white frost”
(cornus canadensis)
wakwôdes - "shut in person" - snail, on a morning foray
16.06.2025 14:01 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
mskikoiminkas - little grass berry (strawberry) maker moon
14.06.2025 12:20 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
mkazasaskibimen - black elderberry
(sambucus nigra)
mosílalo (penobscot - moose tongue) > bluebead lily, clintonia borealis
in western abenaki, mozilalo is used for dogtooth violet, erythronium americanum > perhaps these may be interchanged
ahamoakesen ala migwenakesen
hen’s moccasin or feather moccasin
abenaki have not retained a word for this native orchid, however passamaquoddy kin use wiphulakson/feather moccasin for both pitcher plant and moccasin flower, and abenaki do retain ahamoakesen/hen’s moccasin for pitcher plant, so....
nebisibs kizi w'dalômtasi kipakik sibosisek
a waterbird has made tracks on the shore by the brook
wlôgwihlas adalihlait
"evening flyer" - "where one goes to grow"
hermit thrush nest
alnôbaimolôgwimenal kizatawa
wild grapes are blooming
it's not a "battle" or a "fight" against climate change...
the violence IS the problem.
a more effective response is the way of kinship and compassion.
wôbtegwakamigwzo spôzibi nebisisek
the goose family eats breakfast by the pond
skweda - nebi - aki - awan
fire - water - earth - air
wantastegok
wskiagwôdawas
young hemlock reishi
ganoderma tsugae
odamôkikonek chakwa
at the tobacco garden this morning
