Olympics Update
Posted on February 16, 2010
I’ve been here a week, and I’ve had the pleasure of dining on bannock, bannock with moose meat, and various other Aboriginal delights. I can tell you, the folks involved in the games here in Winnipeg are having a fantastic time. The atmosphere is outstanding and everyone is in such a positive mood. Their performances have been first rate.
It was interesting listening to the mens hockey game today between the United States and Norway. George Nakogee and Jules Spence were doing play by play in Cree. They kept on using the word and I’m writing this phonetically, “kess-che-mo-gah-man” I finally asked Abel Charles my translator what it meant and he said the English translation was “long knives”. That’s the name the Cree give the Americans instead of referring to the “United States”. The term has been used since before the civil war.
Another term I learned was Tah-zeh-tak… it means believe. Tiorokwathe Gilbert says it before his telecasts in Mohawk.
What a fabulous experience this is turning out to be.
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