FIRE – BEGINNER

Instructions: Click on the stars to learn some of the Hall of Famers’ Indigenous names and words of love and motivation in Indigenous languages.

FIRE – BEGINNER- EN
T’aih – Strength huyqw - Fire âhkameyihtamowin – Perseverance Sâkihiwêwin - Love Shakihi – Love Kanolukhwáhsla̲’ - Love Tawaskamik ô iskwew - Waneek Horn-Miller - Centre of the Earth Woman Osâw kihîw - Golden Eagle - Chief Wilton Littlechild temstl’í7s - Love Opintowin - Lifting each other up, can also be understood as “to win” Mahihkan Pimohtêw - Chief Wilton Littlechild - Wolf Walker Karakwinontha - Waneek Horn-Miller - She brings the sun inside Sàn’ Tł’yaa Eniniint’aih – Milky Way Galaxy xulsi’malt - Harry Manson - One who leaves his mark Gagwe:gih - Tom Longboat - Everything Ohnathakowa - Alwyn Morris - Tall standing pine/big pine

T’aih – Strength

Gwich’in
Athapaskan Language Family

huyqw - Fire

hul'q'umi'num'
Coast Salish

âhkameyihtamowin – Perseverance

Nêhiyawak (Plains Cree)
Algonquian Language Family

Sâkihiwêwin - Love

Nêhiyawak (Plains Cree)
Algonquian Language Family

Shakihi – Love

Michif (Métis)
Algonquian Language Family

Kanolukhwáhsla̲’ - Love

Oneida

Iroquoian Language Family

Tawaskamik ô iskwew - Waneek Horn-Miller - Centre of the Earth Woman

Nêhiyawak (Plains Cree)
Algonquian Language Family

Osâw kihîw - Golden Eagle - Chief Wilton Littlechild

Nêhiyawak (Plains Cree)
Algonquian Language Family

temstl’í7s - Love

Sḵwx̱ wú7mesh sníchim

Squamish Language

Opintowin - Lifting each other up, can also be understood as “to win”

Nêhiyawak (Plains Cree)
Algonquian Language Family

Mahihkan Pimohtêw - Chief Wilton Littlechild - Wolf Walker

Nêhiyawak (Plains Cree)
Algonquian Language Family

Karakwinontha - Waneek Horn-Miller - She brings the sun inside

Kanien'kéha (Mohawk)

Iroquoian Language Family

Sàn’ Tł’yaa Eniniint’aih – Milky Way Galaxy

Gwich’in
Athapaskan Language Family

xulsi’malt - Harry Manson - One who leaves his mark

hul'q'umi'num'
Coast Salish

Gagwe:gih - Tom Longboat - Everything

Onondaga

Ohnathakowa - Alwyn Morris - Tall standing pine/big pine

Kanien'kéha (Mohawk)

Iroquoian Language Family