WATER – BEGINNER
Instructions: Click the water droplets on the map to learn Indigenous place names across what is now Canada.

Wâpamon Sakahikan - Wabamun Lake – Mirror

Nêhiyawak (Plains Cree)
Algonquian Language Family
Chilliwack – Going back up

















Coast Salish
Nôtinitosîpîhk – Battlefords

















Nêhiyawak (Plains Cree)
Algonquian Language Family
Kipahikanihk - Qu’Appelle - The river that calls

















Nêhiyawak (Plains Cree)
Algonquian Language Family
Winipek - Winnipeg - Dirty water where the alders grow

















Nêhiyawak (Plains Cree)
Algonquian Language Family
Nîsochiwan sipi - Echimamish River - Water flowing both ways

















Nêhiyawak (Plains Cree)
Algonquian Language Family
Opâskwêyâw - The Pas - Narrow between high banks

















Nêhiyawak (Plains Cree)
Algonquian Language Family
Kisiskâciwani-sîpiy - Saskatchewan River - Swift-flowing river

















Nêhiyawak (Plains Cree)
Algonquian Language Family
Kahionhakowa - Grand River - Willow River for the many willows in the watershed

















Kanien'kéha (Mohawk)
Iroquoian Language Family
tkaronto - Toronto - Trees standing in water

















Kanien'kéha (Mohawk)
Iroquoian Language Family
Oshawa - The crossing place

















Anishinaabe
nipiy kipahikan - Chibougamau - Where the water is shut in

















Nêhiyawak (Plains Cree)
Algonquian Language Family
Mta’qanejk - Tignish River – Paddle Place

















Mi'kmaq
K'jipuktuk - Halifax

















Mi'kmaq
KipukKak Bay - Frothy Water

















Inuktitut
South Qikiqtaaluk
Nunavut - Our Land

















Inuktitut
South Qikiqtaaluk