WATER – INTERMEDIATE

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

 

Water – Intermediate – EN
Nunavut - Our Land Chilliwack – Going back up Wâpamon Sakahikan - Wabamun Lake – Mirror Nôtinitosîpîhk – Battlefords Kisiskâciwani-sîpiy - Saskatchewan River - Swift-flowing river Misâskwatômina - Saskatoon - Saskatoon berry Kipahikanihk - Qu’Appelle - The river that calls Opâskwêyâw - The Pas - Narrow between high banks Nîsochiwan sipi - Echimamish River - Water flowing both ways Winipek - Winnipeg - Dirty water where the alders grow Kahionhakowa - Grand River - Willow River for the many willows in the watershed Oshawa - The crossing place nipiy kipahikan - Chibougamau - Where the water is shut in K'jipuktuk - Halifax Mta’qanejk - Tignish River – Paddle Place KipukKak Bay - Frothy Water

Nunavut - Our Land

Inuktitut

South Qikiqtaaluk

Chilliwack – Going back up

Coast Salish

Wâpamon Sakahikan - Wabamun Lake – Mirror

Nêhiyawak (Plains Cree)
Algonquian Language Family

Nôtinitosîpîhk – Battlefords

Nêhiyawak (Plains Cree)
Algonquian Language Family

Kisiskâciwani-sîpiy - Saskatchewan River - Swift-flowing river

Nêhiyawak (Plains Cree)

Algonquian Language Family

Misâskwatômina - Saskatoon - Saskatoon berry

Kipahikanihk - Qu’Appelle - The river that calls

Nêhiyawak (Plains Cree)

Algonquian Language Family

Opâskwêyâw - The Pas - Narrow between high banks

Nêhiyawak (Plains Cree)

Algonquian Language Family

Nîsochiwan sipi - Echimamish River - Water flowing both ways

Nêhiyawak (Plains Cree)

Algonquian Language Family

Winipek - Winnipeg - Dirty water where the alders grow

Nêhiyawak (Plains Cree)

Algonquian Language Family

Kahionhakowa - Grand River - Willow River for the many willows in the watershed

Nêhiyawak (Plains Cree)

Algonquian Language Family

Oshawa - The crossing place

Anishinaabe

nipiy kipahikan - Chibougamau - Where the water is shut in

Nêhiyawak (Plains Cree)
Algonquian Language Family

K'jipuktuk - Halifax

Mi'kmaq

Mta’qanejk - Tignish River – Paddle Place

Mi'kmaq

KipukKak Bay - Frothy Water

Inuktitut

South Qikiqtaaluk