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a) ‘It wasn’t very cold so we lay down there on the shore where she could watch
the net and I scratched her back as we lay there; she always had me scratch her
back.
b) Then she started to tell stories.’
(144) miish i'iw within background structures (Kegg 1991:142-145)
a) Mewinzha dash iwidi ayi’ing ingii-izhaamin, iwidi akeyaa
long ago but over there that one place 1.PAST-go.1P/INDEP over there way
ayi’ing, waasa go iwidi, amanj iidog ezhinikaadegwen
that one place far EPMH over there I don’t know DUBIT what it must be called
anishinaabewinikaadeg.
what it is called in Indian
b) Ingii-o-manoominikemin iwidi.
1.PAST-go and-rice-1P over there
c) Miish i'iw ingii-pi-waabamigonaanig iko ingiw anishinaabeg
and then… 1.PAST-come-see.3P>1P used to those Indians
ini-onaagoshig, bi-mawadishiyangidwaa.
towards evening to come visit us
d) Bimishkaawag.
go by boat.3P/INDEP
e) Gaawiin gaye awiiya odaabaanan, gaawiin gegoo miikana.
not also someone car not something road
f) Miish a’aw bezhig ikwe babaa-naaniibawid.
and then that one woman around-stands.3/CONJ
g) Enda-onizhishi a’aw mindimooyenh.
very-pretty/INDEP that old woman
h) Mii gaa-pi-izhi-nawadinid, “Awenen gidoodem,” indig.
DP IC.PAST-come-RR-grab.3>1/CONJ who your clan she tells me
a) ‘Long ago we went over there, a long way, I don’t know what it is called in
Indian.
b) We went over there to rice.
c) The Indians came to see us for a visit in the evening.
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