A DISSERTATION SUBMITTED TO THE FACULTY OF THE ...

speaker to set that information off as significant from prior text in (22a). This use also
occurs in the next few lines of this story where the speakers highlights their healing
instruments, i.e. bones. Because the use of bones to heal people is somewhat of a lost art
and largely an unknown fact these days among the younger generation (and non-Indians),
the use of shke here allows the speaker to give special attention to this fact.
(23) inashke marking insights (Clark 2003, audio)
a) Mii dash i'iw imaa, nashke mii noongom inigaaziyang gaawiin awiiya
and then that there DM DP today we’re pitiful not someone
ayaasiiwag geyaabi aapiji ongow ge-nanaandawi’inangig.
there is no one anymore hardly these those who could heal us
b) Shke wiinawaa ongow, mewinzha gaa-nanaandawi’iwejig
DM they these long ago those that healed people
miinawaa anow odookanimiwaan gii-aabaji’aawaad nawaa awegonen
and those their bones they used them and what
gaa-miinindwaa ji-aabajitoowaad.
what was given to them for them to use
a) ‘See, that’s why we’re so pitiful these days, there aren’t very many people
anymore who could heal us.
b) You see, these who healed people a long time ago, would use their bones and
whatever they were given to use.’
Inashke may also highlight upcoming text in order to draw out distinctions. In the
following example, inashke is used to show such a distinction between the use of the
Ojibwe and English languages.
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