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| Name: | Diane |
| E-mail address: | sd.macaulay@videotron.ca |
| Comments: | After a long long search finally at this time I have been honored with a confirmation of my Algonquin roots. I knew in my veins that I belonged, my spirit would continually confirm it to me whenever I am around my culture and their art. I have listened to you vocabulary and must say that it wont be long that I will be able to converse with my people, as long as we add a few more in here like "Hi How are you my friend,
ThanX a bunch and please do keep it up |
| Name: | Don Jette |
| E-mail address: | djette@ntl.sympatico.ca |
| Homepage URL: | http:// |
| Comments: | Kwe Kwe
My name is Don Jette Wawatte,I am looking for some of my relative from Maniwaki Que.My Gr Gr Great Grandmother came from Le grand Lac reserve,Now called Lake victoria Her name was Marie Enabit Dit Bradley,Her mothers name was Louise Atchan.Looking for any relative of my desendent.If you are a relative Please contac me at my email address djette@ntl.sympatico.ca Meegwetch |
| Name: | Nathalie Desjardins |
| E-mail address: | iguanat@hotmail.com |
| Comments: | thanks for your precious informations but i'll like how and where i learn a algonquin language more by internet in french is possible?,thanks for your response . |
| Name: | Tommy |
| E-mail address: | correspondance_repdom@hotmail.com |
| Comments: | Thank you very much for that very nice tool! I live in Abitibi (Quebec, Canada) and I work with native people very often. This tool helps a lot to understand pronounciation and words we use everyday! It helps keeping interrested to native languages!!
Thanks a lot!! |
| Name: | Rita Gallagher |
| E-mail address: | riga133@msn.com |
| Name: | makwaan wiidbimaad |
| E-mail address: | wiidbimaad@hotmail.com |
| Comments: | Truly I am greatfull , to my brothers and sisters of Golden Lake . Many years ago I was your guest at a rendervoux ( POW~WOW )... On of your teachers ,years later helped me in understanding my SPIRITUAL name .... Your kindness and friendship towards a stranger has always left a deep mark on my LIFE PATH , Although I am METIS , and seen as white face ( watchshe shoo ? ) Many elders have I spoken with from ANGUS PONTIAC , GYANDELUS, GRANDFATHER COMANDA and others on my path .... The message is Always the same " Believe in Myself , use my gifts in a good way and open my hearth to ALL things " Golden Lake has shown me the Honesty of this MESSAGE .... ALL MY RELATIONS |
| Name: | Laurie Rayner |
| E-mail address: | mommabear-1@hotmail.com |
| Comments: | I found this to be a very interesting site. And helpful in getting familiar with the pronunciation of the words as well. |
| Name: | trackingbear1 |
| E-mail address: | trackingbear1@comcast.net |
| Comments: | Thank you for this teaching tool. |
| Name: | alli masse |
| E-mail address: | happy14u2@hotmail.com |
| Comments: | thank you for having this. i belong to the metis nation of new england. |
| Name: | jesse's book |
| E-mail address: | westcoast_jess@hotmail.com |
| Comments: | this was reely helpful for speaking my language cause we lost it its been years so thanks for the info. hope you fiend more words yo help people in need. |
| Name: | James Gentry |
| E-mail address: | gentryiibgjm@msn.com |
| Comments: | 13th generation grandson of Chief Powhatan thru grandfather
14th generation grandson of Chief Powhatan thru grandmother Gentry is an adopted name by Choctaw great great grandmother. |
| Name: | Laurie Pon |
| E-mail address: | lpon@shaw.ca |
| Comments: | Very informative. I would love to know more history of the past and present of the indignious people from Golden Lake. |
| Name: | chris |
| E-mail address: | oz_19_118@hotmail.com |
| Comments: | this site was helpful to me. getting someone to say the words for you really helps.. also i was wondering how do you say " family" in the algonquin language. It would be very helpful if someone could tell me.. thanks |
| Name: | Linda Rock |
| E-mail address: | quest44@peoplepc.com |
| Comments: | Thank you so much for this site it is teaching so much . |
| Name: | Theresa Solomon |
| E-mail address: | soldec@sympatico.ca |
| Comments: | I have finally recieved closure on my Algonquin heritage,
Golden Lake Reserve. Now I am an artist and want some information on Algonquin Art, where do I start. can someone email me on this please. thanks Theresa |
| Name: | ross saunders |
| E-mail address: | rosssaunders@hotmail.com |
| Comments: | pretty cool |
| Name: | John F. Willcutts |
| E-mail address: | John_Willcutts@hotmail.com |
| Comments: | I recently discovered my family is descended from John Wolcott (born 1696) who was captured as a boy of 12-14 years by Algonquin Indians when his horse was shot dead by them around 1705 to 1710. He was raised by the tribe in Canada and then tried to assimilate back into white community around 1725, with much reluctance. He was reported to have had a son John through wife Dinah in Brookfield, MA, but was then reported to have been "killed" by Indians while Dinal was pregnant before the child was born in 1728. This was actually probably a story told to avoid the embarrassment of John supposed "abondaning his wife, Dinah. According to DNA test i am mot related to Dinah, and it's not completely clear that the child was his and he wasn't being forced into a marriage with Dinah against his Alginquin Will. Apparently John went back to live with the Algonquins and married an Algonquin maiden and later had a son Joesph by her. It seems that Joseph may have also lived with the tribe and had at least two sons, Thomas Willcutts, and Reuben Wolcott. According to DNA tests there is a "missing link" between John Wolcott who was supposedly killed by Indians, and Thomas Willcutts who ended up illiterate in North Carolina. The best explanation concering this missing link seems to be one or two generations of Algonquin ancestry unique to the Wolcott/Willcutts/Walcott Family Tree. Apparently, Thomas the eldest son, was illiterate and may have been a child to Joseph and an Algonquin wife, as well. There is no documentation in the family on Joseph only that he was father to Reuben in a mysterious distant manner accoridng to family lore, while Thomas seemed to arrive in North Carolina, Piney Grove near Greensboro, out of nowhere being illiterate and ending up a Quaker friendly in a peaceful relationship with Indians I.e. Cherokee, etc.). Thomas, like other Quakers, hated slavery and refused to live around it, moving his family to Indiana some time before the Civil War probably during the 1820's - 1830's. The most obvious evidence of one or even two generations of Wolcotts/Willcutts living amongst the Algonquins is the facial charateristics and skin tone of family members. My youngest sister has been "mistaken" for an Algonquin Indian. Maybe there is actually a certain amount of truth to all this. The strange thing that i have noticed as John Willcutts, descendant of John Wolcott, who was captured by the Algonquins and returned to live with them as adults, is a spiritual connection or oneness with the Algonquins i am finding way too obvious in my heart to ignore. Much of my stubborn personal philosophy and principles of life are very consistent with not only a native peoples' point of view, but more specifically an Algonquin persective of life and the Creator, etc.
i am completely blessed by the Algonquin people and i pray the Great Spirit will allow me to be closer to them one day soon and celebrate the coming of the Great White Buffalo!! ;^) With Love Peace and Respect john Work/weedays: (706) 546-2089 Home/nights&weekends: (706) 850-0011 P.O. Box 82403 Athens, GA 30608 |
| Name: | Jay Kaufman |
| E-mail address: | jaykaufman1776@hotmail.com |
| Comments: | Very useful! Many thanks!! |
| Name: | Janet Halsted |
| E-mail address: | Halsted@Charter.net |
| Name: | Daniel Bernard |
| E-mail address: | zorokenpo@hotamail.com |
| Comments: | Kwey-Kwey dear friends, Please continue educating us in our beautifull language..
Mi-gwetich, Daniel Bernard |
| Name: | Carol Horan (nee Woods) |
| E-mail address: | orangeville_mom@hotmail.com |
| Comments: | Hello, someone has been looking for me? My email address changed since 2005. My mother's maiden name was Yateman,first name Naomi, married John Francis Woods, Her mother was Annie Baptiste, who's father was Chief John Baptiste. Baptiste Lake, Ontario was named after him. My cousin Cheryl Rohrback did massive research into our background. Her email is rorhback@sympatico.ca She could add a lot of into to this website. Thanks |
| Name: | clayton terry |
| E-mail address: | claytonrterry@hotmail.com |
| Comments: | Hi my mothers name is patricia brule, daughter to cecil brule from ottawa ontario. Im told that we are decended from the great river people! Im trying to get a broader picture of my heritage can some one help me out ????? much luv Clayton Terry |
| Name: | S.G. Miller |
| E-mail address: | SCHINF-SO2G7TRGPOL@mod.uk |
| Name: | Robert Nowen |
| E-mail address: | roberttreky@sympatico.ca |
| Comments: | Hi All,
I love the web site and I am now trying to teach myself how to speak Algonquin. Is there any where else on the web that I could get more information on learning how to speak Algonquin. My story is like a lot of peaple trying to learn about my heritage. My great great grand mother is Marie Kekjicakoe from Allumette Island. My grand father Martin Laronde was from Westmeath I for most of my life lived in the Ottawa Valley. I was born in Pembroke and raised in Chalk River. I have for years been trying to learn more of where I came from. How can I find out if my grand father belong to a tribe? I when to my first Pow Wow this weekend and loved it. I am all ready planning on going to Golden Lake next year for thier Pow Wow. P.S. How do you say Robert in Algonquin? Robert Nowen |
| Name: | Eric Captain |
| E-mail address: | e.captain@noos.fr |
| Comments: | Hi, many thanks for this recording. I'm french and very interested in the Native American culture. So, it's a very moving experience to hear the Algonquin language in the childs mouth... I wich there could be more words, because, it's very difficult to prononce them correctly just when you read them.
Many thanks again... Cheers Eric |
| Name: | jodi |
| E-mail address: | rlopez818@earthlink.net |
| Comments: | Kwe Kwe,Im trying to locate Cds of the Algonquin language because my media player for the computer seems to cut out now and again so I cant hear the words well..Does anyone know where I can get theses if poss? Why Im interested is because my grandmother was from the Timiskiming First Nation reserve in Notre Dame Du Nord and they speak Algonquin...I would like to learn it...thanks.. |
| Name: | STP |
| E-mail address: | p4k@email.com |
| Comments: | Greetings.
I live in east central Wisconsin where I run a local youth center and coach for the area HS/MS. As politically incorrect as it may be, our mascot is the "Indians" primarily because our area was once home to the Mascoutin. I am contacting you to see if you can help me. In two days I am hosting a gathering of all the student-athletes in the area. At this event -- just prior to the start of the school year -- I hope to turn the kids' attention towards the idea of QUTTIANUM (the Algonquin word for HONOR). My hope is to be able to share with them a little about what it meant to the Native Americans who once lived here...and use that idea/theme to challenge them to approach the upcoming year with a newfound resolve to be better students and citizens. I also hope to take this opportunity to get some of them to see our mascot in a different light by sharing about the reality of the Mascoutin. Could you PLEASE be of assistance? Here's what I'd need from you (SOON if possible): • A phonetic pronunciation of the word QUTTIANUM. • Any background of what "HONOR" may have meant to people like the Mascoutin. • Any links you may have which may assist me. This is vitally important to me and, I believe, to the young people of our area. I've done some research but your assistance would be a HUGE help. |
| Name: | rolland leclair |
| E-mail address: | agm"shaw.ca |
| Name: | Derek |
| E-mail address: | Dtailinglawnman@yahoo.com |
| Homepage URL: | http://Kwe-Kwe.... |
| Comments: | How are you doing Madam/Sir? I am really really good as usual and was wondering if y'all knew of any Holy Man or Lady from The Algonquin Nation? I'm part Algonquin and want to find more way's to follow & serve The Lord & God plus see how the Algonquin wedding ceremony is done! Thank you very much for your time and have a beautiful day like I alway's do!
~Derek~ My Algonquin name is Gentle Eagle and that name shine's very bright on my being in which I am ever so very proud of |
| Name: | Nindayaakwe |
| E-mail address: | momconge@yahoo.com |
| Comments: | Anhii to all,
I am searching any Robinsons from the Mass area, also the translation of my ggrandfathers name. I was told he was Algonquin. The name is Shaw waw nay see ga. Any help would be greatly appreciated. mii gwech, Walk in Peace Rachel |
| Name: | loretta |
| E-mail address: | lorettarichard@hotmail.com |
| Comments: | Kwey, thank you for the information it is well needed.....Could you give me an idea on how the area of trois rivieres quebec was called in algonquin.......three would be niswi and rivers I am not sure ( Sibi, Sipi, Zibi ) or if there was a different name all together....
Thank you once again Meegwetch |
| Name: | Shelley Hilllman |
| E-mail address: | shillman@sympatico.ca |
| Comments: | We visit Golden Lake every summer (Red Pine Camp) and I enjoy your website. |
| Name: | Joan (Ross) Lane |
| E-mail address: | Newportlady99@yahoo.com |
| Comments: | My Aunt Ida was married to P J Bernard, son of Matt Bernard, who was a Chief of the Golden Lake Algonquin tribe. My first cousins are Doris Bilodeau, Sylvia Leclair, and Beverly Pugliese......their maiden names were Bernard. |
| Name: | michael parke |
| E-mail address: | micad@295.ca |
| Comments: | all children in canada should have some knowledge of first nations languages.that will be the beginning of respect for all. tsimistisin |
| Name: | chantelle lavallee |
| E-mail address: | chantelle_86442@yahoo.com |
| Comments: | hi,
i have been doing my family tree at ancestary.com, and i happened to noticed that my great grandfather is from ontario,canada |
| Name: | Bianca |
| E-mail address: | alaskantimberwolf@charter.net |
| Comments: | I have blood from algonquin speaking tribes in me so, i wanted to find out more about my heritage! :)
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| Name: | Nagarani |
| E-mail address: | nagarani_us_paratan@yahoo.com |
| Comments: | Greetings,
I too would like to learn the language of my Abenaki, Algoquin language group ancestors. The spirits of the land need to be fed and addressed in their Respect names. Prayers need all the weight we can give em these days. Thank you, Nagarani |
| Name: | Monique Valiquette |
| E-mail address: | mona_1959@hotmail.com |
| Comments: | I am a descendant of the Dussiaume (Jussiaume) family from Maniwaki. I am looking for any Dussiaume (Jussiaume) who would have known my great-grandfather Joseph Jussiaume and Mary Joly or Thomas Jusiaume and Joseph Robillard and Marcelline Jetté. |
| Name: | Melanie McCadden |
| E-mail address: | melaniemccadden@hotmail.com |
| Comments: | Hello all,
I just wanted to comment on what a wonderful website this is. Thank you for all your hard work. I'm not First Nations however I currently work on a Native Reservation in Eastern Ontario and while away training for my job I met a wonderful man from Kitigan-Zibi reservation in Maniwaki PQ, so that is what brought me to this website. Thank you once again. Melanie |
| Name: | james bonner |
| E-mail address: | ajbonner.ent@shaw.ca |
| Comments: | well this was very interesting my son who is 11 is very interested in his roots this will help as we are so far away on vancouver island |
| Name: | Torin Kasper |
| E-mail address: | tsexyface09@aol.com |
| Comments: | THIS WEBSITE WAS SO HELPFUL BEACUASE I AM OJIBWE AND AM STILL A LITTLE BIT BAD WITH THE LANGUAGE. |
| Name: | Lillian Beaudoin |
| E-mail address: | lillian.beaudoin@inac.gc.ca |
| Comments: | Excellant resource.... I have printed list of Animal of the Forest to bring up to the family cottage this weekend. The idea is to give list to my nieces and nephews and see who can memorize the names of 10 animals that can be found at or around our cottage.
Teaching by creating games is a wonderful way of learning..... Great job guys!!!! |
| Name: | Stephane Demers |
| E-mail address: | coraxbg@hotmail.com |
| Comments: | Thank you, very good site. Only wish it had even more language on it.
I used it to translate the name of my plane. S.D. |
| Name: | JOHN MCDONALD |
| E-mail address: | gimmekid@rogers.com |
| Comments: | I'm still looking for Delores Kohoko(raised in Pembroke) Father Ivan. Would like very much to stay in touch. Your uncle John |
| Name: | Leslie G. |
| E-mail address: | iloveapes@hotmail.com |
| Comments: | What a great idea! I am interested in finding out more about my mom's family. My mother's name was Jacqueline (Jackie) and she had a sister named Olive. Her father was from Golden Lake, Patrick James Aird. He married Maude Gertrude McKinnon. He had a sister named Sarah who married Jim Lavalee. I remember sitting in the kitchen at Jim and my Aunt Sarah's house on the reserve and the old house was also still standing on the property. Sarah made the most beautiful mocassins. She also had a very interesting life, cooking for some very famous people. I think that Sarah and my grandfather Patrick might also have had brothers named Dickson and Alec or Alex. If anyone knows of the people I am refering to, please contact me.
Thank you Leslie G. |
| Name: | martin |
| E-mail address: | copebarent@hotmail.com |
| Comments: | firt of all,very good website and good work on (Algonquin Language) #1 P.S im a Algonquin |
| Name: | Marion Last (nee) Yateman |
| E-mail address: | icequeen@cablerocket.com |
| Comments: | This is an absolute great site !
I have just met a family member on here and thoroughly enjoyed reading others stories. It's so great that people take the time to put their thoughts down so others can also enjoy them. thanks for presenting this Dreambook to all of us wandering souls. I live out here on Vancouver Island so this is a treat ! I"ll be back... |
| Name: | Joseph Daniels |
| E-mail address: | jldanie@yahoo.com |
| Comments: | Thanks so much! Great site-- I'm a linguist (Semitics) by training, but my family background is Seminole-Creek. I really enjoyed perusing your site. |
| Name: | Dolores Cobb Phifer |
| E-mail address: | twowolvesdancing@comcast.net |
| Comments: | O'Siyo/Yo/Hello. My email has since changed to twowolvesdancing@comcast.net... I moved.
I am still looking to talk/write to anyone related to Aganstata/Oconostota and those related to The Great White Owl Raven. May Creator continue to bless you. Wado/Ona/Till the next time. Dolores TwoWolvesDancing |
| Name: | MGBADA JOE |
| E-mail address: | homeboy@yahoo.com |
| Comments: | i love this page. it looksq real:ly nice nad good. |
| Name: | Rory |
| Comments: | I am Cherokee, Blackfoot, and Algonquinan indian. I am also 5 other ethnicities that are not indian so i am the king of diversity. I can read cherokee and speak a little, but i would like to learn algonquin because my mother does not speak it and i want to learn the culture.
thank you very much for this site. |
| Name: | Gerry Lafreniere |
| E-mail address: | signature_expressions@hotmail.com |
| Comments: | I am not full algonquin but i am interested in learning the language and the tradition so I can teach my children |
| Name: | Edmund K Swigart III "Ted" |
| E-mail address: | stonehedge@snet.net |
| Comments: | Thank you. I have always wanted to learn more about the Algonquin language. Great web site. My father's dream was to open a museum to teach people more about the Native American Indians and their culture. Now in it's 32 year the Institute for American Indian Studies (known earlier as American Indian Archeological Instituite) in Washington, Connecticut, has helped people understand more about our history. Let us all help others understand.
Thanks again, Ted |
| Name: | Skip Ross(Running River |
| E-mail address: | skipr@sympatico.ca |
| Name: | dart kimchuk |
| E-mail address: | dartkimchuk@yahoo.com |
| Comments: | how do you say and spell grandmother my ansestry is black foot and osage |
| Name: | audra |
| E-mail address: | benthere2001@hotmail.com |
| Comments: | hello i am from maniwaki quebec but my fathers side of the family is from golden lake so i am looking for any background history into the benoit and cooko family. just email thank you |
| Name: | audra |
| E-mail address: | benthere2001@hotmail.com |
| Comments: | hello i am from maniwaki quebec but my fathers side of the family is from golden lake so i am looking for any background history into the benoit and cooko family. just email thank you |
| Name: | Francine |
| Comments: | In search of my roots. Thank you for helping me learn some of the language. This helps me understand the songs I'm learning from the women's drum group. Let's keep our culture alive!
Megwetch |
| Name: | Jolie Boccanfuso |
| E-mail address: | jolieb@frozenmedia.com |
| Comments: | I love that you have some of the language available to listen to. I am part Blackfoot (my great-grandmother was full blood)and I always wanted to know what the language sounded like. This is a great site.
Jolie B |
| Name: | Desiree Elliott |
| E-mail address: | measde@aol.com |
| Comments: | THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR SHARING!!
DE |
| Name: | annie Smith St-Georges |
| E-mail address: | arstgeorges@hotmail.com |
| Comments: | I am an algonquin elder from Kitigan Zibi living in Gatineau Quebec.
I wish you all the best in your efforts to preserve and promote the algonquin language. Meegwetch! |
| Name: | chrissy |
| E-mail address: | zeldaonefifi@rogers.com |
| Comments: | thank you now maybe i can learn about my family history |
| Name: | Marda King |
| E-mail address: | marda_king@ncct.on.ca |
| Comments: | What a wonderful idea Meegwetch |
| Name: | Rejean Fillion |
| E-mail address: | rgfillion@videotron.ca |
| Comments: | Thank you. |
| Name: | T. Michelle St. Michael |
| E-mail address: | mstmichael@shaw.ca |
| Comments: | I'm so excited to have found this page! Finally, a link to a part of my past I've never understood or been taught about. Now I can hopefully start to educate my children so our link is not lost.
Thank you so much. Peace to all of you. |
| Name: | Charles Williamson |
| E-mail address: | will8606@bellsouth.net |
| Comments: | am a long descendant of the Croatan Nation of eastern North Carolina. Algonquin language is probable the closest thing to my ancestry's language. I am hopping to learn as much as my old mind can absorber.Algonquin Language |
| Name: | M . Bouvette |
| E-mail address: | bouvette@eidnet.org |
| Comments: | Hello, to all. what a great sight. I've found it very interesting,and informative. Thank you. |
| Name: | sue lamure |
| E-mail address: | nishsue@yahoo.com |
| Name: | julia roulette |
| E-mail address: | juliee7904@yahoo.com |
| Comments: | hi you are doing a wonderful job.keep up the good work |
| Name: | Réjean Fillion |
| E-mail address: | rgfillion@videotron.ca |
| Comments: | Thank you for the short lessons. |
| Name: | Henri Ducharme |
| E-mail address: | ducharme.h@forces.gc.ca |
| Comments: | I was born and still live in Ottawa 65years later. I have always been very proud of my native ancestry. My paternal grandmother we think Mohawk, can't find any documentation. We recently found out our maternal grandmother was algonquin. After doing some reaserch on that tribe I think brobably ( Cachesipinini ). Now I understand the reason for this love afaire I've had with the Ottawa river all my life. Also three years ago I bought property on Fraser island wich is part of les iles aux Alumettes. I am now trying to learn Algonquin. HELP! meegwetch |
| Name: | Sander |
| Comments: | As being a white, caucasian male, I can only ask myself... what have we done? We destroyed a people... a language..
Sorry! |
| Name: | Donavon Gaudette |
| E-mail address: | dgaudette@mac.com |
| Homepage URL: | http://www.c2a.ca |
| Comments: | Thank you for the information... I have just found out that my Grand mother was Algonquin and I am trying to find out more about my heritage.
Don |
| Name: | Judy Buck |
| E-mail address: | jarcbuck@sbcglobal.net |
| Comments: | My name is Judith Ann (Berry) Buck.
My Great-Great grand father was Amable Beaudry. And from the information I have gathered, he married Catherine Ellen Stoqua approximately January 19, 1852 at Chapeau Pontiac County Quebec. My research also tells me that her parents were Joseph Stoqua and Barbara Aquaiock and were members of the Algonquin Nation. If you have any information about these two people, please let me know. Additionally, on the maternal family side, my father's mother's mother was Mary Ellen Leronde. Her mother was Mary Ann Stoqua. Are Catherine and Mary ann related? Are we perhaps related? I look foprward to your response! Judy Buck |
| Name: | Mary Ann |
| E-mail address: | maryanntony@hotmail.com |
| Comments: | im a kokomis of niish and Djoodjoo of nishwaaswi dropping a line of hello presently in calgary alberts |
| Name: | Victoria Desilets |
| E-mail address: | cap-casst@odawa.on.ca |
| Comments: | great to hear our language won't be lost |
| Name: | Henri Ducharme |
| E-mail address: | ducharmeh@forces.gc.ca |
| Comments: | Keep up the good work. Our heritage is very importante. |
| Name: | Patrick Charette |
| E-mail address: | patcharette@sympatico.ca |
| Comments: | Excellent |
| Name: | maryann villeneuve |
| E-mail address: | maryanntony@hotmail.com |
| Comments: | im glad to learn about my people and where my antcestors came from and how they lived. thank you chief richard zorh |
| Name: | Bev. Beattie |
| E-mail address: | beverlyabeattie@yahoo.ca |
| Comments: | Hi All
Just a short note to say thank-you for this web site l've learned so much from it. And also if Carol Horan or Marilyn McDonald see this message l wish that you's would contact me at the above email address as l believe yous might fit into to my family tree. Thank-you once again for such a great web site. Bev. Beattie |
| Name: | Robin Armstrong |
| E-mail address: | georgeollanese@theresumemedia.net |
| Homepage URL: | http://www.theresumemedia.net |
| Comments: | Just stopped by. Migwetch. |
| Name: | Claire Beatrice (Beaudry) Smith |
| E-mail address: | pepbeasmithsympatico.ca |
| Comments: | My greatgrandmother Catherine Stoka married to Amable Beaudry came from the Golden Lake Reserve. This site is very good - and I will enjoy it, and try to learn the language. |
| Name: | EZEUDELE |
| E-mail address: | EZEUDELE@YAHOO.COM |
| Comments: | GUYS EZEUDELE IS BACK HEREOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO |
| Name: | Heather Welk |
| E-mail address: | hwelk30@hotmail.com |
| Comments: | Your site is great. Keep up the good work.
Heather |
| Name: | Kevin Chief (Masinikijik) |
| E-mail address: | kevin@algonquinhrsd.com |
| Comments: | I belong to the Temiskaming First Nations in Notre-Dame du Nord, Quebec and just wanted to let you know I enjoyed your website. As you are probably aware most of these words (and many others) can be found at http://www.algonquinnation.ca/anishnabe/index.html but it was good to hear the community children speaking them. Meegwich |
| Name: | jeffrey |
| E-mail address: | jeffoblige@hotmail.com |
| Comments: | kwey kwey
i am a lost algoquin. i've been doing research for about a year now and i have looked over hundreds of census records trying to locate my people and where they lived, etc. i was told that in order to find out about who you are you have to know where you come from.wel... the journey is long but so far i've come up with some names and dates... ELIZABETH COMMANDA MARY AND DEKONTI(JACKO) GEORGE MONGRAIN AND SIBLINGS STANISLAUS/TAMESSE/THOMAS/DAMESSE/ LANGEVIN GRAND LOUIS ALL THESE NAMESS ARE FROM THE TEMISKAMING, MATTAWA, KIPPAWA REGIONS. BUT I STILL CAN'T FIND THE DIRECT LINE TO ME (I KNOW ITS THERE BUT I JUST CAN'T SEE IT) YOU KNOW THAT FEELING WHEN YOU'RE BEING CALLED HOME? WELL IT PULLS STRONGLY. I HAVE SO MANY NAMES IN MY HEAD THAT IT SPINS AND I CAN'T NARROW STUFF DOWN. HELP! MEEGWECH |
| Name: | Tina |
| E-mail address: | tinytina2764@hotmail.com |
| Comments: | I truly enjoyed reading your guestbook especially the ones of family finding their true roots! I am looking for info on my Algonquin family from Maniwaki. The names I have to share are Mathias/Paquette/Lamure. If these ring a bell...please please email me.
Thanks Tina!! Huggles |
| Name: | Tina |
| E-mail address: | tinytina2764@hotmail.com |
| Comments: | I truly enjoyed reading your guestbook especially the ones of family finding their true roots! I am looking for info on my Algonquin family from Maniwaki. The names I have to share are Mathias/Paquette/Lamure. If these ring a bell...please please email me.
Thanks Tina!! Huggles |
| Name: | Mary.Maytwayashing |
| E-mail address: | heavenly_silk@hotmail.com |
| Comments: | i'm looking for information on 2 last names, my husband n I found out about in 2002 when we traveled to London, and we went to his father's as well, we recieved a picture dating back to 1950 and in that picture is a woman that was his grandmother n not the house keeper as he was told n went by after all these yrs until 2002, the house keeper's brother was met by my husband's father n sister and he had long hair n braids and native and as did his childern this man is his grandmother's (Vivian) brother and when we started looking for any information regarding that my husband maybe well be native...... the first last name is Mark n the other is Tyson, i would like to know if these are first nations names n which first nations do they come from? ty very much and i would like to add in closing, i've very much enjoyed reading the heart felt articles. Megwetch....Mary |
| Name: | julia roulette |
| E-mail address: | juliee7904@yahoo.com |
| Comments: | keep up the good work,i am a saulteaux from manitoba,my real last name was matewinin,until the missionairies changed it to roulette.i am a residental school surivor.your sites are very interesting to read thx.. |
| Name: | Dee Fabian |
| E-mail address: | rvre03@hotmail.com |
| Comments: | My Mom was a Frappier. Her Grandfather was Joseph Francis Frappier of Franklin, VT married to Mary Eloise Nichols. His father was a Francis B. Frappier married to a Marguerite Peko (Pico, Pecoo, Pequo, Pigeau SP?) We think his middle name was Xavier and there is some data related to a Margarite Pion married to a Francis Xavier Bonvenu (SP) Frappier. We have been looking into our history and have been confused by conflicting info, name mispellings and origin for ggmother which lists her as Abeneki, Objiwa, Pequot; then as "Crow". She was listed on Indian Territory for 1880's, on a reservation where all tribes were mixed together. Can someone help me untangle this info to find that which matches? Heartfelt Thanks, Dee Fabian |
| Name: | Fay |
| E-mail address: | fitch@tcc.on.ca |
| Comments: | Greetings,
Can anyone help me? I'm researching geneology. Surnames, Monette/Pappin/Laronde/Bernard of the Golden Lake Area. Thank you |
| Name: | dwight beattie |
| E-mail address: | rdwightb@yahoo.ca |
| Comments: | en joyed the algonquin language
thank you |
| Name: | Tammy |
| E-mail address: | tim_n_tammy@msn.com |
| Comments: | Hello Everyone; this is my first time to this web site, and I also am an Algonquin from Golden Lake. I am writing the guest book to see if there is anyone out there who could help me. See, I am wanting to go to College, but cannot afford to. And I was wondering if the Algonquin First Nations could help me. If anyone can help me with this matter could you please contact me asap. Thank You for your help. Tammy |
| Name: | Colleen Iankoulov |
| E-mail address: | c_iankoul@hotmail.com |
| Comments: | My family, Pigeau-Charette-Dufresne's, have been recognized as a part of the Golden Lake First Nation Indians. We would like to find out so much more about our heritage and don't seem able to do so. My home phone and adress are as follows:
Mrs. Colleen Iankoulov 6390-206 Huggins Street, Niagara Falls, ON L2J 1H1 (905) 353-0065. Your website is very good - thank you for taking the time to maintain it and inform those of us who are struggling to see our history. Thank you. |
| Name: | Judi Proulx |
| E-mail address: | prxju@yahoo.ca |
| Comments: | This site is great. It brings me back to my ancestral roots.
Thank you |
| Name: | EZEUDELE |
| E-mail address: | EZEUDELE@YAHOO.COM |
| Comments: | GUYS I DON'T LAND HEREOOOOOOOOO |
| Name: | fabio |
| E-mail address: | advertimefirenze@virgilio.it |
| Comments: | kwe kwe |
| Name: | Roni Harrison |
| E-mail address: | roni.harrison@btopenworld.com |
| Comments: | Hi, I am trying to locate information on my Gr. Grandfather, Pierre Pigeau (Shawaniprenesi). I was told he was an Algonquin from the Golden Lake!!! Can anyone help? Thanks. |
| Name: | Charlie Arndt |
| E-mail address: | gsd_hell988@yahoo.com |
| Comments: | What is Badger in Algonquin. Your answer would be greatly appreciated.
Thank You, Charlie Arndt Eagle Scout |
| Name: | william dutcher |
| E-mail address: | wildbill2002@cox.net |
| Comments: | I have been Algonquin all my life but until one years ago did not know it . Through all of research i done I finally found my roots. Now I have a lot of catch up learning to do and will be visiting your pages often to attempt to pick up at least some of the Algonquin tongue. I also desire to learn as much about my people, their ways and history as I can. |
| Name: | Marcel Labelle |
| E-mail address: | labelleflowers@aol.com |
| Comments: | Thank you for the words.
Can you please tell me the words for east, south, west, north? Meegwitch. |
| Name: | Ollie Pasquesa Running Water |
| E-mail address: | OllieB789@aol.com |
| Comments: | I think this is wonderfull ! I am Narragansett and we have a small class trying to take back our Language which includes some Algonquin. My cousin has a Narragansett Indian School and the children there are also learning our language. I have sent your website to the school. The School name is Nuweetooun. Their e-mail is: Nuweetooun@Tomaquagmuseum.com
I have thoroughly enjoyed your language site and hopes that one day we will have a Narragansett Language site! Thank you (Katapatush) Ollie Pasquesa Running Water Best |
| Name: | Michael Ault |
| E-mail address: | anishinabeca@yahoo.ca |
| Comments: | Hello.
I was wondering if there is any way you could send me some information on getting a language course or dictionary in the algonquian language. My grandmother told me that the native blood in our family was anishinabek from Golden Lake, and I have always had a curiosity to learn more. Any information you can provide would be greatly appreciated. My address is as follows: Michael Ault 301-215 Oswego St. Victoria, BC V8V-2B5 Thank you once again and have a merry christmas and a happy and lucky new year! Sincerely, Michael Ault |
| Name: | Young |
| E-mail address: | Young@yahoo.com |
| Homepage URL: | http://uk.geocities.com/list934pill/120-fioricet-tablet.htm |
| Comments: | Just try 120 fioricet tablet |
| Name: | Ashley Baker |
| E-mail address: | tray_2004_119@hotmail.com |
| Comments: | i love this website it really wikkid! i love being in golden lake it my most favourite place to be! it teaches me alot of stuff i really injoy learning about thanx for putting this site up! ohh yea one more thing i must say i love you tyson Commanda! Ashley Baker |
| Name: | jennifer |
| E-mail address: | paper125@netzero.com |
| Comments: | If anyone has any infomation on Tistoe, White Owl Raven, Qautsy Woman, Nancy Moytoy, or anyone else along this tree, please let me know... I'm working on my geneology tree and i keep comming up with these names... I would like to know if they are related to me in any way.
Thank You, Jennifer |
| Name: | Colette Brown |
| E-mail address: | colettejbrown@hotmail.com |
| Homepage URL: | http://turtlehouse.org |
| Comments: | Hi, very impressed with your work, your web site and keeping the native culture alive...and the Algonquin Language so vibrant and soothing.
I was wondering how you said Turtle in the Algonquin Language. I rescue turtles web site : www.turtlehouse.org My great grandmother was native. Her name is Rosalie Forget-Despatie-Latour. My great grandfather Theodore Frappier, son of Exear Frappier and Odile Bonabin of St-Denis, married Rosalie Forget-Despatie-Latour, daughter of Louis Forget and Marie Cleophee Tremblaly, on 31 July 1871 at St-Andre Avellin. Unfortunately, I was unable to locate a reference to the marriage of Louis and Cleophee. My understanding from my grandmother is that Rosalie was native and came from La Petite Nation near the Ottawa river. I am searching my native roots as I have always been attracted to totems, dream catchers, birch canoe, Alguonquin Park, Moose and Turtle. Keep up the excellent work. Colette Brown Turtle House |
| Name: | John Tidwell |
| E-mail address: | jtau52@knology.net |
| Comments: | I teach a course on native North Americans to a group of about 75 retirees who attend the Auburn University Academy of Lifelong Learners. Most are retired professors, department heads, school teachers, etc. from throughout the USA. For the first time I have included a session on the Algonquin language and was very pleased to discover your source! I realize it is intended to be used primarily by school children but in this case it's helpful to senior citizens who want to "stretch" their learning! Many thanks.
John Tidwell By the way....I'm also retired - 77 Years old. The teaching job is strictly volunteer and altogether we have about 250 members on roll in what we call AUALL (A You All)which shows our Southern heritage and we are affiliated with Auburn University, Extension Service, Auburn, Alabama. |
| Name: | Sherry Crawford |
| E-mail address: | sherryc@nexicom.net |
| Comments: | Awesome website.. meegwich :)
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| Name: | BAHIR KELDANY |
| E-mail address: | bahir@sympatico.ca |
| Comments: | As an immigrant who came 40 years ago to your country, I am very much interested by your culture and civilization. Please keep this good work and let most on the newcomers, like myself, know about what and who was there centuries ago. |
| Name: | Jonah Lapierre |
| E-mail address: | wonderboy143@hotmail.com |
| Comments: | Keep up the great work, I hope you will continue to teach the language to as many children and youths as you can so that our culture and language will continue to be passed on. my blessings |
| Name: | charlie cuthbert sr. |
| E-mail address: | alexandercuthbertson@yahoo.ca |
| Comments: | neat |
| Name: | Charles A. Cuthbert, Sr. |
| E-mail address: | alexandercuthbertson@yahoo.ca |
| Comments: | Tansi
Best Regards akosi |
| Name: | Allisyn "Free Spirit' Heiberg |
| E-mail address: | alisonheiberg61@shaw.ca |
| Comments: | Opps, sorry for the spelling errors. *reading* & *related*
All our relations.Allisyn |
| Name: | Allisyn "Free Spirit' Heiberg |
| E-mail address: | alisonheiberg61@shaw.ca |
| Comments: | Kwe Kwe my brothers & sisters,
I have been tring to locate my Dad,step-mom,brothers & sisters. I was born Lynn Alison Heiberg,Aug.17,1961 in Sudbury,Ont. I was born to Ted & Wanda Heiberg(nee Gough),although Ted Heiberg is not my biological father. I am of Algonquin descent.In 1967-68, I was living in Turner Valley,Alberta with my mother & siblings.Returning home from school one day,I noticed a First Nations family had set up camp(in a tee-pee)on top of the flats.Later that day my Dad came to the house. I heard him & my mother arguing about me. My Dad wanted to take me with him, but my mother refused.In my heart I know that he is my Dad.As well I would dearly love to know my siblings.I recall my Dad taking my to the store/coffee shop for an ice cream cone. I am a mom of 5 children & it is very important for & to them to know their family as well as their family history & way of life.I am sharing this story in hopes that maybe one of you feading it, may be my relative. Also, I do know that I am somehow relater to the Langs of Algonquin descent,from the Sudbury &/or the Golden Lake areas.In Spirit,Allisyn All our relations. |
| Name: | julie |
| E-mail address: | trollmama@stjoelive.com |
| Comments: | i am of algonquin decent and am interested in learning some of the language. thank you for this site. |
| Name: | Lora |
| E-mail address: | angellady19642003 |
| Comments: | Beautiful language...Awesome history... |
| Name: | danny devo |
| E-mail address: | dcncsetup@ahoo.ca |
| Comments: | my mom is of idian heriate,and she denies it but me i habve indian facialy fatures
,i am a hard worker,and wish to know about my heriate |
| Name: | john mcdonald |
| E-mail address: | johnmcdnld@rogers.com |
| Comments: | just wanted to say hello to someone who is always in my thoughts and who has lost someone close to her. im sorry i could not be there to see you after so many years have past,but i still think of you often and miss you in my heart.to Dolores Kohoko from your uncle john with love. |
| Name: | Marcel Labelle |
| E-mail address: | labelleflowers@aol.com |
| Comments: | Meegwitch for this piece of culture. |
| Name: | Andrea Cady (Provencher) |
| E-mail address: | jaytanxrus@charter.net |
| Comments: | I am a prior student at St James , graduating grade 8 in 1976. My grade 8 teacher was Mr. Killeen. My best friend in grade 8 was Connie Commanda and Dennis Sarazan. (sp). I was also friends with the Whiteducks,the Lavallees and Gregory Pilon. I used to spend almost every weekend on the reservation and help Connie's Grandmother at her store and Campsite. I miss everyone but I moved away from Eganville after grade 9. I live in Washington State in the USA and I just retired from the united states military after 21 years. I was employed as a missile mechanic and was a Sergeant First Class. Let me know what happened to my friends!!!!!! Sincerely, DeeDee Provencher |
| Name: | Elliot Nixon |
| E-mail address: | elliotr@gmail.com |
| Comments: | Thank you so much for takeing the time to put this together. It's so hard to find good reffrences on the internet for the Algonquin language. |
| Name: | Carol Horan |
| E-mail address: | markdalerctransport@bellnet.ca |
| Comments: | kwekwe...enjoyed reading. Ontario-Baptiste Lake was named after my great-grandfather, Chief John Baptiste of the Algonquin Tribe, Golden Lake Band. He left Quebec for some reason and a few people followed him to Ontario where he eventually settled in the Baptiste Lake area. My mother was born and raised in this area. Bancroft was where they found work as adults. Yateman was my mother's maiden name, married name was Woods. I have lots of relatives all over Canada. My father is John Woods, his family is from Ireland. Keep up the good work. |
| Name: | Carol Horan |
| E-mail address: | markdalerctransport@bellnet.ca |
| Comments: | Hello. My mother was Naomi Woods, daughter of Everett Yateman and Annie Baptiste, Annie was the daughter of Chief John Baptiste. My mother's side of the family has a reunion in Bancroft, ON for the Baptiste's usually in July. I missed the one last year. But I look forward to the next one. I enjoyed reading your material. You should contact Cheryl Rorhaback in Belleville for more material. Her family did a huge research for the first reunion and came up with so much material, a lot could be added to your site, for the Golden Lake Band. |