Omàmiwininiwak · Algonquin
The river placed first
Kichi Sìbì was not given as property. It was given as a teacher with a season for every instruction.
On the water the English renamed the Ottawa, the Omàmiwininiwak kept an older name in the mouth: , the great river. It was moving before the villages, before the family names, before anyone cut a path down to drink. In the teaching, water was placed first, because water would remember everything that came after.
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