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    Journal article "More on Narragansett Keesuckquand" analyzes Spirit names in A Key into the Language of America by Roger Williams. <>The Aquidneck Indian Council believes Spirit names with terminal affix -it most likely are the locative form. For example, we claim that "Yotaanit" = where the Fire Spirit is, or dwells, or is the cause of this miraculous phenomenon we call "fire" which cooks our food and warms us but punishes us when we have wronged the Spirit World. The translation for other Spirit names with -it or -at are more problematical to translate. Our position comes from Oral Tradition and other Algonquian speaking tribes still blessed with their language. For example, we know the Great Spirit is Keihtan (variable spellings); add -it and we say "Where the Great Spirit is or dwells" or "The House of the Great Spirit in the Southwest." Roger Williams spells words differently--see A Key chapter on Religion.

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    Journal article "More on Narragansett Keesuckquand" analyzes Spirit names in A Key into the Language of America by Roger Williams. <>The Aquidneck Indian Council believes Spirit names with terminal affix -it most likely are the locative form. For example, we claim that "Yotaanit" = where the Fire Spirit is, or dwells, or is the cause of this miraculous phenomenon we call "fire" which cooks our food and warms us but punishes us when we have wronged the Spirit World. The translation for other Spirit names with -it or -at are more problematical to translate. Our position comes from Oral Tradition and other Algonquian speaking tribes still blessed with their language. For example, we know the Great Spirit is Keihtan (variable spellings); add -it and we say "Where the Great Spirit is or dwells" or "The House of the Great Spirit in the Southwest." Roger Williams spells words differently--see A Key chapter on Religion.

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    Prof. G. Aubin Article "More On Narragansett (Language) Keesuckquand"

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    Journal article "More on Narragansett Keesuckquand" analyzes Spirit names in A Key into the Language of America by Roger Williams. <>The Aquidneck Indian Council believes Spirit names with terminal affix -it most likely are the locative form. For example, we claim that "Yotaanit" = where the Fire Spirit is, or dwells, or is the cause of this miraculous phenomenon we call "fire" which cooks our food and warms us but punishes us when we have wronged the Spirit World. The translation for other Spirit names with -it or -at are more problematical to translate. Our position comes from Oral Tradition and other Algonquian speaking tribes still blessed with their language. For example, we know the Great Spirit is Keihtan (variable spellings); add -it and we say "Where the Great Spirit is or dwells" or "The House of the Great Spirit in the Southwest." Roger Williams spells words differently--see A Key chapter on Religion.

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    More on Narragansett Keesuckquànd


    George F. Aubin

    International Journal of American Linguistics


    Vol. 41, No. 3 (Jul., 1975), pp. 239-240 (2 pages)
    Published By: The University of Chicago Press
    https://www.jstor.org/stable/1264545

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