McLeod Lake Tse'Khene First Nation
Website developed and maintained by Nathan Paul Prince
a member of the McLeod Lake Indian Band
Created July 2006           Revised summer 2009

TRADITIONAL LANGUAGE

da-nu-ch’e-a’

ke-yih

se ke-yih

‘u-dze’

‘u-ch’oo-dze’

‘u-dus-tl’us

‘u-ts’u-ne’

‘u-tsun

chu-ba

gat

gat ka

hi-yelh

lu-du-so

bes

ts’a’

‘e-ga

‘oo-sa’

tselh

tsuz 

lu-gloo

lu-bot

tus

da-get

khe-sus

chos

tse

kwun

mi-ghe

‘u-za

des-dli-dzu’

‘u-da-ghe

ya-choo-we’

‘on-da-ghe

ke-bat cho

koh

tsa-chin

koh nu-yeh-i

‘al

dah-dus-gho

ke-ni-yeh-i

meh-k’e-ts’u-geh-i

no-ze

dubedzi

dutl’udzi

‘oo-zeh-ts’o


(greeting)

area of the land, (where you live)

(my) area

heart

tree bark

paper

bone

meat

poplar (tree)

spruce (tree)

spruce lake

traps

sack

knife

plate

spoon

bucket or pail

axe

wood for burning

nail

cup

walking stick

fish gaff

carrying bag (pack)

feathers

rock

fire

lake

sand

“where water goes into the lake”

cave

large body of water (i.e. ocean)

light from the moon

moccasins with a high top

house or home

food cache

plant that is in a house

boughs of a branch

tree moss

seeds

pack board

skunk

blue

green

listens (hears)
"We will teach our Children where our Elders walked."

Tse'Khene Elders Society Vision