What is your favorite color?  Everyone has a color that inspires them, a color that reminds them of a special memory, a color that soothes their turbulent emotions and a color that heals them.  Creation is filled with so many natural colors and of course for those of us who are gifted with vision, we are blessed to see so many colors within creation.  This lesson shares how our Wolastoqey language distinguishes colors that apply to life and colors that apply to things.  Enjoy learning to identify colors of creation!

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Nkisi Tehc / Can Do's

Upon completion of this lesson,

Tpostomon Latuwewakon/ Listen to Wolastoqey

  • I can hear the story and recognize colors
  • I can distinguish colors related to subjects and objects

Wolastoqewatu/ Speak Wolastoqey

  • I can repeat and recite the story of sacred colors
  • I can begin to use in speech the various colors

Okitomon Latuwewakon/ Read Wolastoqey

  • I can recognize text relating to colors
  • I can distinguish between singular and plural texts

Wikhomon Latuwewakon/ Write Wolastoqey

  • I can write and design labels using vocabulary for colors
  • I can write the story of sacred colors and share with others

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Land Acknowledgement

We would like to acknowledge that the Wolastoq Language and Culture Center is located on the traditional unceded and unsurrendered territory of Wolastoqiyik (Maliseet). This territory is covered by the Treaties of Peace and Friendship which Wolastoqiyik (Maliseet) first signed with the British Crown in 1725. The treaties did not deal with surrender of lands and resources but in fact recognized Wolastoqey title and established the rules for what was to be an ongoing relationship between nations.

"We are directed by the government to tell you that the English have no design to take your country or any of your lands from you: or to deprive you of any of your just Rights or Privileges"
(November, 1720, English Treaty Commissioner).

Note: The treaty Commissioners were appointed by the British Crown to negotiate treaties with Wabanaki nations in the 1700s. The Wabanaki nations included the Wolastoqiyik, Mi'kmaq, Passamaquoddy, and Penobscots.
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