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Maoto’kiiksi omansstaamowaiksi otsitskiitapiau = All women-society’s lodgepoles were left behind. It’s near Aakii awa’ysskohto = Women’s point. (Southern Alberta) Early-tatanga woweyahgey wakan = Sacred buffalo guardian mountain (Alberta)

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Gugumijinawenaq = Place of our grandmothers (Gaspe Peninsula). Umiaminiqtalik = Wrecked boat left behind (Nunavut), near Immutaarrvik = Food cache with an old can of powdered milk. These places are called Erebus and Terror Bay today, which tells you where these names come from.

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