AQUINE was first posted
on our original website at s.n.e.t.com which no longer exist.
So we posted it on our
EarthLink account website.
They only have dial up
so we are now posting on our blogger postings.
The first time that
this word was posts on a website some years ago, no native person used it on a
website or even when bloggers started, on any blog?
Would this be that this is a misused word ?
or
Could it be just like
everything else written on the internet about my people from the early 1990 on?
Just cut and paste then
call it your words?
Because we are still
receiving many inquiries about the meaning of the word Aquine,
I am putting our answer
on my blogs.
My question is,
"why the
Traditional American Eastern Woodland people are not also answering this
question"?
Just like the word
(Aquai), this is a Pequot/Mohegan word used time and time again by my Elders,
now Ancestors.
While growing up on my
reservation ( Reservation is a European word for Village or jail), Uncasvillage,
there were never more than 13 families teaching our history, now there are
1.000's
?
We were taught our
language correctly.
Aquine means Peace, or
I am a friend, I come in peace.
When using this word
one would have both arms out about heart high with hands palm down to show that
you have no weapon.
We have no word for
good-by, we use the same word Aquine, while on our way, this time, with the
left hand starting from the heart, palm up and straight out, heart high.
The Pequot/Mohegan word
Aquai means hello, when meeting someone in passing, a friendly Aquai as you go
by.
If you have a question or comment
just click on the comment just below this blog.
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