AQUAI

Our Pequot/Mohegan Aquai word means hello, when meeting someone in passing, a friendly Aquai as you go by.

Aquai is our friendship word for hello or I pass in peace, we use to tap our chest with our left hand and open palm straight out as a friendly way of showing no weapons however, we learned the hard way that the Plains Indians and Canadian Indians have a very different understanding for that move so we stopped using it except at our gatherings and Paw-paus!

We have no word for good-by, we use the same words Aquai or  Aquine, while on our way, this time, with the left hand starting from the heart, palm up and straight out, heart high.

While you are walking from the area you are always welcome back so your good-by in not needed.

AQUINE

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.

http://home.earthlink.net/~sachemuncas/id2.html

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?

http://home.earthlink.net/~sachemuncas/index.html/

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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I hope that you are as interested in my people, culture and ceremonies as I am of yours?

Thank-you (Taw-but-ni) for your visit

Sachem Walkingfox

left hander native Americans were not necessarily haft handed

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Le Meux Picardie France

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Native American, left-handed

left hander native Americans were not necessarily haft handed ,our ceremonies were by the use of the left hand.

The correct way to gift an American Native is from your left hand to their left hand.

If the gift is words, then from your mouth with your left hand to the left shoulder of that person, which you should know is the closest to the heart.

http://mysmudgingblog.blogspot.com/2011/06/native-american-gift-protocol.html

It should not be a surprise as to how our ancestors knew that the heart is closer to our left side then to the right side, after all they needed to feed the family.

So, through the years our ceremonies reflected this knowledge by sacred parts to the ceremony were from left to right.

http://mysmudgingblog.blogspot.com/2011/06/native-american-gift-protocol.html

http://mysmudgingblog.blogspot.com/2011/06/native-american-gifting-tobacco-to_14.html

http://mysmudgingblog.blogspot.com/2012/06/left-hand-ceremonies-are-sacred.html

Smudging a child at a native American funeral

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Medinah City Profile Medinah Illinois

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Looking for information on why do they smudge a child at a native funeral?

Two thing must be know first, you came to my website and blogger so do not forget that they are written mostly about my people on the East Coast.

The most important thing to remember is that Smudging is just another away to start your prayers.

http://walkingfox.tripod.com/id9.html

http://mysmudgingblog.blogspot.com/2011/10/does-smudging-get-rid-of-good-spirits.html

While at one of our funerals, we like to allow non natives to show respect first if possible, we do smudge, so yes we also smudge a child, with respect to age, this is done to help the child to get through a funeral plus to get a child use to praying!