Times of day

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Times of day
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Time and the concept in Potawatomi

• Time was never important to the Potawatomi
  people. You did something until you got it done
  or you went without. The most important mark of
  time was in the seasons and moons. We followed a
  13 moon cycle. Each moon was descriptive of what
  was done during that month. For example maple
  syrup month or Leaves changing color month. We
  will cover all of the months in an upcoming
  lesson.

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The concept of hours and minutes

• These also tended to make little difference until
  modern times to our people. You may have heard
  the expression running on indian time. Hence
  running behind or getting something done in your
  own good time. We are going to explain in the
  next lesson how we talk about time today as our
  world has certainly become very dependent on time.

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Times of day

• In this lesson we are going to focus on different
  times of day. These would be seen as much more
  important to our ancestors than exact time.
  Besides that our ancestors would have been very
  adapt at telling exact time by looking at the
  sun. Today if someone asked one of us to look at
  the sun and tell them what time it was we would
  most probally be lost or at least a little off.

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Some words for times of day

• Some of these words have been introduced in
  previous lessons but not explained in more depth
  until now.
• Ngom- today or now.
• Wabek- tomorrow.
• Waben- Morning.
• Pkonyak- evening
• Geshep early morning

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How do we say time?

• It is indicated by the letters pi.
• For example ode jo pi means at this time.
• Bama pi- which is used at goodbye means literally
  at a later time.
• We cant use this pi alone but will talk a little
  more about it in the next lesson.

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• Bos geshep very early morning
• Zheba- this past morning
• Dbeket- night
• Aptedbeket- midnight (half way through the night)
• Dbekok- last night.
• Gishkepkonyak- dark ( after evening)

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• Gishget- day
• Nawkwe- noon nawkwek- at noon.
• Gishnawkwe- afternoon
• Bgeshmok- evening (the time when the sun sets)

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Our language is exstremely descriptive

• As I am certain you can see from the literal
  translation of many of these words as well as
  talking about the months themselves.

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Word of caution

• Dont become to worried about what a word
  literally means. I only tell these to you because
  I find them interesting. As you learn more of the
  language you will understand why these words mean
  what they do. If you worry to much about the
  literal you will miss the everyday usuage the
  word is used for. Hence instead of hearing
  aptedbeket and thinking night you might think
  lets see half way through the evening. While you
  are thinking that the rest of the sentence may
  have gone by.