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| Once upon a time there were two Cree woman who lived on a rez along the train tracks. One day these two Cree woman decide to do some berry picking down the tracks. So they head off down the tracks and walk over the train track bridge down the tracks to where they know about this big field full of blue berries. After spending a few hours filling up their baskets they decide to head back to the rez. While walking on the tracks they begin to walk over the train track bridge when all of a sudden one of the Cree girls has to take a piss. One of them sayz: hey! I have to take a pee! The other goes: Geez you! can't you wait till we get to the other side of the tracks?..! NO, she sayz, I have to take a pee right now, I can't hold it any longer! The other sayz: Well ok then geez you!, go piss between them tiles and I'll watch and make sure nobody is looking or coming. So the Cree girl lifts up her dress and squats down ready to take a piss when all of a sudden she notices something below her in the river. HEY! she sayz, I can't pee here! The other cree girl sayz: geez whats the matter now, just pee! The other ohe sayz: I can't , theres a canoe full of moose meat right below me! Her friend sayz: really! where? let me see! So she walks to where her friend is and takes a look at this canoe full of moosemeat. Then she sayz: That's not a canoe full of moose meat! That's your reflection!!! |
| Indin Speak: AlterNative: an individual who was born and raised in the non-Indian culture but recently "discovered" a "hidden" Indian ancestor so now uses pith Indian phrases, assumes a name such as Laughing Rainbow or Dreams of Eagles, calls all Indian people Brother & Sister and wears genuine Hong Kong beadwork. Ayeee: Used as an add-on statement. Blease (bee eye eez): an affliction within the Bureau of Indian Affairs characterized by the inability to keep track of millions of dollars. Commodify: uncanny ability of Indian women to convert the ingredients of any standard cookbook recipe to commodity ingredients such as powdered milk, powdered eggs and canned meat. Coyote Love: When you don't want to wake up your rugged snag, so you chew your arm off instead in order to get away. Disunderstanding: when non-Indians think that they understand why tribes and individual Indians are the way they are but attribute any and all behavior to the culture or the race. Ennit: Dialect slang for "isn't that right?" Fishbite: Indian version of a wedgie. Fordrum: The instrument used for singing purposes when a regular drum is not available; usually the dented hood of a one-eyed Ford. Frybreadth: A unit of measurement based on the standard size of a piece of auntie's frybread. FuGahwi Tribe: What dad says when going to an unknown city for a powwow and refusing to ask directions..."Where the Fugahwi???!" Goot: Dialect of "good". Indin Bullet: A rock, but not any ordinary rock. The kind that you use when you're walking and a mean dog wants to bite you . If you are out of bullets, you can bend down and pretend you are picking up a bullet and the dog will instinctively run away. Indinferior: a manifestation of self- oppression; the practice of Indians looking down on other Indians for either not speaking the language, not being full-blood, not participating in ceremonies or powwows, or not living on the rez, or not wearing braids, or not having..etc., etc.,... |
| Jacked-up: 1. Used to describe something that went wrong. Like, someone stealing the tires off your truck "Now that's Jacked." 2. Also used to describe a person who is drunk. "I was all jacked-up last night." Moccashoe: Contemporary dancer footwear designed by beading the top of tennis shoes or awasocks instead of making maccasins the old-fashioned way. Not even: Same as "I'm sureeee" or "whatever" when you know someone is kidding or hope they are. Klamath people's version: "Ayyee, you lie." Oh Yeah, Huh: Pretending Interest. Used in response to someone talking so much that hawks are riding up the thermal being created. A useful tool when a 2-year old is questioning everything. Powwowvow: the standard pledge of the powwow Romeo, "Sure baby, I'll meet you at the next powwow. You're the only jingle dress dancer for me. Really! Look at this face. Would I lie?" Rezercize: The involuntary health regime of walking everywhere on the rez since your Indin car broke down for good. Rugged: Used to describe the unsavory element. "Your snag was rugged last night." Skinship: The eventual relative connection that all indian people discover within 10 minutes of meeting each other. Snag -ged, -ger: To pick up or hook up with another person in a romantic way. Well, sometimes a romantic way. Sometimes it's just who you wake up with. Tribalistic: To become irrational & incoherent upon hearing the latest self-serving, short-sighted and illogical decision made by the local tribal council. Visa-cheese: Mode of exchange in which a block of commodity cheese can purchase other goods or services. |
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