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I think as anthropologists and ethnohistorians we have a responsibility to help
repatriate the Indians ' past in the form of their oral history . As one writer has
remarked , in " giving a past it also helps them toward a future of their own
making ...
I think as anthropologists and ethnohistorians we have a responsibility to help
repatriate the Indians ' past in the form of their oral history . As one writer has
remarked , in " giving a past it also helps them toward a future of their own
making ...
Page 298
It most commonly takes the form - pan , and in Moose Cree , its most basic
function is to indicate imperfective aspect in the past . However , it can also be
used to indicate that an event or state is hypothetical , or more specifically , that
there is ...
It most commonly takes the form - pan , and in Moose Cree , its most basic
function is to indicate imperfective aspect in the past . However , it can also be
used to indicate that an event or state is hypothetical , or more specifically , that
there is ...
Page 300
Significantly here also in both the English and the Cree is the presence of past
tense marking on the verb ( in Cree , the preterit ) . In the English examples
above , ' were ' is past tense ( historically a past tense subjunctive ; the non ...
Significantly here also in both the English and the Cree is the presence of past
tense marking on the verb ( in Cree , the preterit ) . In the English examples
above , ' were ' is past tense ( historically a past tense subjunctive ; the non ...
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