Marine-on-St. Croix

“Ne-mehotatse. I love you . . .”

… The word love itself can be either mehot or mehosane. Each mean ‘love.’ Ne-tseoneseom-mehotase containing a second syllable means ‘I really sincerely or truly love you.’ It sounds so much more sincere and loving in Cheyenne. ‘I love you’ is almost sterile-sounding. It’s supposed to convey emotions that are so deep and caring. I can say ‘Ne-mehotatse.’ In our language it seems to have much more power.”

~Dr. Henrietta Mann, in Project 562 by Matika Wilbur

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This place is on the traditional territory of the Wahpekute and Očhéthi Šakówiŋ nations. (Crowdsourced info compiled by Native-Land.ca. Please visit the nations’ websites to learn more.) We support indigenous land rights and the Land Back movement.

 

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