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  • Ad liest twies de siiz af a tchi wa wa me finks. mien a gurl 10 -11 pounz.

    Okays, yoo tipe whut I sez… - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger? 2009

  • Jèrri a un lian spécial auve la Couronne Angliaîche tch'est l'rêsultat d'chein tchi s'pâssit en 1204.

    Historical GIPpage: Jersey 1204-2004 marypcb 2004

  • They immediately named this lake Ke-tchi-ne-bissing, which name it bears to this day.

    History of the Ottawa and Chippewa Indians of Michigan Andrew J. Blackbird

  • They found the passage after making a very deep hole which to this day is said to be yet visible at Ke-tchi-ne-bissing.

    History of the Ottawa and Chippewa Indians of Michigan Andrew J. Blackbird

  • The words "Me-no" and "Maw-tchi" or "Mau-tchi," do not change when used with other words, and they are the most common adjectives in the Ottawa and Chippewa languages; they are used as adverbs, as well as adjectives.

    History of the Ottawa and Chippewa Indians of Michigan Andrew J. Blackbird

  • A woman went down to the beach of lake Ke-tchi-ne-bissing to wash some of her clothing, taking along her infant child, which was tied up on a board, according to the fashion of the Indians.

    History of the Ottawa and Chippewa Indians of Michigan Andrew J. Blackbird

  • No greater insult can be given to Indians than to speak evil of their dead; for, say they, "The dead cannot speak for themselves; and the living that will not defend them are worse than Mau-tchi Manito (the Devil)."

    Indian Superstitions and Legends. 1898

  • Thus it was, that those tribes of the great valley of the Ottawa moved westward along the northern limits of Lake Huron and Lake Michigan and all about Ot-chip-we-ki-tchi-gami (Lake Superior), where many of them remain to this day.

    Indian Superstitions and Legends. 1898

  • There is a tradition among the Ottawa branch of the great Algonquin family, believed to this day, that, centuries ago, their first parents migrated westward from the sea-coast, near the mouth of the St. Lawrence River, and settled in the valley of the Ottawa River in Canada, where they lived for untold centuries, and that their main village was at a place they named Ke-tchi-nebis-sing, which name it still bears.

    Indian Superstitions and Legends. 1898

  • The magicians then declared that the country was ruled by Mau-tchi Manito, the evil one, who was an enemy seeking to do them all the harm possible; that all the misfortunes which had befallen them came from that source alone; and that their only means of safety was to seek a new land toward the setting sun.

    Indian Superstitions and Legends. 1898

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