Fritz Hansen: "Mourning Dove Young Man Gambles away his Doodle Bug Grandmother's Dress" (1930)

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[1]	uknîi
	once.upon.a.time

uknîi.

[2]	ataháriva	kun-áraarahi-tih-anik
	always	3pl(>3s)-live.(pl.)-DUR-ANC

They were living (there).

[3]	uumkun	váa	kári	kari	áraar-as-hanik
	they	so	then	then	human-PL-ANC

They were still people.

[4]	pimnanihtanákaanich	uum	afíshnihanich-hanik
	mourning.dove	3.SG	young.man.(dimin.)-ANC

Mourning dove was a young man.

[5]	xas	uum	vúra	váa	kich	u-kupí-tih-anik	p-óo-thtii-tih-anik
	then	3.SG	Intensive	so	only	3s(>3)-do-DUR-ANC	NOMZ-3s(>3)-gamble-DUR-ANC

And all that he used to do was to gamble.

[6]	chavúra	pâanpay	vúra	tá	kun-chífich
	finally	after.while	Intensive	PERF	3pl(>3s)-beat

And later on all at once they beat him.

[7]	vúra	koovúra	pa-mú-'uup	tá	kun-chífichfip	vúra
	Intensive	all	the-3sPOSS-possession	PERF	3pl(>3s)-beat.completely	Intensive

They won from him all that he had.

[8]	púfaat	vúra	tá	pa-mú-'uup
	nothing	just	PERF	the-3sPOSS-possession

He didn't have anything.

[9]	tá	kun-chífich
	PERF	3pl(>3s)-beat

They beat him.

[10]	chavúra	pâanpay	iinâak	u-p-vôonfuruk
	finally	after.while	indoors	3s(>3)-ITER-enter.a.house

Then a little later on he came into the living house (from the sweathouse).

[11]	iinâak	pa-mú-kiit	ú-krii
	indoors	the-3sPOSS-maternal.grand-relative.through.woman	3s(>3)-live

His grandmother was home.

[12]	xas	pa-mú-kîit	u-peer	tâak	pa-mi-yáfus	ní-xraam
	then	the-3sPOSS-maternal.grand-relative.through.woman	3s(>3)-say.to	give.me!	the-2sPOSS-wear.dress	1s(>3)-bet

And he told his grandmother: “Give me your dress. Let me bet it.”

[13]	ta'ítam	u-'êeh-een	pa-mu-yáfus
	so	3s(>3)-give-ANT	the-3sPOSS-wear.dress

Then she gave him her dress.

(Harrington's note: She took off her dress and gave it to him, that is why the Doodle Bug is so poor now, wears no dress to cover up her meat.)

[14]	váa	ta	ifuchtîimich	váa	tápaan	u-xraam	pa-mú-kiit	mu-yáfus
	that	PERF	last.one	that	must(?)	3s(>3)-bet	the-3sPOSS-maternal.grand-relative.through.woman	3sPOSS-dress

Then at last he even bet his grandmother's dress.

[15]	xás	vaa	kúna	kun-páxeep
	then	that	in.addition	3pl(>3s)-win.from

And they won it from him.

[16]	xás	ú-xrar
	then	3s(>3)-weep

Then he cried.

[17]	táay	nik	tá	kun-chífich	vúra	pu-'ixrara-tih-ara	váa	xás	u-'ívur	pa-mú-kiit	mu-yáfus
	much	a.little	PERF	3pl(>3s)-beat	Intensive	NEG-weep-DUR-NEG	that	then	3s(>3)-cry.for	the-3sPOSS-maternal.grand-relative.through.woman	3sPOSS-dress

They had won lots of things from him but he never cried, all he cried for was his grandmother's dress.

[18]	víri	váa	vúra	payváhiim	kári	u-'ívun-ti	pa-kun-páxeep-anik	pa-mú-kiit	mu-yáfus
	so	so	Intensive	nowadays	then	3s(>3)-cry.for-DUR	the-3pl(>3s)-win.from-ANC	the-3sPOSS-maternal.grand-relative.through.woman	3sPOSS-dress

He is crying for it now yet, because they won it from him, grandmother's dress.

[19]	xás	pa-mú-kiit	yúxnaam	u-'íripkurih-anik	kóova	u-xvíipha-anik
	then	the-3sPOSS-maternal.grand-relative.through.woman	sand	3s(>3)-dig.hole-ANC	so	3s(>3)-be.angry-ANC

And his grandmother, she dug into the sand, she got so mad.

[20]

payváhiim

váa

káan

vúra

su'

ú-krii

vákay

payváhiim

vakay-'ámtaapkunish

yúxnaam

su'

ú-krii

nowadays

so

there

Intensive

inside

3s(>3)-live

worm

nowadays

worm-gray

sand

inside

3s(>3)-live

Now she lives in there, she's a bug now, a gray bug, lives in the sand.

[21]	kóova	u-thvuyxâah-anik	pa-mu-yáfus
	so	3s(>3)-care-ANC	the-3sPOSS-dress

She felt so sad about her dress.

[22]	xás	yúxnaam	u-'íripkurih-anik
	then	sand	3s(>3)-dig.hole-ANC

She dug a hole in the sand.

[23]	xás	vaa	káan	u-pishunvávaan-anik
	then	that	there	3s(>3)-bury.oneself-ANC

She buried herself there.

[24]	kupánakanakana
	the.end

Kupánakanakana.

[25]	chéemyaach	ík	vúra	ishyâat	i-mshîinaa-vish
	quickly	must	Intensive	king.salmon	2s(>3)-shine.this.way.upriver-FUT

Shine early, Spring Salmon, hither up river.