Nettie Ruben: "The Pool in Big Rock" (1957)

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[1]	chîinach	asiktávaan	u-krêe-nik
	placename	woman	3s(>3)-live-ANC

A woman once lived at chîinach (upriver opposite Orleans).

[2]	xás	vúra	uum	vik-a-kêemich
	then	Intensive	3.SG	weave-DEVERB-bad.(dimin.)

And she was a poor weaver.

[3]	vúra	pu-'ikvarish-tih-ap
	Intensive	NEG-buy-DUR-NEG

People didn't buy (baskets) from her.

[4]	xás	u-xús	tîi	máruk	chinach'ás-ak	kán-paathkirih-i	pa-nini-sárum
	then	3s(>3)-think	let...	uphill	Big.Rock-Locative	1s(>3)-throw.into-IMPER	the-1sPOSS-Jeffrey.pine.root

And she thought, "Let me throw my pine-roots in the water, uphill at Big Rock.

[5]	kíri	naa	káru	íshkiit	na-'árihish
	I.wish	1sg.	also	lucky	1s-become

Let me become lucky too!"

[6]	xás	u-paathkúrih-ar
	then	3s(>3)-throw.into-go.to

So she went to throw them in.

[7]	káan	xás	mah'íitnihach	u-papivan-kôo-ti	pa-mu-sárum	ishkêesh-ak	hôoy	kích	t-óo	p-thívruuhruprav
	there	then	early.morning	3s(>3)-go.search.for-to-DUR	the-3sPOSS-Jeffrey.pine.root	river-Locative	where	only	PERF-3s(>3)	ITER-float.out.through

Then she went early in the morning to look for her pine-roots there in the river, (she wondered) where they had floated out.

[8]	víri	îifuti	u-thívruuh-tih
	so	sure.enough	3s(>3)-float-DUR

Sure enough, they were floating (there).

[9]	xás	u-p-tâatripaa
	then	3s(>3)-ITER-hook.toward.land

So she pulled them out.

[10]	púyava	p-oo-táyiithh-ara-ti	yíiv	vúra	tá	kun-'aramsípriin	kún-ikvárish-tih	xáat	káru	vik-a-kêemich
	you.see	NOMZ-3s(>3)-lash-INST-DUR	far	Intensive	PERF	3pl(>3s)-start.out	3pl(>3s)-buy-DUR	may	also	weave-DEVERB-bad.(dimin.)

So when she lashed the base of a basket with them, people came from far away, they bought from her, (though) she might be a poor weaver.

[11]	púyava	pa-sárum	ánav	t-u-'árihish
	you.see	the-Jeffrey.pine.root	medicine	PERF-3s(>3)-become

The pine-roots had become medicine.

[12]	káru	vaa	káan	ávansa	u-pakxuyvîichvu-ti	pa-káan	t-u-'iipkúrih
	also	so	there	man	3s(>3)-seek.good-luck-DUR	NOMZ-there	PERF-3s(>3)-dive

And a man is looking for good luck there when he dives in there.

[13]	vúra	hâari	t-óo-síinvar	hâari	tá	pu-p-itnúprih-v-ara
	Intensive	sometime	PERF-3s(>3)-drown	sometime	PERF	NEG-ITER-look.through-ESS-NEG

Sometimes he drowns, sometimes he doesn’t come back up.

[14]	itha-hárinay	xás	t-óo	p-thívruuhruprih-va
	one-year	then	PERF-3s(>3)	ITER-float.in.through-ESS

Then in a year he comes back up.

[15]	peechkáanviichv-aan-hanik	pa-'ávansa
	gamble-Agentive-ANC	the-man

Once a man was a gambler.

[16]	xás	kun-chífich
	then	3pl(>3s)-beat

And they beat him.

[17]	vúra	tá	pura fâat	thiiná-tih-ara	vúra	tá	kun-chifíchfip
	Intensive	PERF	nothing	have-DUR-NEG	Intensive	PERF	3pl(>3s)-beat.completely

He didn’t have anything, they beat him completely.

[18]	xás	p-oo-xús	máruk	kan-vâaram-i
	then	NOMZ-3s(>3)-think	uphill	1s(>3)-go-IMPER

And he thought, “Let me go uphill!”

[19]	t-u-'iipkúrih-ar	xáat	káru	ni-'iv
	PERF-3s(>3)-dive-go.to	may	also	1s(>3)-die

He went to dive in, (thinking), "I may even die."

[20]	tá	kun-koohímachva
	PERF	3pl(>3s)-pity

(The spirits) took pity on him.

[21]	itha-hárinay	t-u-sínmoo
	one-year	PERF-3s(>3)-be.absent

He was gone for a year.

[22]	pa-'ára	papivan-kôo-tih-an	kéevniikich
	the-person	go.search.for-to-DUR-Participial	old.woman.(dimin.)

The person who was going to look for him was an old woman.

[23]	uum	pa-'áraar	pápim-tih-an	itha-hárinay	vúra	pu-maah-tíh-ap
	3.SG	the-human	look.for-DUR-Participial	one-year	Intensive	NEG-see-DUR-NEG

She, the person looking for him, didn’t see him for a year.

[24]	xás	vúra	mah'íitnihach	pishíich	u-'imkatáxrah-varak
	then	Intensive	early.morning	first	3s(>3)-be.bright-down.from.upriver

And (when she looked) the light was first coming down from upriver, early in the morning.

[25]	árus	u-'átivu-tih
	seed.basket	3s(>3)-carry.in.a.burden.basket-DUR

She carried a seed-basket.

[26]	ithâan	kuma-máh'iit	u-má	pa-chánchaaf	yíiv	á'	vúra	ú-krii
	once	3sPOSS-morning	3s(>3)-see	the-foam	far	above	Intensive	3s(>3)-live

One morning she saw the foam was up high.

[27]	xás	pa-chánchaaf	páy	ú-nish	pa-chánchaaf	u-taxyásur
	then	the-foam	this	3s(>3)-do	the-foam	3s(>3)-push.apart.with.hands

So she did like this to the foam, she separated the foam with her hands.

[28]	víri-va	kuma-suruk	pa-'ávansa	u-p-êeth-ruprav
	so-so	3sPOSS-under	the-man	3s(>3)-ITER-carry-out.through

There she took the man out from underneath it.

[29]	pa-mú-'iish	uum	tá	púfaat	u-theekvárahi-tih
	the-3sPOSS-flesh	3.SG	PERF	nothing	3s(>3)-be.very.thin-DUR

His flesh was all gone by now, he was like a skeleton.

[30]	árus-ak	sú'	t-óo	p-thaanámnih
	seed.basket-Locative	inside	PERF-3s(>3)	ITER-put.into

So she put him inside the seed-basket.

[31]	xás	iinâak	t-u-p-aatí-furuk
	then	indoors	PERF-3s(>3)-ITER-carry.in.a.burden.basket-indoors

And she carried him back into the house.

[32]	víri-va	itha-hárinay	pu-kín-maah-tih-ap
	so-so	one-year	NEG-3pl>3pl-see-DUR-NEG

People didn’t see him for a year.

[33]	itha-hárinay	u-tháaniv
	one-year	3s(>3)-sit

He lay (there) for a year.

[34]	xás	u-yvúruk-ti	sakankoorée-kpat
	then	3s(>3)-rub-DUR	leg-bone.of.deer-marrow

And she rubbed deer’s leg-bone marrow on him.

[35]	vaa	u-'íif-ti	pa-mú-'iish
	so	3s(>3)-grow-DUR	the-3sPOSS-flesh

Thus his flesh grew.

[36]	púyava	vaa	itha-hárinay	t-óo	yvúruk	p-éekpat
	you.see	so	one-year	PERF-3s(>3)	rub	the-marrow

So she rubbed marrow on him for a year.

[37]	púyava	itha-hárinay	xás	tá	yav
	you.see	one-year	then	PERF	good

So in a year he was all right.

[38]	koovura-'îin	pa-tá	kun-'áakup	chí	nu-thtîi-ti
	all-TOPIC	NOMZ-PERF	3pl(>3s)-challenge	soon	1pl(>3)-gamble-DUR

Everybody challenged him, "Let’s gamble!"

[39]	púyava	vúra	uum	yíchaach	t-óo	kyâafip	pá-'uup
	you.see	Intensive	3.SG	together	PERF-3s(>3)	make.completely	the-possession

And he won all their possessions.

[40]	t-u-yaas'áraaraha
	PERF-3s(>3)-be.rich

He became rich.