Vina Smith: Washing (2015)

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Note: This anecdote is about 5 and a half minutes long, and was spoken in English and Karuk. Only Karuk sections are transcribed below.

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[1]	vaa pananítaat uum tupíthxah pananúsaanva koovúra vúra.
	My mother washed all our clothes.

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[2]	pananítaat vúra koovúra upíthxah.
	My mother washed all (the clothes).

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[3]	tupíthxah pakoovúra pananúsaanva koovúra.
	She washed them all, all our clothes.

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[4]	vaa, xas vúra vaa uum vúra uum chéemyaach, káru uum vúra vaa pu'aapúnmutihara fâat uum pawashing machine.
	And she was quick, and she didn't even know what a washing machine was.

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[5]	vaa káan tupíthxah.
	She washed them there (in the back of the house).

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[6]	hãã, hâari upáthriihti káru.
	Yes, sometimes it was even raining.

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[7]	xás káru nuu aah nukyáati îikam.
	And we made a fire outside.

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[8]	xás vaa káan kêechas vúra páramva pa'íshaha.
	We had to heat the water there.

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[9]	ipáramva pa'íshaha vaa káan.
	You heated the water there.

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[10]	oo, vúra uum ikyáakaam.
	Oh, it was hard.

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[11]	vaa vúra ip pa'aapúnmuti vaa vúra kich vaa kuméekrii.
	We only knew that kind of living.

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[12]	hãã, vaa vúra kich i'aapúnmuti vaa kuméekrii.
	Yes, you only knew that kind of living.

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