Violet Super: Violet's Picture (2004)
Primary participant: Violet Super (speaker)
Date: 2004
Project identifier: VSu-02
Publication details: Unpublished (recorded in Orleans, CA on February 26, 2004; transcribed and translated by William Bright, Vina Smith, Jim Ferrara, and Susan Gehr)
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[1] |
ithâan mít káru naa kári nîinamich,
nanítaat upiip, "
sáruk nivâarameesh,
ka'tim'íin.
|
Once, I was also still little, my mother said, "I'm going downhill, to Katimin. |
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[2] |
xasík peeschool upvôonupukat,
vaa kúuk i'uuméesh."
|
When the school has let out, you'll go there (to Katimin)." |
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[3] |
xás panipvôonupukat,
xás kári káruk ni'árihroov.
|
And when it had let out, then I went upriver. |
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[4] |
xás káan nikmárihivrik pihnîich wagon áxak padonkey kunithyúruti.
|
And I met him, an old man, two donkeys were pulling a wagon. |
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[5] |
xás néepeenti, "
chí payôok ihyárihish,
payôok áxak padonkeys."
|
And he told me, "Stand right here, right here by the two donkeys." |
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[6] |
xás naa tá ni'ay,
ta néemuusti.
|
And I was scared, they were looking at me. |
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[7] |
yiimúsich xas nihyárihish.
|
I stood a little way off. |
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[8] |
xas xára xás axmáy u'ípak papíkchah,
Riverside xás uparamsîip.
|
And after a long time, one day the picture arrived, it arrived from Riverside. |
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[9] |
áta vaa káan ukrêenik papihníich.
|
I guess that's where the old man lived. |
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