Violet Super: Violet's Dog (1989)

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[1]	pananichishíh'anamahach itháan káruk nu'ípasroovat, káan úkrii chishih'aneekyáavaan.
	Once we took my little dog upriver, there was a veterinarian there.

[2]	xás úpiip" uum vúra páy chu'íveesh.
	And he said, "This one is going to die.

[3]	xâatik vúra nu kviit-hívath."
	"Let's just put him to sleep."

[4]	xás nipiip, puu, xâatik vúra nipípas.
	And I said, "No, let me just take him home.

[5]	xâatik vúra, uum, vúra hárivari u'ívahaak.
	"Just let him be, whenever he may die.

[6]	naa vúra pu naxútihan, kíri kunikviit-hívath.
	I just didn't want them to put him to sleep.

[7]	xás káruk vúra... itíhaan vúra ithéekxaram xúus ni'éethti.
	And upriver ... I was taking care of him all night.

[8]	táníkfuuksip, táni'áki, aas tá ni'akih.
	I'd get up, I'd feed him, I'd give him water.

[9]	chavúra u'aráriihkanha.
	Finally he recovered.

[10]	uum tákunpiip, pamúaasravarak íshaha, sú' aasrávar.
	People said, "He's got water on his brain, inside the brain."

[11]	káru hôoy akâayva 'îin kun kêemish kun'ákihanik, kéemish u'ávanik.
	"And somewhere, someone, they ... they fed him poison, he ate poison."

[12]	xás nipíti" pûuhara."
	And I kept saying no."

[13]	xás kanéepeenti, " pamichíshiih mít uum êen úkuuyvanik.
	And they were telling me, "A board fell on your dog.

[14]	vaa kumá'ii paxáas tu'iv, pu'uum vúra fâat kumakêemish áamtihan."
	"That's why he almost died, he didn’t eat any kind of poison."

[15]	xás payêem uum vúra tu'aráriihkanha, puhúun vúra íinatihan.
	And now he's well, there's nothing wrong with him.

[16]	káruma káru taay u'ôorahiti pa'ánav patá níkvar, pani'ákihti.
	And in fact it cost a lot, the medicine that I bought, that I was giving him.

[17]	payêem puhúun íinatihan.
	Now there’s nothing wrong with him.