Ararahih'urípih
A Dictionary and Text Corpus of the Karuk Language

Nettie Ruben: "Coyote's Homecoming" (second telling) (1957)

Primary participants: Nettie Ruben (speaker), William Bright (researcher)
Date: 1957
Project identifier: WB_KL-02a
Publication details: William Bright, The Karok Language (1957), pp. 168-171, Text 2A
Audio Source: http://cla.berkeley.edu/item/17942
Additional contributors: Anna Currey (annotator), Line Mikkelsen (annotator)

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[1] káruk iinâak káan tá kun'áamvunaa.
Upriver they ate there in the living house.
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[2] kunxus, " uknamxánahich chími nu'íhukanveesh."
They thought, "We'll go flower-dance at uknamxánahich."
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(Bright: "uknamxánahich is a pond near Camp Creek, locally known as The Frog Pond.")

[3] kári xás kári púyava iinâak tá kunpávyiihfuruk.
And then they went back into the living house.
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[4] aas tá kun'íishvunaa.
They ate a meal.
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[5] kári xás tá kun'ímpaha.
And they made up their minds.
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[6] ikmaháchraam tá kunpavyíhish.
They went back to the sweathouse.
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[7] kúkuum vúra imáan tóo kxáramha.
Again the next day it became dark.
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[8] kúkuum vúra vaa kári tá kunpavyíhivrath.
Again they went back to the sweathouse.
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[9] axmáy vúra yítha ukyívivrath.
Suddenly one fell in.
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[10] xás upiip, " yée naa, pihnêefich tuvôoruvrathaheen.
And he said, "Well, Coyote has come into the sweathouse.
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[11] pananupiykiríkir tu'av."
He ate our ladder."
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[12] chavúra kunpamfípivrath.
Finally they all gathered in the sweathouse.
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[13] xás kunipêer " chími árihishrih."
And they said, "Sing!"
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[14] kári xás kári ta'ítam upakurîihvaheen.
And so they sang.
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[15] kári xás " chémi, chúvaarap."
And (they said), "All right, let's go."
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[16] kári xás axmáy vúra upiip, " ishávaas, nipthivkéevish, ishávaas, nipthivkéevish."
And suddenly (Coyote) said, "Nephew, I'll go along, nephew, I'll go along."
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[17] xás kunipiip " chémi.
And they said, "All right."
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[18] kúna vúra xáyfaat ík iyúupha.
But you mustn't open your eyes.
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[19] vaa ík vúra panuvíitihaak.
That's the way it must be when we paddle.
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[20] vaa ík vúra i'asímchaaktiheesh."
You will have to keep your eyes closed like that."
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[21] ta'ítam kunpávyiihshipreeheen.
So they left.
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[22] chavúra yíiv tá kunpávyiihma.
Finally they went a long ways.
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[23] kári xás kári uxus, " tîi kányuuphi, apapíichyuupich."
And (Coyote) thought, "Let me open my eyes, just one little eye."
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[24] kári xás, xás uyúupha.
And then he opened his eyes.
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[25] xás kunívyiiship.
They had left.
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[26] xás yánava " ikmaháchraam" xás " panitháaniv.
And he saw, (he said) then, "I'm lying in the sweathouse!
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[27] ii! íf kâarim nikupheen, paniyuuphéen."
Oh, I really did bad, when I opened my eyes!"
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[28] kári xás púyava úumpan mah'íitnihach tá kunpávyiihship, kúkuum, paastaah.
And then they, the ducks, left again in the morning.
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[29] káru tá kunpávyiihma.
And they went back there.
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[30] káru ithivthaneen'ípan tá kunpávyiihma.
And they went to the end of the world.
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[31] púyava kúkuum vúra kúmateech pookxáramheesh, kúkuum vúra vaa kári kunpávyiihshipreevish.
Again in the evening when it was about to get dark, again they were about to leave.
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[32] tá iinâak áas tá kunpíshar.
By now they went inside to eat a meal.
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[33] kúmateech kunívyiihshipreevish.
Later on they were going to leave.
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[34] kun'íhukanveesh uknamxánahich.
They were going to flower-dance at 'uknamxanahich.
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[35] kári xás kúkuum vúra pihnêefich upiip, " nipthivkéevish, ishávaas."
And again Coyote said, "I'll go along, nephew."
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[36] xás kunipêer " chémi."
And they told him, "All right."
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[37] kári xás kúmateech kunpavyíhivrath.
And later on they went back in the sweathouse.
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[38] ta'ítam " yée chími árihish."
Then (they said), "Well, sing!"
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[39] ta'ítam kun'árihishriihvaheen pa'íhukar.
So they sang the flower-dance songs.
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[40] ta'ítam kunívyiihshipreeheen.
Then they left.
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[41] pihnêefich ta'ítam upthivkéeheen
Then Coyote went along.
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[42] kári xás kunipêer " xáyfaat ík iyúupha.
And they told him, "Don't open your eyes.
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[43] vúra ník panúvyiihmahaak, xasík vúra iyuuphéesh."
When we get there, then you can open your eyes."
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[44] "chémi, ník ishávaas, punáyuupheeshara."
"All right, nephew, I won't open my eyes."
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[45] ta'ítam kunpávyiihshipreeheen.
So they left.
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[46] chavúra axmáy vúra kunvítish.
Finally they suddenly paddled to shore.
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[47] xás kunipêer " tá nuvyíhuk."
And they told him, "We've arrived here."
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[48] "ee! ninithívthaaneen, ninithívthaaneen."
"Oh, my country, my country!"
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[49] ta'ítam úuth upiytúykaanvaheen.
And he kicked (dirt) out into the river.
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[50] panamníh'uuth úuth upiytúykaanva.
He kicked it out from Orleans.
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[51] katiphirá'uuth úuth upiytúykaanva.
He kicked it out from kátiphirak.
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[52] "ninithívthaaneen, ninithívthaaneen."
"My country, my country!"
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[53] tishaníh'uuth úuth upiytúykaanva.
He kicked it out from tishánii
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[54] tuyvúk'uuth úuth upiytúykaanva.
He kicked it out from túuyvuk.
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[55] "ninithívthaaneen, ninithívthaaneen, tá ni'ípak, ninithívthaaneen."
"My country, my country, I've come back, my country!"
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[56] kupánakanakana. chêech ík vúra ishyâat imshírihraavish.
kupánakanakana. Spring salmon, you must shine upriver quickly.
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[57] náyaavheesh ík.
You must hurry to me.
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[58] vúra uum tá neemchitátkoo.
The bones are sticking out through my skin.
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[59] káru chêech ík ataychúkinach i'uunúpraveesh.
And young brodiaea plant, you must come up quickly.
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[60] náyaavheesh ik.
You must hurry to me.
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