Chester Pepper: "Duck Hawk and His Wife" (1957)

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[1]	vaa ukúphaanik á 'iknêechhan.
	Duck Hawk did this.

[2]	ôok pamuhrôoha úkrii.
	His wife lived here.

[3]	xás tíshraam ufmaanahîichva.
	And he had a mistress in Scott Valley.

[4]	tu'ípak.
	He came back (from Scott Valley).

[5]	tishravará'iivreer yanéekva pamu'îin uthivnúrutih.
	On Etna Mountain he heard his falls thundering (at Katimin).

[6]	kúkuum tóo pvâaram.
	He was going home again.

[7]	yítha mú'arama úkrii káru muhrôoha.
	His one child and his wife lived there.

[8]	ifuchtîimich poopitvâavnukanik yánava pura fátaak.
	The last time he looked over, (the falls) were nowhere to be seen.

[9]	puthivnúrutihara pamu'íin.
	His falls weren't thundering.

[10]	xás uxútih, " tá natayvárarimka panani'íin."
	And he thought, "She's spoiled my falls."

[11]	kári xás upvâaram.
	So he went home.

[12]	ôok u'ipak.
	He returned here.

[13]	xás aseeshtákak poopitvâavnuk mâam páykuuk umah, tá kunpífukraa mú'arama xákaan.
	And when he looked over at aseeshtákak, he saw here right there uphill, she and her child were climbing uphill.

[14]	xás vaa vúra káan upathakhíish.
	So he knelt down there.

[15]	xás ta'ítam ukúniihka pamuhrôoha.
	And he shot his wife.

[16]	púyava káan utákniihkurih.
	She rolled in (to a hollow) there.

[17]	utákniihvarayva.
	She rolled around.

[18]	víriva kumá'ii kunípeenti " xúux mukrivruhvánamich."
	For that reason they call it "xuux's little rolling-place."

(Bright: "Duck Hawk's wife is here called xuux; this name designates an extinct and possibly only legendary animal, identified by some informants with the grizzly bear and by others with the African lion.")