Maggie Charley: "Indian Food" (1957)

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[1]	píshiich pakun'áraarahiti pa'asiktávaansas ápkaas kun'íshumtih.
	As they lived at first, the women scraped iris leaves.

[2]	xás pa'ávansa vaa kunparíshriihva pa'ápkaas.
	And the men twined the iris leaves into string.

[3]	xás urípi kunvik.
	And they wove nets.

[4]	xás ishkêeshak imvír kuníkyav.
	And they made fisheries in the river.

[5]	xás vaa káan kuníkriihva, táay kuníykar pa'áama.
	And they fished there, they caught a lot of fish.

[6]	xás pa'asiktávaansas kuníhviithtih.
	And the women cleaned (the fish).

[7]	xás pimnaníhraam vaa káan kuníkyav.
	And they made a summer-camp there.

[8]	xás vaa káan kunsuváxra pa'áama.
	And they dried the salmon there.

[9]	pa'asiktávaansas uum kun'ífikvunaa xuntápan.
	The women gathered acorns.

[10]	pa'áama kun'áamti káru vúra pa'éekoons.
	They ate the salmon and the acorns.

[11]	káakum pa'éekoons táay vúra tá kun'ífik, xás itahara'átimnam kóo tóo píishha.
	Some people gathered a lot of acorns, and put as many as ten baskets to soak.

[12]	kuyrakhárinay xás amáyav pápiish.
	In three years, then the soaked acorns were good-tasting.

[13]	pufích'aan tóo kyav.
	They made twine for deer-traps.

[14]	vaa púufich kunkupeeykárahiti pa'áraar, kuntátapvutih.
	The Indians killed deer that way, they trapped them.

[15]	axaksúpaa tupmúsan pamutátapva.
	Every two days they would go look at their traps.

[16]	vaa kunkupeeykárahiti papúufich.
	They killed the deer that way.

[17]	xás koovúra vaa kun'áamtih, papúufich káru pa'áama káru pa'éekoons káru pápiish.
	And they ate all that, the deer and the salmon and the acorns and the soaked acorns.

[18]	akráa káru kun'áamtih.
	They ate eels too.

[19]	paxúrish tóo krav, páykuuk ása múuk.
	They ground the shelled acorns with that stone over there (pointing to a pestle).

[20]	xás tuthántap paxúrish.
	And they sifted the shelled acorns.

[21]	xás sáruk tutákir astiip.
	And they leached them, downhill on the river bank.

[22]	xás áhkaam tóo kyav.
	And they made a big fire.

[23]	pa'ás tóo párish.
	They heated stones (for cooking).

[24]	xás asípkaam tumáhyaan pa'éekoons.
	And they put the acorns in a big soup-basket.

[25]	tu'arámpuk.
	They cooked acorn soup.

[26]	xás kun'áamtih.
	Then they ate it.