Julia Starritt: "The Sweating Doctor" (1957)

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[1]	pa'aneekyávaan uum pírish pa'óohruuvtih káru hâari pirish'éepuum.
	The sweating doctor used plants and sometimes plant roots.

[2]	púyava xás u'uhyanakôoti papírish.
	And he talked to the plants.

[3]	púyava xás ásipak tumáhyaan.
	Then he put them in a bowl-basket.

[4]	xás íshaha tóo yvaayramnih.
	And he poured in water.

[5]	xás kári aséemfir tutururáamnihva.
	Then he put in hot stones.

[6]	púyava xás vaa tóo páramva.
	And he boiled them.

[7]	xás vaa payíkihar musúrukam tóo thríish.
	Then he set them down underneath the sick person.

[8]	xás váas tá kuniyxôorariv.
	And they covered (the patient) with a blanket.

[9]	púyava patukôohaak púyava kári pa'ánav îim tá kunpiyvêesh.
	When he was finished, they poured the medicine on the ground, outdoors.

[10]	káru hâari tu'ísh káakum pa'ánav.
	And sometimes (the patient) drank some of the medicine.

[11]	púyava páy uum papirish'ánav kunkupeekyâahitih.
	That’s how they made plant medicine.

[12]	xás pa'aneekyávaan vúra kúnish ikxaréeyav.
	And the doctor was kind of (like) an ikxaréeyav.