Mrs. Bennett: "Screech Owl and Coyote" (1903)

Note: The first paragraph of this story is repeated three or four times, because the events it describes are repeated in the story.

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[1]	ipasnáhvaanich	káan	úkrii
	owl.sp.	there	he.stopped

Pygmy Owl lived there.

[2]	kúkuum	imáan	tu'ákunvar
	again	tomorrow	he.went.hunting.again

Again in the morning [the next day] he went hunting.

[3]	kári	xás	púufich	tóo	ykar
	then	then	deer	he	beat

Then he killed a deer.

[4]	xás	sáruk	tóo	thyúrufak	ástiip
	then	downhill	he	dragged.downhill	shore

Then he dragged it downhill to the riverbank.

[5]	xás	muvêeshurak	tupikniivtákishnihach
	then	its.horns	he.just.sat.back.down.on.top.of

Then he just sat back down on top of its horns.

[6]	xás	papúufich	tóo	kpúuhvarak
	then	the.deer	it	swim.down.from.upriver

Then he swam the deer downriver.

[7]	xás	tóo	thyúruripaa
	then	he	pull.out

Then he dragged it ashore.

[8]	xás	tóo	sfir
	then	he	skin

Then he skinned it.

[9]	kári	xás	káan	áraar	tóo	kmárihivrik
	then	then	there	human	he	meet

Then he met a man coming there.

[10]	áraar	pamu'áav	ápap	u'ávas-hunihva
	human	his.face	one.side	it.was.a.spring.down

One side of the man's face was a spring (flowing) down.

[11]	xás	ápap	upírishhunihva
	then	one.side	it.was.plants.down

One side was plants (hanging) down.

[12]	kári	xás	papúufich	tu'êetheep
	then	then	the.deer	he.took.away.from.him

Then he (the man) took the deer away from him.

[13]	xás	pa'únuhich	kich	tupáthih
	then	the.kidney	only	he.threw.to.him

Then he threw only the kidney to him.

[14]	xás	tóo	pvâaram
	then	he	go.back

Then he (Pygmy Owl) went home.

[15]	xás	tóo	mnish	pa'únuhich
	then	he	cook	the.kidney

Then he cooked the kidney.

[16]	xás	tu'áv
	then	he.ate.it

Then he ate it.

[17]	kúkuum	imáan	tupákunvar
	again	tomorrow	he.went.hunting.again

The next day, he went hunting again. [The same episode is repeated several times.]

[18]	kári	xás	káan	u'úum
	then	then	there	he.arrived

Then he (Coyote) arrived there.

[19]	ee	ishávaas	ôok	tá	ni'áhoo
	oh!	child.of.deceased.sibling	here	PERF	I.have.come

"Ee, nephew, I have come.

[20]	nuykáreesh	pa'îin	púufich	i'êethiipvutihat
	we.will.kill.him	because.he	deer	he.has.been.taking.it.from.you

We will kill the one who has been taking the deer from you."

[21]	kári	xás	pihnêefich	akôor	úkyav	imshaxvuh'ákoor
	then	then	coyote	axe	he.made	gum.axe

Then Coyote made an axe, a (pine) gum axe.

[22]	kári	xás	chími	i'ákunvar
	then	then	soon	you.go.hunt

Then (Coyote said), "Go hunting!"

[23]	kári	xás	uykár	papúufich
	then	then	he.killed	the.deer

Then he (Pygmy Owl) killed a deer.

[24]	xás	ukpúuhvarak	kúkuum
	then	he.swam.down.from.upriver	again

Then he swam it down from upriver again.

[25]	kári	xás	uthyúruripaa
	then	then	he.pulled.it.toward.land

Then he pulled it toward land.

[26]	xás	kuníshfir
	then	they.skinned.it

Then they skinned it.

[27]	xás	pihnêefich	u'áamva	paathkúrit
	then	coyote	he.ate	the.fat

Then Coyote ate the fat.

[28]	kári	xás	kúkuum	pa'áraar	káan	u'úum
	then	then	again	the.man	there	he.arrived

Then the man came there again.

[29]	xás	kúkuum	papúufich	kinpáthih	pa'únuhich
	then	again	the.deer	he.threw.to.them	the.kidney

Then again he threw the deer's kidney to them.

[30]	xás	upíip	kaneeyfúutsip
	then	he.said	push.me.up

Then he said, "Load me up!"

[31]	kári	xás	pihnêefich	axvâak	u'áaka	pa'akôora	mûuk
	then	then	coyote	on.the.head	he.chopped.him	the.axe	with.(by.means.of)

Then Coyote struck him on the head with the axe.

[32]	xás	kuníykar
	then	they.killed.him

Then they killed him.

[33]	xás	pihnêefich	upíip	púya	pay	uum	váah
	then	coyote	he.said	and.so	this	3.SG	so

Then Coyote said, "So this is all right!"

[34]	xás	kunimníshkirihva
	then	they.cooked.meat

Then they cooked it.

[35]	kupánakanakana
	the.end

Kupánakanakana.

[36]	ipasnáhvaanich	ukúphaanik
	owl.sp.	he.did.it

Pygmy Owl did it.