Phoebe Maddux: "Coyote Attends a Flower Dance at Orleans" (1932)

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[1]	uknîi
	once.upon.a.time

Uknîi.

[2]	xás	pihnêefich	panámniik	u'íhukaranik	uum	masuh'árahanik	pihnêefich
	then	coyote	Orleans	he.went.to.a.flower.dance	3.SG	was.a.Salmon.River.person	coyote

Then Coyote went to attend a flower dance at Orleans, he was a Salmon River person, Coyote was.

[3]	xás	váa	káan	kâarim	ukupavêenahanik
	then	that	there	bad	he.did

Then he did not do right there.

[4]	mâava	yúruk	ukvíriprupanik
	look!	downriver	he.ran.off.downriver

Then he ran down river.

[5]	xás	kun'áharamanik
	then	he.followed

Then they followed him.

[6]	chavúra	xôoxhirak	ukvíripmanik
	finally	Martin's.Ferry	he.ran

Then he ran as far as Martin's Ferry.

[7]	yánava	káan	ikmaháchraam	u'íikra
	visible	there	sweathouse	it.is.standing

Behold he saw a sweathouse standing there.

[8]	ta'ítam	vaa	káan	su'	u'árihivrathaheen
	so	that	there	inside	he.jumped.in.the.sweathouse

Then he jumped inside of it there.

[9]	uxús	chími	kán'aasish	ôok	peekmaháchraam
	he.think	soon	I'm.going.to.lie.down	here	the.sweathouse

He thought: "Let me lie down here, in the sweathouse."

[10]	vúra	vaa	mu'ánavhanik	pa'ámtaap
	Intensive	that	was.his.medicine	the.ashes

Now ashes were his medicine.

[11]	ta'ítam	upipatvathvâanaheen	pa'ámtaap
	so	he.bathed.himself	the.ashes

So he rubbed ashes all over himself.

[12]	xás	upíip	pihnîich	kúnish	kaníyruuhrivi
	then	he.say	old.man	sort.of	I.lie.down

Then he said: "Let me lie down like an old man."

[13]	îifiti	tá	xánahishich	chími	axmay	urikirikiha
	sure.enough	PERF	little.while	soon	suddenly	sound.of.their.footsteps

A while afterwards all at once there was a sound of people walking.

[14]	hínupa	tá	kuníhmaruk
	surprise	PERF	they.are.running

They were the ones that were following him (they were already on the roof).

[15]	chími	axmay	ára	utnûupni
	soon	suddenly	person	he.is.looking.through

Then all at once some one looked in.

[16]	îifiti	kunxusêer	pihnîichich
	sure.enough	they.think.about	old.man

Then they thought it was an old man.

[17]	xás	vúra	púxay	thitívara
	then	Intensive	not.yet	did.not.hear

Then he made believe he could not understand.

[18]	kíri	kanaxusêer	puthitíimtihara
	I.wish	they.think.about.me	he.does.not.hear

"I wish they would think about me that I can not understand."

(Harrington's translation of this sentence is "Would that they think he can not understand." It has been changed here to better reflect the sense.)

[19]	víri	uum	vúra	u'íhivrik	yuhih	mûuk	iiv	umahavriktih
	so	3.SG	Intensive	he.answers	Yurok.language	with.(by.means.of)	meaning.unknown	he.is.unable.to.endure.(it)

He answered in Yurok, he was groaning.

(Harrington's translation of this sentence is "He answered as if he was sick, groaningly." It has been changed here to better reflect the Karuk.)

[20]	kári	xas	kunpiip	chími	nu'írunaa	pay	uum	vúra	pihnîichich
	then	then	they.say	soon	we.go	this	3.SG	Intensive	old.man

Then they said: "Let's travel; it is some old man."

[21]	kupánakanakana
	the.end

Kupánakanakana.

[22]	pihnêefich	ukúphaanik	amtaap	upâatvanik
	coyote	he.did	dust	he.bathed

Coyote did that, he bathed with ashes.