Fritz Hansen: "Mourning Dove Young Man Gambles away his Doodle Bug Grandmother's Dress" (1930)

Note: This text has been retranscribed in current spelling.

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[1]	uknîi
	once.upon.a.time

uknîi.

[2]	ataháriva	kunáraarahitihanik
	always	they.were.living.long.ago

They were living (there).

[3]	uumkun	váa	kári	kari	áraarashanik
	they	so	then	then	people.long.ago

They were still people.

[4]	pimnanihtanákaanich	uum	afíshnihanichhanik
	mourning.dove	3.SG	young.man.long.ago

Mourning dove was a young man.

[5]	xas	uum	vúra	váa	kich	ukupítihanik	póothtiitihanik
	then	3.SG	Intensive	so	only	he.was.doing.long.ago	that.he.was.gambling

And all that he used to do was to gamble.

[6]	chavúra	pâanpay	vúra	tá	kunchífich
	finally	after.while	Intensive	PERF	they.beat.him

And later on all at once they beat him.

[7]	vúra	koovúra	pamú'uup	tá	kunchífichfip	vúra
	Intensive	all	his.possession	PERF	they.beat.him.completely	Intensive

They won from him all that he had.

[8]	púfaat	vúra	tá	pamú'uup
	nothing	just	PERF	his.possession

He didn't have anything.

[9]	tá	kunchífich
	PERF	they.beat.him

They beat him.

[10]	chavúra	pâanpay	iinâak	upvôonfuruk
	finally	after.while	indoors	he.came.back.in

Then a little later on he came into the living house (from the sweathouse).

[11]	iinâak	pamúkiit	úkrii
	indoors	his.grandmother	she.lives

His grandmother was home.

[12]	xas	pamúkîit	upeer	tâak	pamiyáfus	níxraam
	then	his.grandmother	he.tells.her	give.me!	your.dress	I.bet.it

And he told his grandmother: “Give me your dress. Let me bet it.”

[13]	ta'ítam	u'êeheen	pamuyáfus
	so	she.gaveit.to..him	her.dress

Then she gave him her dress.

(Harrington's note: She took off her dress and gave it to him, that is why the Doodle Bug is so poor now, wears no dress to cover up her meat.)

[14]	váa	ta	ifuchtîimich	váa	tápaan	uxraam	pamúkiit	muyáfus
	that	PERF	last.one	that	must(?)	he.bet.it	his.grandmother	her.dress

Then at last he even bet his grandmother's dress.

[15]	xás	vaa	kúna	kunpáxeep
	then	that	in.addition	they.won.it.from.him

And they won it from him.

[16]	xás	úxrar
	then	he.cried

Then he cried.

[17]	táay	nik	tá	kunchífich	vúra	pu'ixraratihara	váa	xás	u'ívur	pamúkiit	muyáfus
	much	a.little	PERF	they.won	Intensive	he.didn't.cry	that	then	he.cried.for	his.grandmother	her.dress

They had won lots of things from him but he never cried, all he cried for was his grandmother's dress.

[18]	víri	váa	vúra	payváhiim	kári	u'ívunti	pakunpáxeepanik	pamúkiit	muyáfus
	so	so	Intensive	nowadays	then	he.is.crying	they.won.it.from.him	his.grandmother	her.dress

He is crying for it now yet, because they won it from him, grandmother's dress.

[19]	xás	pamúkiit	yúxnaam	u'íripkurihanik	kóova	uxvíiphaanik
	then	his.grandmother	sand	she.dug.a.hole	so	she.was.angry.long.ago

And his grandmother, she dug into the sand, she got so mad.

[20]

payváhiim

váa

káan

vúra

su'

úkrii

vákay

payváhiim

vakay'ámtaapkunish

yúxnaam

su'

úkrii

nowadays

so

there

Intensive

inside

she.lives

worm

nowadays

worm

sand

inside

she.lives

Now she lives in there, she's a bug now, a gray bug, lives in the sand.

[21]	kóova	uthvuyxâahanik	pamuyáfus
	so	she.felt.sad.long.ago	her.dress

She felt so sad about her dress.

[22]	xás	yúxnaam	u'íripkurihanik
	then	sand	she.dug.a.hole.long.ago

She dug a hole in the sand.

[23]	xás	vaa	káan	upishunvávaananik
	then	that	there	she.buried.herself.long.ago

She buried herself there.

[24]	kupánakanakana
	the.end

Kupánakanakana.

[25]	chéemyaach	ík	vúra	ishyâat	imshîinaavish
	quickly	must	Intensive	king.salmon	you.shine.this.way.upriver

Shine early, Spring Salmon, hither up river.