Abner's mother: "Crow Woman and her Neglectful Husband" (1930)

Note: This text has been retranscribed in current spelling.

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[1]	uknîi
	once.upon.a.time

uknîi.

[2]	ataháriva	kun'áraarahitihanik
	always	they.were.living.long.ago

They were living [there].

[3]	chavúra	pâanpay	pamu'ávan	húukava	u'uum
	finally	after.while	her.husband	to.somewhere	he.goes

Then later on her [Crow Woman's] husband went off somewhere.

[4]	xás	vúra	vaa	ukrii	ukrûuntih
	then	Intensive	so	she.stays	she.waits.for.him

She was staying waiting for him.

[5]	pu'áapúnmutihara	hôoy	vaa	poovȃaramootih
	she.does.not.know	where	so	that.he.keeps.going

She did not know where he kept going all the time.

[6]	xas	chími	axmáy	u'ípak
	then	soon	suddenly	he.comes.back

Then after a while he came back.

[7]	xas	uum	vúra	hitíhaan	kumasúpaa	poopȋiriihiti	pamu'ávan	paxuun
	then	3.SG	Intensive	always	its.day	that.she.was.saving.it.for.him	her.husband	the.acorn.soup

She was saving acorn soup all the time every day for her man.

(The verb root pîiriihi, which Harrington translates as "to save food for someone", is not to our knowledge attested elsewhere. )

[8]	chími	axmáy	u'ípak
	soon	suddenly	he.comes.back

Then he came back.

[9]	kári	xas	u'êe	paxuun
	then	then	she.gives.it.to.him	the.acorn.soup

And she gave him the acorn soup.

[10]	yéehe	amakeem'íshara
	interjection	extremely.bad.tasting

“Oh, it does not taste good,” (he said).

[11]	xâat
	rotten

It is rotten.

[12]	uxraháthkaay
	sour

It is sour."

[13]	kári	xas	upiip	“ûunuhich	tu'íithra	paxuun
	then	then	she.says	long.time	it.is.filled	the.acorn.soup

Then (the woman) said: “For a long time it was in there [in a basket cup], the acorn soup.

[14]	ayu'âach	uxaat.”
	it.was.because	it.is.rotten

Of course it is rotten.”

[15]	xas	upakurihva
	then	she.sings

Then she sang:

[16]	ayu'âach	uxaat	ûunuhich	tu'íithra
	it.was.because	it.is.rotten	long.time	it.is.filled

“Of course it is rotten, it has been in there a long time.”

[17]	hínupa	uum	u'iimníhvutih
	surprise	3.SG	he.was.having.a.love.affair

[Then the woman said] “He was in love [was staying away with a girl].”

[18]	kupánakanakana
	the.end

kupánakanakana.

[19]	ánaach	ukúphaanik
	crow	he.did.that.long.ago

Crow did that.

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

Shine early, Spring Salmon, hither up river.