Phoebe Maddux: Downslope and Upslope Tobacco (1932)

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[1]	sahihêeraha	káru	mahihêeraha
	downslope.tobacco	also	upslope.tobacco

"Downslope and Upslope Tobacco"

(title)

[2]	pu'ikpíhanhara	pasahihêeraha	xáat	vaa	ár	uhêer
	it.is.not.strong	the.downslope.tobacco	may	that	person	he.smokes.it

That river tobacco is not strong, if a person smokes it.

[3]	astíip	vúr	u'íifti	yúxnaam
	shore	Intensive	it.is.growing	sand

It grows by the river in the sand.

[4]	vúra	pu'uhthaamhítihap
	Intensive	they.do.not.plant.it

They do not sow it.

[5]	vúra	yáanchiip	kúkuum	vúra	káan	tupifshîiprin
	Intensive	next.year	again	Intensive	there	it.has.grown.back.up

Every year it grows up voluntarily.

[6]	áraar	uum	vúra	pu'ihêeratihara	pasahihêeraha
	human	3.SG	Intensive	they.do.not.smoke.it	the.downslope.tobacco

The Indians never smoke it, that river tobacco.

[7]	kúna	vúra	patapasihêeraha	uum	kúnish	axváhahar	tíikyan	ár	uxváhahiti	patu'áffishahaak	patapasihêeraha
	in.addition	Intensive	the.real.tobacco	3.SG	sort.of	having.been.made.sticky	in.the.hand	person	it.makes.it.sticky	when.one.touches.it	the.real.tobacco

But the real tobacco is pithy, it makes a person's hands sticky when one touches it, the real tobacco does.

[8]	tírihsha	pamupírish	ikpíhan	imxathakkêem
	wide.ones	its.leaves	strong	bad-smelling

It has widish leaves, it is strong, it stinks.

(typo corrected from "wildish" to "widish")