Nettie Ruben: "Coyote As Lawmaker" (1957)

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[1]	kunpiip	xâatik	ápap	yúruk	uvuunúpahitih	káru	ápap	káruk	uvuunôovutih
	they.say	it's.better	one.side	downriver	it.flows.from.the.mouth	also	one.side	upriver	it.flows.upstream

(The gods) said, "Let (the river) flow downstream on one side, and flow upstream on the other side.

[2]	xâatik	vaa	ukupítih
	it's.better	so	it.is.doing

Let it do that."

[3]	kári	xás	chémi
	then	then	all.right

Then (they said), "All right."

[4]	vaa	uum	vúra	payúruk	tá	kunvíitrup	tuthívruuhrup	yúruk
	so	3.SG	Intensive	downriver	PERF	they.paddle.downstream	they.floated.downstream	downriver

When they traveled downstream by boat, they floated downstream.

[5]	ithyáruk	kúna	úpviitrooveesh	uthívruuhrooveesh	káru	káruk	uvuunôovahiti	pa'íshaha
	across	in.addition	it.will.paddle.upstream	it.will.float.upriver	also	upriver	it.flows.upstream	the.water

They would travel back upstream on the other side, they would float upstream also, the water was flowing upstream.

[6]	kári	xás	pihnêefich	upiip	pûuhara
	then	then	coyote	he.says	no

Then Coyote said, "No.

[7]	xáyfaat	vaa	ukupítih
	don't!	so	it.is.doing

Let it not do that.

[8]	koovúra	yúruk	kámvuunupahitih
	all	downriver	let.it.flow.from.the.mouth

Let it all flow downstream.

[9]	vaa	uum	vúra	káan	ifmaarápiit	kamíktaatroovutih	káruk	uvítroovutih
	so	3.SG	Intensive	there	new.married.man	let.him.push.upstream	upriver	he.paddles.upstream

Let the new married man push his way upstream there, (when) he is traveling upstream."

[10]	kári	xás	kúna	kunpiip	asiktávaan	pamukun'átimnam	máruk	tá	kunsánaan
	then	then	in.addition	they.say	woman	their.burden.basket	uphill	PERF	they.carry.uphill

And next they said, "Women carry their burden-baskets uphill.

[11]	púyava	máruk	xás	áhup	sú'	tá	kunmáhyaan	túr	tá	kuníkyav
	you.see	uphill	then	wood	inside	PERF	they.put.in	packbasket.load	PERF	they.make

Uphill they put wood in them, they make a basket-load.

[12]	kári	xás	tá	kunpávyiihship	pa'asiktávaansa
	then	then	PERF	they.go.back.home	the.women

Then the women leave for home.

[13]	kári	xás	vaa	vúra	káan	tá	kun'íitshur	pamukúntur
	then	then	so	Intensive	there	PERF	they.leave	their.basket-load

And they leave their basket-loads there."

[14]	xás	kunpiip	vaa	vúra	kun'írunaatiheesh	patur
	then	they.say	so	Intensive	they.will.walk	the.basket-load

And then they said, "The basket-loads will walk (home by themselves)."

[15]	kári	xás	pihnêefich	upiip	xáyfaat	pûuhara
	then	then	coyote	he.says	don't!	no

Then Coyote said, "No, don't.

[16]	vúra	uum	yararápiit	vúra	kámtuuntih
	Intensive	3.SG	new.married.woman	Intensive	let.her.carry.it

Let the new married woman be carrying it."

[17]	kári	xás	vaa	ukupíti	payêem	tá	pu'áhootihara	patur
	then	then	so	it.is.doing	now	PERF	it.doesn't.walk	the.basket-load

So now she does that, the basket-load doesn't walk anymore.