Chester Pepper: "Duck Hawk and His Wife" (1957)

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[1]	vaa	ukúphaanik	á 'iknêechhan
	so	he.did.it	falcon

Duck Hawk did this.

[2]	ôok	pamuhrôoha	úkrii
	here	his.wife	she.lives

His wife lived here.

[3]	xás	tíshraam	ufmaanahîichva
	then	valley	he.has.a.mistress

And he had a mistress in Scott Valley.

[4]	tu'ípak
	he.came.back

He came back (from Scott Valley).

[5]	tishravará'iivreer	yanéekva	pamu'îin	uthivnúrutih
	Etna.Mountain	visible	his.falls	it.is.thundering

On Etna Mountain he heard his falls thundering (at Katimin).

[6]	kúkuum	tóo	pvâaram
	again	he.has	go.back

He was going home again.

[7]	yítha	mú'arama	úkrii	káru	muhrôoha
	one	his.child	he.lives	also	his.wife

His one child and his wife lived there.

[8]	ifuchtîimich	poopitvâavnukanik	yánava	pura fátaak
	last.time	that.he.looked.over.his.shoulder	visible	nowhere

The last time he looked over, (the falls) were nowhere to be seen.

[9]	puthivnúrutihara	pamu'íin
	it.is.not.thundering	his.falls

His falls weren't thundering.

[10]	xás	uxútih	tá	natayvárarimka	panani'íin
	then	he.is.thinking	PERF	she.spoils.me	my.falls

And he thought, "She's spoiled my falls."

[11]	kári	xás	upvâaram
	then	then	he.goes.back

So he went home.

[12]	ôok	u'ipak
	here	he.came.back

He returned here.

[13]	xás	aseeshtákak	poopitvâavnuk	mâam	páykuuk	umah	tá	kunpífukraa	mú'arama	xákaan
	then	placename	when.he.looks.over.his.shoulder	uphill	over.there	he.sees	PERF	they.were.climbing.uphill	his.child	both

And when he looked over at aseeshtákak, he saw here right there uphill, she and her child were climbing uphill.

[14]	xás	vaa	vúra	káan	upathakhíish
	then	so	Intensive	there	he.knelt.down.(on.one.knee)

So he knelt down there.

[15]	xás	ta'ítam	ukúniihka	pamuhrôoha
	then	so	he.shot.her	his.wife

And he shot his wife.

[16]	púyava	káan	utákniihkurih
	you.see	there	she.rolls.into.a.hollow

She rolled in (to a hollow) there.

[17]	utákniihvarayva
	she.rolls.around

She rolled around.

[18]	víriva	kumá'ii	kunípeenti	xúux	mukrivruhvánamich
	so	because.of	they.are.saying	placename	her.little.rolling-place

For that reason they call it "xuux's little rolling-place."

(Bright: "Duck Hawk's wife is here called xuux; this name designates an extinct and possibly only legendary animal, identified by some informants with the grizzly bear and by others with the African lion.")