Nettie Ruben: "The Story of Bear" (1957)

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[1]	káan	yáan'iiftihansa	kun'áraarahiti	tipahêeras
	there	young.men	they.were.living	brothers

Young men were living there, brothers.

[2]	xás	kári	pa'asiktávaan	kunxus	tîi	vaa	káan	nusôomvan
	then	then	the.women	they.thought	let...	so	there	we.go.to.offer.in.marriage

And the women thought, "Let's go offer ourselves in marriage there!"

[3]	kári	xás	káan	tá	kun'uum
	then	then	there	PERF	they.arrive

So they arrived there.

[4]	kári	xás	vírusur	uxus	tîi	naa	káru
	then	then	bear	she.thought	let...	1sg.	also

And Bear thought, "Let me (go) too!"

[5]	xás	pakunikyáavunaati	kun'ífikvunaatih
	then	when.they.gathered	they.were.picking.up

And when the women gathered (food), they picked up (acorns).

[6]	púyava	vírusur	uum	ikxúrar	xás	tuvôonupuk
	you.see	bear	3.SG	evening	then	she.crawled.out

Then Bear went out in the evening.

[7]	púyava	yáan	ník	vúra	hôoyva	usúpaahitiheesh
	you.see	recently	a.little	Intensive	somewhere	it.was.going.to.become.day

Then it was just about to be dawn someplace.

[8]	víri	vaa	ukupitih	tusaríshriihva	pakóo	kuma'ávaha
	so	that	she.was.doing	she.was.putting.down	all	kinds.of.food

She was doing this, she was bringing in all kinds of food.

[9]	hôoyva	má'	poomkaanvúrayvutih
	somewhere	uphill	she.was.gathering.from.bushes.here.and.there

She was gathering food (from bushes, such as berries) somewhere in the mountains.

[10]	púyava	máh'iit	tu'ípak
	you.see	morning	she.came.back

So she got back in the morning.

[11]	púyava	uum	pa'asiktávaansa	yáas	kunívyiihshiprimtih	máh'iit
	you.see	3.SG	the.women	then	they.began.to.go	morning

Then the women started out, in the morning.

[12]	yáas	tá	kun'ífikvanaa	máh'iit
	then	PERF	they.gathered.acorns	morning

Then they gathered acorns in the morning.

[13]	vírusur	uum	tá	íp	u'ípakat
	bear	3.SG	PERF	PAST	she.returned

Bear had already come back home.

[14]	uum	ithasúpaa	vúra	úkrii
	3.SG	all.day	Intensive	she.sat

She just sat all day long.

[15]	púyava	kúkuum	vúra	kúmateech	tá	kunpavyíhuk	pa'asiktávaansa
	you.see	again	Intensive	later.in.day	PERF	they.came.back	the.women

Again later in the day the women came back.

[16]

púyava

uum

kúmateech

patóo

kxuraraha

púyava

kári

vírusur

tuvâaram

tóo

mkaanvar

ikxáram

you.see

3.SG

later.in.day

when.it

become.evening

you.see

then

bear

she.went.away

she

went.to.gather.from.plants

night

Then later, when it was evening, Bear went off, she went to gather food in the evening.

[17]	xás	kunipíti	pa'asiktávaansa	púya	hûut	kumá'ii	peekxáram	xás	uvaaramôotih
	then	they.said	the.women	and.so	how	because.of	in.the.evening	then	she.always.goes.away

And the women said, "Say, why does she always go off in the evening?"

[18]

xás

púyava

kumamáh'iit

xás

kúkuum

tu'ípak

vúra

uum

taay

poo'átivutih

póomkaanvuti

pakóo

kuma'ávaha

then

you.see

some.morning

then

again

she.came.back

Intensive

3.SG

much

that.she.was.carrying.in.her.burden.basket

since.she.was.gathering.from.plants

all

kinds.of.food

And one morning she came back again, she was carrying a lot in her burden basket, since she had gathered all kinds of food.

[19]	xás	kunpiip	púya	hûut	kúth	peekxáram	uvaaramôotih
	then	they.said	and.so	how	because.of	in.the.evening	she.always.goes.away

And (the women) said, "Say, why does she always go off in the evening?"

[20]	xás	kári	yítha	upiip	yakún	húm	vaa	áraar	uum	vaa	vírusur
	then	then	one	she.said	you.see	or	that	human	3.SG	that	bear

Then one said, "You see, that's no person, that's a bear!"

[21]	vaa	kumá'ii	pavaa	ukupítih	ikxáram	xás	póomkaanvutih
	that	because.of	that	she.was.doing	night	then	that.she.was.gathering.from.plants

That's why she did that, she gathered food in the evening.

[22]	púyava	hínu páy	uum	vírusur	víri	vaa	kumá'ii	pátaay	úmkaanvutih
	you.see	surprise	3.SG	bear	so	that	because.of	so.much	that.she.was.gathering.from.plants

So there she was a bear, that's why she gathered (so) much.