Mamie Offield: "The Flood" (1957)

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[1]	peethívthaaneen	aas	upiithránik
	the.earth	water	it.collected

Water collected on the earth.

[2]	kári	xás	asiktâan	kinipéer	chími	shipnúkaam	kiikvîiki
	then	then	woman	they.were.told	soon	big.storage.basket	you.weave

And the women were told, "Weave a big storage basket."

[3]	kári	xás	kunvik
	then	then	they.wove

So they wove.

[4]	xás	vúra	xára	kunvikúur
	then	Intensive	long.time	they.wove

And they wove for a long time.

[5]	vúra	táayva	kunvíkroon	icháaniich
	Intensive	several	they.wove.around	at.one.time

They wove several strands at one time.

[6]	kári	xás	pakunípthith	kári	xás	axváha	kuniyvúruk
	then	then	they.finished.weaving	then	then	pitch	they.rubbed.it

And when they finished weaving, they smeared it with pitch.

[7]	púyava	pá'aas	upiithránik
	you.see	the.water	it.collected

So the water collected.

[8]	vaa	káan	sú'	kunívyiihramnihanik	vaa	uthivrúhuthunanik
	so	tie.up.with	inside	they.got.into.it	so	they.floated.around

(The people) got inside (the basket) there, they floated around that way.

[9]	vaa	kumá'ii	payêem	áraar	kun'áraarahitih
	so	because.of	now	human	they.are.living

That's why people are living now.

[10]

víri

vaa

kinípeeranik

hûutva

kóo

ithívthaaneen

uthaanêehaak

xáyfaat

ik

kúkuum

vúra

vaa

kukupeepvíkaha

so

so

they.told.them

somehow

as.much.as

land

it.exists

don't!

must

again

Intensive

so

you.must.not.weave.that.way

(But) they were told, "However long the earth exists, you musn't weave that way (several strands at a time) again."

[11]	yukun	ithivthaaneentaaníha
	you.see	world.coming.to.an.end

You see, (it will be) the end of the world.