Nettie Ruben: "The Pool in Big Rock" (1957)

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[1]	chîinach	asiktávaan	ukrêenik
	placename	woman	she.lived

A woman once lived at chîinach (upriver opposite Orleans).

[2]	xás	vúra	uum	vikakêemich
	then	Intensive	3.SG	bad.weaver

And she was a poor weaver.

[3]	vúra	pu'ikvarishtihap
	Intensive	they.didn't.buy.from.her

People didn't buy (baskets) from her.

[4]	xás	uxús	tîi	máruk	chinach'ásak	kánpaathkirihi	paninisárum
	then	she.thought	let...	uphill	at.Big.Rock	let.me.throw.into.water	my.pine-roots

And she thought, "Let me throw my pine-roots in the water, uphill at Big Rock.

[5]	kíri	naa	káru	íshkiit	na'árihish
	I.wish	1sg.	also	lucky	I.become

Let me become lucky too!"

[6]	xás	upaathkúrihar
	then	she.went.to.throw.into.water

So she went to throw them in.

[7]	káan	xás	mah'íitnihach	upapivankôoti	pamusárum	ishkêeshak	hôoy	kích	tóo	pthívruuhruprav
	there	then	early.morning	she.went.to.look.for	her.pine-roots	at.the.river	where	only	they.had	floated.out

Then she went early in the morning to look for her pine-roots there in the river, (she wondered) where they had floated out.

[8]	víri	îifuti	uthívruuhtih
	so	sure.enough	they.are.floating

Sure enough, they were floating (there).

[9]	xás	uptâatripaa
	then	she.hooked.them.out.of.the.water

So she pulled them out.

[10]	púyava	pootáyiithharati	yíiv	vúra	tá	kun'aramsípriin	kúnikvárishtih	xáat	káru	vikakêemich
	you.see	when.she.lashed.the.base.of.a.basket	far	Intensive	PERF	they.came.from	they.buy.from.her	may	also	bad.weaver

So when she lashed the base of a basket with them, people came from far away, they bought from her, (though) she might be a poor weaver.

[11]	púyava	pasárum	ánav	tu'árihish
	you.see	the.pine-roots	medicine	they.became

The pine-roots had become medicine.

[12]	káru	vaa	káan	ávansa	upakxuyvîichvuti	pakáan	tu'iipkúrih
	also	so	there	man	he.is.seeking.good.luck	when.there	he.dove

And a man is looking for good luck there when he dives in there.

[13]	vúra	hâari	tóosíinvar	hâari	tá	pupitnúprihvara
	Intensive	sometime	he.drowns	sometime	PERF	he.can't.be.seen.through.it

Sometimes he drowns, sometimes he doesn’t come back up.

[14]	ithahárinay	xás	tóo	pthívruuhruprihva
	after.a.whole.year	then	he.did	float.back.up

Then in a year he comes back up.

[15]	peechkáanviichvaanhanik	pa'ávansa
	once.there.was.a.gambler	the.man

Once a man was a gambler.

[16]	xás	kunchífich
	then	they.beat.him

And they beat him.

[17]	vúra	tá	pura fâat	thiinátihara	vúra	tá	kunchifíchfip
	Intensive	PERF	nothing	he.did.not.have	Intensive	PERF	they.beat.him.completely

He didn’t have anything, they beat him completely.

[18]	xás	pooxús	máruk	kanvâarami
	then	he.thought	uphill	let.me.go

And he thought, “Let me go uphill!”

[19]	tu'iipkúrihar	xáat	káru	ni'iv
	he.went.to.dive	may	also	I.die

He went to dive in, (thinking), "I may even die."

[20]	tá	kunkoohímachva
	PERF	they.take.pity.on.him

(The spirits) took pity on him.

[21]	ithahárinay	tusínmoo
	all.year	he.was.gone

He was gone for a year.

[22]	pa'ára	papivankôotihan	kéevniikich
	the.person	the.one.going.to.look.for.him	old.woman.(dimin.)

The person who was going to look for him was an old woman.

[23]	uum	pa'áraar	pápimtihan	ithahárinay	vúra	pumaahtíhap
	3.SG	the.person	the.one.looking.for.him	a.whole.year	Intensive	she.did.not.see.him

She, the person looking for him, didn’t see him for a year.

[24]	xás	vúra	mah'íitnihach	pishíich	u'imkatáxrahvarak
	then	Intensive	early.morning	first	it.was.bright.from.upriver

And (when she looked) the light was first coming down from upriver, early in the morning.

[25]	árus	u'átivutih
	seed.basket	she.was.carrying.in.a.basket

She carried a seed-basket.

[26]	ithâan	kumamáh'iit	umá	pachánchaaf	yíiv	á'	vúra	úkrii
	once	once.morning	she.saw	the.foam	far	above	Intensive	it.sits

One morning she saw the foam was up high.

[27]	xás	pachánchaaf	páy	únish	pachánchaaf	utaxyásur
	then	the.foam	this	she.did.to	the.foam	she.pushed.it.apart.with.her.hands

So she did like this to the foam, she separated the foam with her hands.

[28]	víriva	kumasuruk	pa'ávansa	upêethruprav
	so.it	its.underneath	the.man	she.took.it.back.out

There she took the man out from underneath it.

[29]	pamú'iish	uum	tá	púfaat	utheekvárahitih
	his.flesh	3.SG	PERF	nothing	he.was.very.thin

His flesh was all gone by now, he was like a skeleton.

[30]	árusak	sú'	tóo	pthaanámnih
	in.the.seed-basket	inside	she.did	put.him.back.into.it

So she put him inside the seed-basket.

[31]	xás	iinâak	tupaatífuruk
	then	indoors	she.carried.him.back.indoors

And she carried him back into the house.

[32]	víriva	ithahárinay	pukínmaahtihap
	so.it	a.whole.year	they.did.not.see.him

People didn’t see him for a year.

[33]	ithahárinay	utháaniv
	a.whole.year	he.lay

He lay (there) for a year.

[34]	xás	uyvúrukti	sakankooréekpat
	then	she.rubbed.on.him	deer.leg-bone.marrow

And she rubbed deer’s leg-bone marrow on him.

[35]	vaa	u'íifti	pamú'iish
	so	it.grew	his.flesh

Thus his flesh grew.

[36]	púyava	vaa	ithahárinay	tóo	yvúruk	péekpat
	you.see	so	a.whole.year	she.did	rub	the.marrow

So she rubbed marrow on him for a year.

[37]	púyava	ithahárinay	xás	tá	yav
	you.see	a.whole.year	then	PERF	good

So in a year he was all right.

[38]	koovura'îin	patá	kun'áakup	chí	nuthtîiti
	everybody	that	they.challenged.him	soon	let's.gamble

Everybody challenged him, "Let’s gamble!"

[39]	púyava	vúra	uum	yíchaach	tóo	kyâafip	pá'uup
	you.see	Intensive	3.SG	together	he.had	make.completely	the.possessions

And he won all their possessions.

[40]	tuyaas'áraaraha
	he.became.rich

He became rich.