Julia Starritt: "How the Rube Family Was Named" (1957)

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[1]	yítha	áraar	apxantínihich	ukyavíichvihitihanik
	one	human	white.man	he.worked.for

A certain Indian once worked for a white man.

[2]	xás	ithâan	kuméeshyaav	vúra	puxích	tupáthrih	pa'íshaha	tu'uh
	then	once	some.winter	Intensive	very.much	it.rained	the.water	it.rose

And one winter it rained hard, the water rose.

[3]	xás	paapxantínihich	upíip	chími	kâam	vâarami	peevapithváram
	then	the.white.man	he.says	soon	little.upriver	go.away	store

And the white man said, "Go upriver to the store!

[4]	sáran	sii	káru	yúfish	káru	asúxiim	káru	rope
	go.get.(things)	awl	also	salt	also	sugar-pine.gum	also	rope

Go get nails and salt and sugar and rope!"

[5]	xás	ta'ítam	uvâaramaheen
	then	so	he.went

So the Indian went.

[6]	xás	uthvuyâanati	ípa	kóo	kunípeerat	ikvan
	then	he.was.naming	PAST	all	they.said	buy

And he was naming all that they had told him to buy.

[7]	xás	u'uum	pathúufak
	then	he.arrives	to.the.creek

And he got to the creek.

[8]	yána	vúra	kêech	tu'uh
	visible	Intensive	big	it.had.risen

He saw that it had risen high.

[9]	xás	ufáathkar	xás	vúra	kúnish	tu'ay	pa'íshaha
	then	he.wades.in	then	Intensive	sort.of	he.fears	the.water

Then he waded in, but he was sort of afraid of the water.

[10]	xás	chímiva	ukyívish
	then	soon	he.falls.down

And suddenly he fell down.

[11]	xás	koovúra	tupipshinvárihva	péethvuy	ípa	kunípeerat	ikvan
	then	all	he.forgot	the.name	PAST	they.said	buy

And he forgot all the names that they had told him to buy.

[12]	xás	yícheech	vúra	kích	upikrôok	rúup
	then	alone	Intensive	only	he.remembers

And he only remembered one thing, "rúup."

[13]	xás	poo'árihroov	kích	poopíti	rúup	rúup
	then	when.he.goes.upriver	only	he.was.saying

So as he went upriver he was saying nothing but "rúup, rúup."

[14]	xás	u'uum	papeevapithváram
	then	he.arrives	the.store

Then he arrived at the store.

[15]	xás	kunipêer	fâat	panu'ákiheesh
	then	they.say	what	we.will.give.you

And they said to him, "What can we give you?"

[16]	rúup	rúup

"rúup, rúup."

[17]	xás	paapxantínihich	upíip	Oh	rope
	then	the.white.man	he.says	Oh	rope

And the white man (the storekeeper) said, "Oh, rope!"

[18]	xás	u'êe	pá'aan
	then	he.gives	the.rope

And he gave him the rope.

[19]	xás	papeevapíthvaan	upíip	fâat	kúna
	then	the.storekeeper	he.says	what	in.addition

And the storekeeper said, "What else?"

[20]	xás	upíip	man'áta	tá	punapikrôokara
	then	he.says	maybe	PERF	I.don't.remember

And he said, "I don’t know, I've forgotten."

[21]	xás	vaa	vúra	upíthvuuymath	rúup
	then	so	Intensive	he.names

So they named him Rube.

[22]	xás	payêem	vaa	vúra	mukun'íthvuy	rúup
	then	now	so	Intensive	their.name

And now (his descendants') name is Rube.