Maggie Charley: "Indian Food" (1957)

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[1]	píshiich	pakun'áraarahiti	pa'asiktávaansas	ápkaas	kun'íshumtih
	first	as.they.lived	the.women	iris.sp.	they.scraped.it

As they lived at first, the women scraped iris leaves.

[2]	xás	pa'ávansa	vaa	kunparíshriihva	pa'ápkaas
	then	the.man	so	they.twined.it.into.string	the.iris.leaves

And the men twined the iris leaves into string.

[3]	xás	urípi	kunvik
	then	net	they.wove.them

And they wove nets.

[4]	xás	ishkêeshak	imvír	kuníkyav
	then	in.the.river	fishery	they.made.them

And they made fisheries in the river.

[5]	xás	vaa	káan	kuníkriihva	táay	kuníykar	pa'áama
	then	so	there	they.fished.(with.a.set-net)	much	they.caught.them	the.salmon

And they fished there, they caught a lot of fish.

[6]	xás	pa'asiktávaansas	kuníhviithtih
	then	the.women	they.cleaned.(the.fish)

And the women cleaned (the fish).

[7]	xás	pimnaníhraam	vaa	káan	kuníkyav
	then	summer.camp	so	there	they.made.it

And they made a summer-camp there.

[8]	xás	vaa	káan	kunsuváxra	pa'áama
	then	so	there	they.dried.them	the.salmon

And they dried the salmon there.

[9]	pa'asiktávaansas	uum	kun'ífikvunaa	xuntápan
	the.women	3.SG	they.gathered.them	acorn

The women gathered acorns.

[10]	pa'áama	kun'áamti	káru	vúra	pa'éekoons
	the.salmon	they.eat.them	also	Intensive	the.acorns

They ate the salmon and the acorns.

[11]	káakum	pa'éekoons	táay	vúra	tá	kun'ífik	xás	itahara'átimnam	kóo	tóo	píishha
	some	the.acorns	much	Intensive	PERF	they.gathered.them	then	ten.baskets	as.much.as	he.had	soak.acorns

Some people gathered a lot of acorns, and put as many as ten baskets to soak.

[12]	kuyrakhárinay	xás	amáyav	pápiish
	in.three.years	then	good-tasting	the.soaked.acorns

In three years, then the soaked acorns were good-tasting.

[13]	pufích'aan	tóo	kyav
	string.for.snares	he.had	make

They made twine for deer-traps.

[14]	vaa	púufich	kunkupeeykárahiti	pa'áraar	kuntátapvutih
	so	deer	they.killed.them.that.way	the.Indians	they.trapped.them

The Indians killed deer that way, they trapped them.

[15]	axaksúpaa	tupmúsan	pamutátapva
	two.days	he.went.to.see	his.traps

Every two days they would go look at their traps.

[16]	vaa	kunkupeeykárahiti	papúufich
	so	they.killed.them.that.way	the.deer

They killed the deer that way.

[17]	xás	koovúra	vaa	kun'áamtih	papúufich	káru	pa'áama	káru	pa'éekoons	káru	pápiish
	then	all	so	they.ate.it	the.deer	also	the.salmon	also	the.acorns	also	the.soaked.acorns

And they ate all that, the deer and the salmon and the acorns and the soaked acorns.

[18]	akráa	káru	kun'áamtih
	eel	also	they.ate.them

They ate eels too.

[19]	paxúrish	tóo	krav	páykuuk	ása	múuk
	the.shelled.acorns	he.had	grind	over.there	rock	with.(by.means.of)

They ground the shelled acorns with that stone over there (pointing to a pestle).

[20]	xás	tuthántap	paxúrish
	then	he.sifted.it	the.shelled.acorns

And they sifted the shelled acorns.

[21]	xás	sáruk	tutákir	astiip
	then	downhill	he.leached.it	shore

And they leached them, downhill on the river bank.

[22]	xás	áhkaam	tóo	kyav
	then	a.big.fire	he.had	make

And they made a big fire.

[23]	pa'ás	tóo	párish
	the.stones	he.had	heat.cooking.stones

They heated stones (for cooking).

[24]	xás	asípkaam	tumáhyaan	pa'éekoons
	then	a.big.soup-basket	he.had.put.it.in	the.acorns

And they put the acorns in a big soup-basket.

[25]	tu'arámpuk
	he.had.cooked.acorn.soup

They cooked acorn soup.

[26]	xás	kun'áamtih
	then	they.ate.it

Then they ate it.