Nettie Ruben: "Deer Hunting" (1957)

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[1]	papúufich	kun'ákunvunaati	víriva	ánav	tá	kuníkyam	máh'iit
	when.deer	they.were.hunting	so	medicine	PERF	they.made	morning

When they hunted deer, they made medicine in the morning.

[2]	tá	kunpikxúramnih
	PERF	they.finished

They finished.

[3]	kári	xás	tuvákirar
	then	then	he.started.to.go

Then (the hunter) started out

[4]	víriva	vúra	ûumukich	tóo	máh	papúufich
	so	Intensive	near	he.would	see	the.deer

He would see the deer close by.

[5]	púyava	itráhyar	tóo	ykar
	you.see	ten	he.would	beat

He would kill ten.

[6]	tupáfip
	he.had.used.up

He used up (his limit).

[7]	púyava	xás	kári	tóo	pvâaram
	you.see	then	then	he.would	go.back

Then he would go home.

[8]	púyava	kúkuum	vúra	imáan	tu'ákunvar
	you.see	again	Intensive	tomorrow	he.would.go.hunting

He would go hunting again the next day.

[9]	papi'êep	kunkupa'ákunvutihanik	kun'ákeekvutih
	when.long.ago	they.hunted.in.this.way	they.carried.bows

They carried bows when they hunted, long ago.

[10]	káru	pavimtáap	kuntakváratih
	also	the.arrows	they.wore.them.across.their.chests

And they carried the arrows across their chest.

[11]	káru	káakum	mah'íitnihach	kuntátapvunaati
	also	some	early.morning	they.were.trapping

And some men were trapping early in the morning.

[12]	pa'ípaha	u'íihya	patáaskar	tá	kunimthátap
	where.a.tree	it.stood	the.pole	PERF	they.lashed.it.onto.it

Where a tree stood, they lashed a pole to it.

[13]	koovúra	uyvúrukahiti	papufich'ánav
	all	it.was.rubbed.with	the.deer.medicine

They rubbed deer medicine on everything.

[14]

víriva

máh'iit

patá

kuntátapvanva

víri

vaa

ukupítih

pamukunchíshiih

víri

koovúra

pamukunchíshii

ánav

tá

kuniyvúrukva

so

morning

when

they.went.trapping

so

so

it.did.it

their.dog

so

all

their.dogs

medicine

PERF

they.rubbed.them.with

When they went trapping in the morning, their dogs would do this, they would all be rubbed with medicine.

[15]	xás	tá	kunívyiihship
	then	PERF	they.went.away

Then they went off.

[16]	púyava	máruk	pachishíi	papúufich	tá	kuniyvúnpiithva
	you.see	uphill	the.dogs	when.deer	PERF	they.chased.them.around

The dogs chased the deer around uphill.

[17]	víriva	kúuk	tá	kun'ahávoo	páchishiih
	so	to.there	PERF	they.herded.them.towards	the.dogs

The dogs would herd them there (towards the traps).

[18]	víriva	kúuk	tá	kunívyiihma	pamukun'ímpaah
	so	to.there	PERF	they.went.to	their.paths

(The deer) would go to their paths.

[19]	víriva	ukupitih	patupaxfúroo	papúufich
	so.thusly	they.did.it	when.they.caught.them	the.deer

That's what they did, when they snared deer.

[20]	púyava	koovúra	tá	kuniykáranaa
	you.see	all	PERF	they.killed.them

They killed them all.

[21]	púyava	kári	tá	kunpávyiihship	taay	tá	kuníykar	papúufich
	you.see	then	PERF	they.went.back.home	much	PERF	they.killed.them	the.deer

Then they went back home, they had killed lots of deer.

[22]	púyava	vúra	kóomahich
	you.see	Intensive	little.bit

That's all.