Phoebe Maddux: They Knew That Seeds Will Grow (1932)
Primary participants: Phoebe Maddux (speaker), John P. Harrington (researcher)
Date: 1932
Project identifier: JPH_TKIC-IV.3
Publication details: John Peabody Harrington, Tobacco Among the Karuk
Indians of California (1932), pp. 65-66
Additional contributor: Karie Moorman (annotator)
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vúra ník mít vaa kun'aapúnmutihat pa'úhish u'ífeesh |
They Knew That Seeds Will Grow |
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nuu vúra pakuma'áraaras vúra pufâat úhish ipsháruktihaphanik, xáat máruk kunifyúkutihanik. kúna vúra vaa kun'aapúnmutihanik pa'áraar, hôoy vúrava pa'úhish pookyívishrihaak, vaa vúra íkiich u'ífeesh, kun'aapúnmutihanik vúra vaa. kun'aapúnmutihanik vúra ník pa'úhish ník vúra kunsánpiithvutihanik pakookâachas. |
Our kind of people never used to pack seed home, I do not care if they had been going around upslope. But the people knew, that if a seed drops any place, it will maybe grow up; they knew that way. They knew that seeds were packed around in various ways. |
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hâari axmáy'ik vúra fátaak tá kunmah vaa vúra taay pátayiith, xás sú' patá kun'ûupvakurih. yanéekva vúra uum taay sú'. hâari vaa káan vúra mupîimach tá kunmah akthiptunveechiváxrah âapun ithivthaneensúruk. fâat vaa vúra vaa pávaa kupítihan, man'áta axraas. vúra fâatva vaa vúra pávaa kupítihan, sú' ithivthaneensúruk usanpîithvutih. |
Sometimes they see at some place a lot of Indian potatoes, and then they dig in under. Behold there are lots underneath. Sometimes nearby there they see lots of wild oat straw under the ground. It is something that is doing that, maybe a gopher. Something is doing that, is packing it around down under the ground. |