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SpilyayTymoo
Warm Springs, Oregon
January 16, 1997 7
Wasco and Paiute Language-
Raccoon and his Grandmother
A wasco legend
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Gangadix ik alalas kwadau ayak is
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wigwa vvalu gagiux. Gaciaxgmcxuga dan Galixkw ayaitambt galixpsut isqatlxacxba. Ka tuhoavvina yise
Paiute Language Lesson
Friday I & II
Legends
Coyote and the Mouse
Ka onosoo osoo etza'a ka tseayina
Tuhoawi. (A long time ago when the
coyote was hungry he went hunting.)
ilxlm bama luq aciuxa.
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pongadze tsakadu.
(While he was hunting
he caught this mouse.)
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Gagiugmcxuga, k axs gmux ci aiagaminr Kwapt ayak is gagiunaxlam. Galuyambt
K aya k axs gaciux. Gagiugmcxuga, "Qngi lkw ayatba, gagilqaxit lqusdiaxa saqw
ibiaxi?" Kaya, galikim. "Qngi ik apaks?"
"K aya."
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gadixlmx itsdagulul. Aga kwapt ikmakan jvle'e osoo pongadze
gacuxa
Ki meno'o e tukapana nu tudzeyoo, u ka
e tuka makwuse u toisoo tseayikwe".
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Qngi waquc kwadau asapqwix? "K aya."
"Qngi aqulul? K axs ci qmuxt?" "Au,"
gacuxa, "K axs gnuxt agulul."
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Nawit galaxkw a. Galaxkw ayaitambt
gagiglkl ixpsut isqatlxacxba.
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Ayak is gagiulxam, "Agamuya itxakw
ayadiamt. Kwabalma aixt ak un sit ix
agulul lug amuxa," gagiulxam. "Au, ayak
is, ala nxulmxma aixt kwadau sit ix
agulul," galikim. Kwapt tl aq gayuya.
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Gayuyaaa, gayuyam. Saqw gadixlmx
itsdagulul ikw ayatba. K aya aixt ak un
sit ix agulul galaixlmx ayak is diwi
gagiulxam. Kwapt galixkw a.
Kwapt gagiugwililxlck, iyagiciamt nawit
axmkitbayaic iqatlxacxng. Qidauyamt
yaxdau ik alalas dat sip iyak inulmax.
ENGLISH TRANSLATION:
Page 1 : Long, long ago Raccoon and his grandmother
lived at C nigas. One day Raccoon was hungry so he
asked his Grandmother for something to eat. Page 2:
She asked him, "Do you want lakamin?" He didn't
want it. She asked him, "Do you want Piaxi?" He
didn't want it. She asked him, "Do you want fish
head?" He didn't want it; Page 3: "What about
salmon and dumplings?" He didn't want that either.
Then his grandmother asked, "how about some
acorns? Do you want that?" "Yes." He said "I want
some acorns." Page 4: Grandmother said, "You may
go to our acorn pit but you may only eat one and a
half acorns." "Yes grandmother," he promised, "I will
only eat one and half acorns." So raccoon set out.
Page 5: When he got to the acorn pit, Raccoon did not
cat just one and a half acorns as his grandmother had
told him, he at all of the acorns in the pit. Then he
headed for home. Page 6: When he got home, he hid
by the fireplace. Page 7: His grandmother got wor
ried about him when she didn't see him for awhile so
she went looking for him. She went to the acorn pit
and she way that Raccoon had cat all of the acorns in
the pit. Grandmother became very angry because he
grandson Raccoon did not obey her. Page 8: Grand
mother hurried home. When she got there she way
that her grandson was hiding by the fireplace. Page 9:
She picked up a burnt stick and whipped him from
the tip of his nose to the end of his tail. That is how
the Raccoon got his markings. (As told by Phillip
Kahclamat, translation by Gladys Thompson and
Madeline Mclnturlf Copyright 1988, the Confederated
Tribes of Warm Springs Oregon.)
Ka etza'a netamma.
("Don't eat me now
I'm just little, after
you are through eat
ing me you will still
be hungry." Said the mouse to the coy
ote.) "Aadza. Ha'o sakwa nu mane?" Me osoo
edza'a pusoo natubengu. ("Hmm. What
should I do?" the coyote asked himself.)
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O'no yise osoo pongadze ka etza'a meo
netamma U ka meno'o teepu naga e
masuakuse, ono sa'a nu pabatse
manebetugakwe, Ono
u ewasoo tukakwe."
(So then the mouse
told the coyote, "If
you plant me in the
ground now, then
later I'll grow to be
big. Then you'll have
a lot more to eat.")
O'no yise osoo edza'a
ka pongadze koohoose
mea. Sa'asoo, osoo
pongadze watze
tsepoo'ekase
ta'nomanika. (So, the
coyote buried the
mouse, then left.
Later, the mouse
snuck out and ran
off.)
Vocabulary List
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Etza'a Coyote
Tseayina Hungry
Tuhoawi Hunting
Pongadze Mouse
Nu I or me
Tuka Eat
Aazda Hmm
Teepu Ground
Masuakuse Plant
Pabatse'e Big
Koohoose Buried
Tsepoo'ekase Snuck off
Ta'nomanika Ran off
Pusoo natubengu Ask himself