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THE CONFEDERATED TRIBES LANGUAGE LESSON
May 50. 2002
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Memorial Day
aiute Lesson
Bring your lawn and garden tools, gloves and
water for a day of clean up at the cemetery.
Remembering our
loved ones that have
gone on. Get your
Spiliyay out and say
these phrases with us.
Moasoo tame!
Qawadiksh ichaxwi engi axduxa itk'iwax.
Some people made paper flowers.
Kwapt tt'uk alixaxa
ipark-yamt.
Then everyone
came back to the park.
Awamoa'soo
nanesootuhi'yoose.
Prayers in the morning
when you go out to
the cemetery.
if A? ,
Te nanumukapu
sooma'yuna.
Remebering our loved
ones.
Numu natugukwitoo
mabeseakwe.
Cleaning the cemetery.
No'oko mu hemma
masumukuse.
Get your cleaning tools out.
Ewayoo tonebe matapooese.
Let's make pretty flowers.
Tamme tumasuakakwe.
Let's go decorate.
Penakwe mu poonedooa!
See you next time!
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asco Lesson
Gangadix, qanchix alma
kwaish ishk'ashk'ashbet
ishandix shk'ix.
Long ago, when we our
grandmothers were young.
Aqukinxaya itk'iwax
idmimlushdikshba kwapt
qigamtgix ku aluxuxa i-parkba.
The people gathered at the park.
Aga iyaxliuwix "Quinn-Park."
Now it's called "Quinn Park. "
Kwapt kanawi shan atuya itkimxat
yamt. Agency kwadau Tenino kwapt
T'axci.
Everyone followed each other to the
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cemetaries: Agency, then Tenino, then Dry
Creek.
Aga aluya itlelxamba tutkix.
Then everyone went to where J
everyone
their people are buried.
Kanawi shan kw'et kw'et
akJuxa itk'iwax.
Everyone picked wild flowers.
Kwapt aluxitxelma
ittaxiqiqwt.
Then everyone ate lunch.
Kwapt aluxa k'ittxuma saqw kwapt atgia
t'axawci-yamt.
Then everyone all when to the all then
went to Dry Creek Cemetary.
Aga kwapt saqw kanawi aluxa kw'aiwa.
Then everyone went home.
Qidau gangadix galixt 'kiax idelxam.
That's how our people did it a long time
ago.
s
ahaptin Lesson
Ana kwaamanai alalfwasha ku
naktkwanint Yawatash.
Memorial Day
Mimiknf nami ntananma panaktkwanina
yawatash. Anakuuk nch'f ticham
tamanwit iikwustimiya Laliwat Sulcas (
Lkw'l. Anaku iwiyatt'uxnxa alxaix,
Xawit'an.
Our
ancestors
took care of
their loved
ones graves
since the U.S.A. Government set a special
Memorial Day to remember the soldiers of the
past wars. This day is observed each year,
end of May.
Natit
Flowers
Yawatash
Grave, Graveyard, cemetery
Imatakt Patulpatul
Clean weeds, and old decoration
Ticham
Land
Chikuuk lkw'l iwa p'xt ana kwaamanai
alaliwasha, kuna wa naktkwaninait
yawatash.
This day is to remember our deceased.
Auna imalakatasha yawatas.
Lets go and clean our graves now.
Kuna auku wapawata yawatash natitki
ku tuun tuun ayayat tanwaittki.
Then we will decorate the graves with flowers
and other ornaments.
These are expressions that are missed in the
community be some of us older generation,
these are the disciplinary words that we used
to hear when our parents would discipline us.
And there were community members that hd
asked to put these words on the language
lessons. So here are three of the words for
you to enjoy:
qw'shti
for shame
lamamk
expression for
making a mistake or
if some one is
getting into mischief
or teasing someone
and then hsshe is
told this.
Awakwt
quit or behave, quit
bothering
Language Classes:
Wasco: Mondays from 3:30 to 5 PM
in the Education Building (1st Floor
Training Room)
Paiute: Wednesdays from 3:30 to 5
PM in the Language Trailer.
Sahaptin: Tuesdays and Thursdays
from 3:30 to 5 PM in the Language
Home Base Classes:
Wasco: Thursdays from 6 to 8 PM.
Held at Cladys Tompson's Home
(For info, call Val Switlzer at
553-3575.)
Paiute: Tuesdays from 5 to 8 PM.
Held at Cheryl Lohman s Home.
Sahaptin: Thursdays from 5 to 8 PM.
Held in the Simnasho Area.
(For info, call Suzie Slockish at