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Spilyay Tym oo, V W ro Springs, Oregon A ug ust 2 8 ,2 0 0 8 Page Í3 THE CONFEDERATED TRIBES LANGUAGE LESSON ---------------------------------------- Final Foods & Ending the Season ----------------------------------------- Paiute Numu natukana Final foods Ha oo mu e pubu’a, e nanumu? How are you, m y friends and relatives? Tatza moasoo kadoo’oo managa’a. Our summer months are almost gone. Sahaptin Tiyam ku Shatampama tkwata, tFaaxwq’a wiyak’uk’ut anwichtash. Ifgwamax aga ifaskutc’. Fall and Summer foods th a t are ending and we are preparing fo r the Winter. Tt’aaxw tanan itmaanisha wiwnuna anwichtash. A ll people are picking Huckleberries a t this time o f the year fo r the Winter. Kushxi pailaxauwisha ku patwashasha nusux. Ka taba egase na’utsutsu. When the sun goes down it gets cold. A nd also last o f the year salmon are being caught and people are drying, canning, and so on. Togapono’a moasoo natsapoka. I t ’s time to pick huckleber ries. Wasq'u «¿SV. Days are ge tting shorter. Saqw aga idmifxlem andutga. A ll the food th a t you gathered is p u t away. Chawibut, ukwashaqwt, duchxumix itfxlem. Frozen, dried, canned foods. Aga afgiúldamida: Now le t’s all pray: 0 ’ Shaxel Ishtamx, Asmq’a atiyatsha ilaxiyauwish. O’ God And also people are drying eels. U ha numuno tutsapoka? It’ukdi maika Did you go pick huckleberries ? You are good Ahaa! Dauda it ’ukdi itfxlem Yes/ This good food 0 pesa u manakwe! Hope you had fun! Ku chau ata tun tmsh ckikuuk. And there are hardly any chokecherries. Ki ha’noyo tooesapooe mana na’a. Tt’aaxw patkwata kakyaiin, ku xiyauniin ticham iwa. There are hardly any chokecher ries. The birds ate the chokecher ries and the land is too dry. Uka no’oko Numu tatsukana matzopase te ’a ... Mendenchlut kiwaba enshaika amdenshiuda kanawa You have given us, in yo u r name It’ukdi kiwaba imixan, Jesus Christ And give all good things to us fo r the sake o f Jesus Christ Ikushnam ksks t ’tauwaxt tananma wiyanishta tkw atat anwichtash. I f you gathered foods and pre served them ... ... Ya tom o u pesa tukakwe. ... You will eat well this winter. Amen This is the way to preserve food fo r the Winter. Au ai tt’aaxw! íi au! Mow pesa mu, saa mu poonedooa. Take care and we’ll see you later. Want another reason to get away from English? Take a look at this editorial piece! http://www.jimpoz.com/jokes Let’s face it. English is a crazy lan guage. There is no egg in eggplant nor ham in hamburger; neither apple nor pine in pine apple. English muffins weren’t invented in England or French fries in France. Sweet meats are candies while sweetbreads, which aren’t sweet, are meat. single annal? If you have a bunch of odds and ends and get rid of all but one of them, what do you call it? If teachers taught, why didn’t preachers praught? If a vegetarian eats vegetables, what does a humanitarian eat? If you wrote a letter, perhaps you bote your tongue? We take English for granted. But if we Sometimes I think all the English speak explore its paradoxes, we find that quicksand can work slowly, boxing rings are square and a ers should be committed to an asylum for the verbally insane. In what language do people guinea pig is neither from Guinea nor is it a recite at a play and play at a recital? Ship by pig- truck and send cargo by ship? Have noses that run and feet that smell? Park on drive And why is it that writers write but ways and drive on parkways? fingers don’t fing, grocers don’t groce and hammers don’t ham? If the plural of tooth is How can a slim chance and a fa t chance teeth, why isnt the plural of booth beeth? be the same, while a wise man and a wise guy One goose, two geese. So one moose, two are opposites? How can overlook and oversee meese? One index, two indices? be opposites, while quite a lot and quite a few are alike? How can the weather be hot as hell Doesn’t it seem crazy that you can one day and cold as hell another? Have you make amends but not one amend, that you noticed that we talk about certain things only comb through annals of history but not a when they are absent? Have you ever seen a horseful carriage or a strapful gown? Met a sung hero or experienced requited love? Have you ever run into someone who was combobulated, gruntled, ruly or peccable? And where are all those people who are spring chickens or who would actually hurt a fly? You have to marvel at the unique lunacy of a language in which your house can burn up as it burns down, in which you fill in a form by filling it out and in which an alarm goes o ff by going on. English was invented by people, not computers, and it reflects the creativity of the human race (which, of course, isn’t a race at all). That is why, when the stars are out, they are visible, but when the lights are out, they are invisible. And why, when I wind up my watch, I start it, but when I wind up this es say, I end it. Reminds me of the oxymorons. Jumbo shrimp, honest crook... - credited to Dave Wisneski
