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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