Harry Achenam | Harry Achenam |
(1)kîtahtawê mîna sipwêhtêwak opwâsîmôwak, ê-nitopayicik. tâni-tahto-tipiskâw âsay kâ-sipwêhtêcik, ê-kapêsicik, mitoni kîkisêpâ ê-wayawîstamâsot, kâ-matwê-nikamot. êkosi kotak mîna wayawîw. âsay mîna êwako kâ-matwê-nikamot, kotak mîna wayawîw mîna. êkosi kotakak kahkiyaw pêyakwan ê-tôtahkik, mîna ê-mâtocik, mitâtaht nîsosâp ê-ihtasicik. |
(1)Once upon a time, again, some Assiniboine went out on the war-path. They had been gone I know not how many days, and were camping for the night, when very early in the morning, as one went out of the tent for a call of nature, he was heard singing. Then another, too, went out. When this one also was heard to sing, another, also went out. All the rest did the same, and they wept, likewise, twelve men in number. |
(2)êkosi pêyak kakwêcihkêmôw tânêhki k-ô-mâtoyit, êkosi kâ-wîhtamâkot tânêhki k-ô-mâtoyit. wiya namoya cêskwa kî-wayawîw êwako kâ-kakwêcihkêmot. |
(2)Then one of them inquired why they were weeping, and so they told him why they wept. The one who inquired had not yet gone out of the tent. |
(3)awa nistam kâ-wayawît ômisi itêw owîcêwâkana: «kâ-wî-kiskêyihtaman, kahkiyaw nitiskwêwinân, k-ô-mâtoyâhk.» |
(3)The one who had first gone out thus informed his companion: «The answer to your question is that we are weeping because we have all turned into women.» |
(4)êkosi ômisi itêw: «ahpô êtokê ôma kinipîminaw ohci. niya wiya kêyâpic âta wiya ninâpêwin. mâka mâskôc pêyakwan nik-êspayin, wayawiyiyâni.» |
(4)Then he answered him, «It may well be due to the water we have been drinking. As for me, I am still a man. But perhaps the same thing will happen to me, if I go out.» |
(5)mâka mitoni kinwêsk kî-kostam ta-wayawît, wîsta kita-iskwêwit. êkosi maywês wayawît, pita kî-nikamôw. |
(5)But for a long while he was afraid to go out of the tent, lest he too turn into a woman. So before going out, he first sang. |
(6)ômisi itêw owîcêwâkana: «tâpwê mâmaskâc kahkiyaw iskwêwiyahko!» |
(6)He said to his companions, «It would be strange indeed, if we all turned into women!» |
(7)êkosi ati-wayawîw. wiya mîna pêyakwan iskwêwiw. êkosi êkota kahkiyaw mâtôwak, ê-mihtâtahkik ê-iskwêwicik. kî-osîhtâwak wîkiwâw nîpiya ohci.1 êkosi awa kâ-kî-nîkâni-wayawît pîhtokêw wîkiwâhk. pôti ê-nitawâpênâsot, kî-nâpêwiw. êkosi kotakak pîhtokêwak. kahkiyaw nâpêwiwak. |
(7)Then he went out. Like the others, he turned into a woman. So then they all wept, grieving that they had become women. They built themselves a lodge of leaves. Then he who first had gone out went into their lodge. Then, when he looked at himself to see, he saw that he was a man again. [Vidit tum, cum se inspiceret, virilem sibi esse sexum.] So the others also went inside. They all turned into men. |
(8)«êkosi piko ta-kîwêyahk,» itwêwak. |
(8)«There is nothing to do now except to go back home,» they said. |
(9)tâpwê kî-kîwêwak. êkosi kîhtwâm kî-kostamwak êwako kapêsiwin. kî-wîhtamâtôwak êkosi. |
(9)Accordingly they went back home. So after that they feared that camping site. They told each other about it. |