Ma-te-na tama wikhasiw It hasn't been written anywhere
skicin eli-nomihtaq– from an Indian point of view–
tahaluhp psiw yut—tehpu like all this—
ewikhasik kis ikolisoman eli-nomihtaq just what the white man sees.
Yet kete wikhikonol For example,
kisuwikhasuwol. Iya, there have been books written.
keq not liwisu? What's his name?
’Kisihtun book. He wrote a book.
Mecimiw legislature iyu. He used to be in the legislature.
Neil Rolde, olu. It was Neil Rolde.
Kat-olu neket… Of course, at that time…
Kisuwikhok nit, iyey, land claims. He wrote about the land claims.
Nekom tehpu nit eli-nomihtaq, That was just how he saw it,
ma kahk kilun. not us.
Ma-te, iyey, No, it was
ma-te tama skicin tan-op nothing about what the Indian
eli-pawatok kosona eli-nomihtaq, would want or see, because
'sami kilun tehpu what we wanted was
pawatomoqpon ewecitu. what we had had before.
Tehpu pawatomoqpon We wanted what was
kisi-wihqonasik yut, ihik, Township, taken here at Township,
nit-olu Strip oloqiw, naka over by the Strip, and
nit, iyey, GP-ona kisi-wihqonok; what GP took;
well, it wasn't GP, well, it wasn't GP,
it was keq, St. Croix Paper. it was, what? St. Croix Paper.
Nit tehpu, That was all,
tehpu nit apaci… that was all…
I think kil neket… I think at that time you…
Nit tehpu etoli-apaci-wihkutomeq. That was all you were asking back.
On tokec-op tpost-… And now, if they had
tpostakiyek neke, listened to us at that time,
nit-tehp… that would…
Alienated lots. Alienated lots.
Aha. Iya. Yes. Ya.
Ma-te nit, iyey, It wasn't…
ma nit ktanaqotu, ma tahk it wasn't much,
pecitahasultiwiyik, 'sami but they didn't think much of it,
ikolisoman because
ma-te 'kihcitomitahatomuwon neket at that time white people didn't value
kilun skicinuwok eli-nomihtuwoq. what we as Indians saw.
So ktomhannuk-ote, So we defeated them,
nekomaw-ote, iyey, tahalu, in their own court. and in their own court.
Ma-te kihcitomitahtomkuwinnuk; They didn't think much of us;
litahasultuwok they thought
ma-te kilun keq kocicihtuhpon. we didn't know anything.
Mec-ote ktenaqsuwok nit elitahasultihtit. A lot of them still think that way.