Cranberries

Start Time	Peskotomuhkati-Wolastoqey	English
01:14	'Tiyali-kiluwahtuniya elihpihtit.	They (eagles) are looking for something to eat.
01:40	Nmiyawinomon your truck.	I like the looks of your truck.
01:42	U, ya?	Oh, really?
01:44	Yut ehtahc kpistehsinupon, in there.	We will go land, in there.
01:47	Yuta?	Here?
02:10	Wolikonul?	Are they good?
02:11	Yes, sir, good one...	Yes, sir, good one...
02:12	Boy.	Boy.
02:19	Suwonol.	Cranberries.
02:20	Iyap. Wolihpukotul tehna.	Yes. They are good tasting, too.
02:29	Ansa ponapskul metehtehsok.	It's like the sound of stones falling.
02:43	Tan ci wisokolamsok...	When it's very windy...
02:45	Iya	Yes.
02:46	...monolamsonul-ote mipiyil.	...the leaves blow off.
03:04	A lot of berries.	A lot of berries.
03:18	Wolikonul.	They're good ones.
04:13	Last year...	Last year...
04:14	...mocikonul.	...they were no good.
04:15	Mocikonul?	No good?
04:15	Iya.	Yes.
04:16	Tokec aqami-wolikonul?	Are they better now?
04:18	Iya. 'Sami...	Yes. Because...
04:19	Etutopotek summer.	Summer was so hot.
04:21	Naka, iyey...	And...
04:22	Siqon-na nit.	Spring, too.
04:24	Ma natomolanu?	It didn't rain too much?
04:25	Nama.	No.
04:26	Kiyasqi-te?	Just right?
04:26	Kiyasqi-te, naka toke eci-woli, iyey...	Just right, and now they are very...
04:29	Pqeyuwol toke.	They're red now.
04:29	Woli-pqeyuwol?	Good and red?
04:32	Kenoq nit-te	But once
04:33	neqt kolotok, nit-tehc nuhkeyuwol.	the frost hits, then they go soft.
04:35	Nit-tehc nukcokiyetul.	Then they get mushy.
04:38	Kenoq wolikonul...	But they are good...
04:39	Wolikonul yuhtol.	These are good.
04:40	Psi-te eluwe pesqon elkihqahk.	They're all about the same size.
04:43	Iya, 'sami yut,	Yes, because here,
04:45	mecimi-te yut, iyey...	here it's always...
04:46	Mecimi-te wol...	This is always...
04:47	Pomoqohon yut.	This becomes a floating bog.
04:48	Pomoqohon yuta. Psi-te kehsok.	It's floating here. All of it.
04:49	Naka mecimi-te 'samaqan...	Ya. And the water always...
04:52	Weci-woli-macekok.	So they will grow well.
04:54	Ipa, eci-wolikok yehtol.	Look at how good those are.
04:55	I know it, cel	I know it,
04:57	nil-oc nihtol naciptunol next week.	and I will go get those next week.
04:59	Haw.	Go ahead!
05:00	Frost yaq this weekend.	They say frost this weekend.
05:02	Cipotu-te skat.	Maybe not.
05:04	On-ote couple quarts nituwiyanil.	I only need a couple quarts.
05:05	U ya.	Oh, yes.
05:07	Take some of these. Nil, I got plenty.	Take some of these. Me, I've got plenty.
05:08	Ya?	Yes?
05:10	Nmaceptunol couple quarts.	I'll take a couple of quarts.
05:13	Kenoq...	But...
05:15	tan olocihte pesqahsuweskil?	what color are the flowers?
05:17	Wapeyuwol.	They are white.
05:18	Wapeyuwol?	They are white?
05:19	Naka pqeyu epahsiw?	And red in the middle?
05:21	Ya.	Yes.
05:22	Knomihtunol tehc pemi-sukiyin yut.	You can see them when you're paddling here.
05:25	Psi-tehc wapeyuwol?	They'll be all white?
05:25	Ya, naka...	Yes, and...
05:26	pqeyuwol kekesk,	they're a little red
05:28	epahsiw.	in the middle.
05:30	Pemi-sukiyin yut, knomihtun.	Paddling here, you see them.
05:32	Well, 'sotuhmuwin	Well, tell me
05:33	yuhtol tan eli-pskomon naka	how you found them and what time
05:36	siqoniw	of the spring
05:37	tan tuciw yut ktoloqiyan.	you come up here.
05:39	Well, an ci yalhutahsi,	Well, when I am guiding,
05:41	yut natam yut oloqiw.	I fish over here.
05:42	Yet ntopinomon tama tolikonul yuhtol.	I notice where these grow.
05:45	Nomihtunol-ote psqahsuwek nihtol, naka, iyey...	I see them when they're in bloom.
05:48	Wapeyikil.	White ones.
05:48	– Wapeyikil.	– White ones.
05:49	Ma-te keq ntitomu tokkiw kisikok.	I don't say anything until they've grown.
05:51	Ya.	Yes.
05:53	Kenoq yut-te...	But here...
05:54	cel nkisi-punomon yet psiksok.	I even put a board over there.
05:56	Knomihtun nit psiksok sehkomik?	Do you see that board standing there?
05:59	Nit nit etoli-macekok nit,	That's where they start to grow from,
06:01	tokkiw yut oloqiw.	over to here.
06:03	Psi-te tett oloqikonul?	They all grow over that way?
06:04	Tett oloqikonul.	They grow over that way.
06:05	'Tenaqotul? – A, 'tenaqotul.	Are there a lot of them? – Ah, there are a lot.
06:08	Waht, nkocicihtun lamiw	Over there I know that in the woods
06:11	piyemkihqonul kat-op yuhtol.	they are bigger than these.
06:13	Kiyasqi-te yuhtol elkihqahk.	These are big enough.
06:14	Aqamapske waht eyikil.	The ones over there are fatter.
06:16	'Tahcuwi tahk wen pihcetu	But one has to walk a way
06:17	luhse kcihkuk.	into the woods.
06:19	U, ya.	Oh, yes.
06:22	Nihtol kahk metsiw.	Those are late.
06:23	Metsiw?	Late?
06:24	Iya. Miyahsiw yuhtol.	Yes. These are early.
06:28	'Sami eli iyey...	Because of...
06:29	Ahsuwikok nit. – Ahsuwikonul?	They cover the ground there. They cover it?
06:32	Tuhpihkuk koso...	In the alders or...
06:33	Tuhpihkuk naka kcihkuk.	In the alders and in the woods.
06:34	U, ya. Ya.	Oh, yes. Yes.
06:36	Ma-te, iyey,	They
06:37	kolotonuwiyil miyahsiw.	don't freeze early.
06:39	Ya. 'Sami,	Yes. Because,
06:40	'sami frost an ci pokossit,	because when frost falls,
06:42	mec-ote, iyey...	it's still...
06:43	Mesq pokossoniw ktahkomikuk.	It hasn't fallen on the ground yet.
06:45	Yut... frost will hit these first.	Here... frost will hit these first.
06:46	Yut pokossin tomk.	It falls here first.
06:48	Nit-tehc toqc yuhtol nehpahtun.	It will kill these right away.
06:50	Iya, but they're still edible.	Yes, but they're still edible.
06:53	Iya.	Yes.
06:55	Ma-te wen 'cuwi-nukcokhomuwonul?	No one will have to mash them?
06:57	Tehpu wen qeni, iyey...	Someone can just...
06:59	Jelly.	Jelly.
07:00	The jelly part.	The jelly part.
07:02	Wolikonul.	They are good.
07:02	Iya.	Yes.
07:07	Akonutomuwin kil toke.	Tell me the story now.
07:09	Pemi-suki kosona yalhutahsi?	Of boating or trapping?
07:11	Aha.	Yes.
07:12	Kosona toqi-te?	Or both?
07:13	Well, toqi-te.	Well, both.
07:19	Anqoc yut pemi-suki...	Sometimes when I'm paddling here...
07:21	Siqoniw.	In the spring.
07:22	...siqoniw, naka	...in the spring, and
07:23	nomihtunol yuhtol, ihil...	I see these...
07:24	pahsuwes...	flower...
07:25	cel ntaluwiwihtomon nit...	I can't even say it.
07:26	Pesqahsuweskil.	Flowers.
07:27	...pesqahsuweskil, cel	...flowers,
07:28	pqeyuwol kekesk...	with a little red on them...
07:31	...nit-tehc	..I will
07:32	npunomon, ihik,	put it in my head
07:33	noniyakonok, iyey, etolikok.	to remember where they grow.
07:36	Toqakuwiw noqcihkomonol-otehc.	In the fall I'll go straight to them.
07:40	Ma-te ntiyali-kotunotuwonol.	I don't have to hunt for them.
07:41	I mean, nkocicihtun...	I mean, I know where...
07:42	...ktiyali-kiluwahtuwonol.	...you don't have to go looking for them.
07:45	Kocicihtunol ehtek.	You know where they are.
07:46	Pesq-ote keciciyuk ehpit	I know of one woman
07:48	mecimiw yuhtol kispastaq.	who used to dry these.
07:50	Oluwisaniyes.	Louise Sockabasin.
07:51	Oluwisaniyes... ya, nwewitahama.	Louise... yes, I remember her.
07:53	Nit-tehc, iyey...	Then right away...
07:55	Kci-sahkatiyil 'tiywal,	she had a big needle,
07:56	naka ahpapossis.	and a string.
07:58	Naka, iyey,	And,
08:00	'saphan nihtol.	she'd stick it through them.
08:02	Tahalu-tehc, iyey...	Just like...
08:03	Cikoniyi.	Apples.
08:04	Talu cikoniyi wen weli-punat.	Like putting away apples.
08:05	Nit-tehna cikoniyi.	Same thing with apples.
08:07	Nihiht kahk, iyey,	But she
08:10	'poqqonasqosa. – 'Poqqonasqosa naka...	peeled those. – Peeled and...
08:12	Naka apsokilucik	And small ones,
08:13	weci-nokosapahsihtit.	so they dry quicker.
08:15	Nit-tehc...	Then...
08:16	Yukk kisi-nastokhulat,	She strung these,
08:19	nit-tehc naci... natewolan, ihik, ewepiw,	then she would go and arrange them up above,
08:21	ihik, wikuwamok.	her house.
08:24	Etoli-wolopotek.	Where it's warm.
08:25	Nit-tehc yukk 'kispahsiniya	Then these would be dry
08:27	tan etuci-nituwit.	for whenever she needed them.
08:29	Nit-tehc naci-tomehlan	Then she would just go
08:31	tan kehsi-nituwit	and cut off what she needed
08:33	naka 'poneqewolan naka	and bring them down and
08:34	'tolaqosan.	cook them.
08:35	Wot Stella	Stella
08:36	'kisi-puna, ihik...	put them in...
08:38	Katkuhkok 'puna.	She put them in a pot.
08:39	Katkuhkok naka 'samaqan.	In a pot with water.
08:40	Ya, naka kekesk sukol.	Yes, and a little sugar.
08:42	Ya.	Yes.
08:43	Nit-tehc, iyey,	Then they would
08:44	mace-menakataqosiniya.	start cooking slowly.
08:48	Naka ulihpuksiniya.	And they tasted good.
08:50	Nil-ona cikoniyik	I do that
08:52	nil ntolehlan toke.	to apples now.
08:53	Ya.	Yes.
08:54	Ntekhulak.	I hang them up.
08:56	Kcuwi.	You have to.
08:57	Pawatomon puniw.	If you want them for winter.
08:59	Ya, naka yali-kotunki...	Yes, and when I go hunting...
09:00	Kispahsicik?	Dried ones?
09:24	An ci punawhotiyek, ihik,	When we set traps
09:26	toqakuwiw,	in the fall,
09:27	nit-tehc nkottoqonultinen yut.	we would sleep here.
09:30	Iyey, lean-tos.	In a lean-to.
09:32	Five nkehsipon.	There would be five of us.
09:33	Yuta?	Right here?
09:33	Nkisihtunen lean-to naka boughs.	We'd make a lean-to and put down boughs.
09:36	Nit-oc elaqiyek.	That's where we would lie down.
09:38	Psi-tehc yut, iyey, flood-uwiw.	This would all flood out
09:40	Ali-punawhotiyek kiwhosuwok.	when we were trapping for muskrats.
09:43	Toqakuwiw?	In the fall?
09:44	Toqakuwiw	Fall
09:45	naka-te siqoniw.	and spring.
09:47	Siqoniw tahk ntahtoli-petapasipon	In the spring we would come
09:49	pqomik.	on the ice.
09:49	Naka oqiton.	And bring along a canoe.
09:52	Nehtaw wen, iyey...	In case someone...
09:54	...cuwahpiyat.	...fell in.
09:54	Nit honeycomb.	That honeycomb (ice).
09:58	Suwhewik yut kuckuwacqiptun?	You'd drag the sled up here?
09:59	Ya. Suwhewik underneath.	Yes. A sled underneath.
10:06	Naka eci-mocalokittiyemahtek	And the lean-to would stink
10:07	lean-to in the morning wen	so bad in the morning
10:08	kisi-piktit, iyey,	when someone had farted
10:09	kis kisotomek beans.	from our having eaten beans.
10:12	Keq iyahp!	Wouldn't you know it!
10:14	Skicin epit?	Where an Indian sits?
10:16	Skicinuwey.	The way of the Indian.
10:17	Keq 'toliwihtomoniyal nihtol?	What do they call those?
10:20	Melihkikonewikil.	The strong ones.
10:23	Masqositol.	Beans.
10:24	Aha.	Yes.