How We Got Our Land Back: It Hasn't Been Written From an Indian's Point of View

Start Time	Passamaquoddy-Maliseet	English
00:16	Ma-te-na tama wikhasiw	It hasn't been written anywhere
00:18	skicin eli-nomihtaq–	from an Indian point of view–
00:20	tahaluhp psiw yut—tehpu	like all this—
00:22	ewikhasik kis ikolisoman eli-nomihtaq	just what the white man sees.
00:25	Yet kete wikhikonol	For example,
00:27	kisuwikhasuwol. Iya,	there have been books written.
00:29	keq not liwisu?	What's his name?
00:32	’Kisihtun book.	He wrote a book.
00:34	Mecimiw legislature iyu.	He used to be in the legislature.
00:36	Neil Rolde, olu.	It was Neil Rolde.
00:39	Kat-olu neket…	Of course, at that time…
00:40	Kisuwikhok nit, iyey, land claims.	He wrote about the land claims.
00:43	Nekom tehpu nit eli-nomihtaq,	That was just how he saw it,
00:46	ma kahk kilun.	not us.
00:47	Ma-te, iyey,	No, it was
00:49	ma-te tama skicin tan-op	nothing about what the Indian
00:52	eli-pawatok kosona eli-nomihtaq,	would want or see, because
00:53	'sami kilun tehpu	what we wanted was
00:55	pawatomoqpon ewecitu.	what we had had before.
00:57	Tehpu pawatomoqpon	We wanted what was
00:59	kisi-wihqonasik yut, ihik, Township,	taken here at Township,
01:01	nit-olu Strip oloqiw, naka	over by the Strip, and
01:04	nit, iyey, GP-ona kisi-wihqonok;	what GP took;
01:06	well, it wasn't GP,	well, it wasn't GP,
01:07	it was keq, St. Croix Paper.	it was, what? St. Croix Paper.
01:09	Nit tehpu,	That was all,
01:11	tehpu nit apaci…	that was all…
01:12	I think kil neket…	I think at that time you…
01:14	Nit tehpu etoli-apaci-wihkutomeq.	That was all you were asking back.
01:17	On tokec-op tpost-…	And now, if they had
01:19	tpostakiyek neke,	listened to us at that time,
01:21	nit-tehp…	that would…
01:22	Alienated lots.	Alienated lots.
01:22	Aha. Iya.	Yes. Ya.
01:24	Ma-te nit, iyey,	It wasn't…
01:26	ma nit ktanaqotu, ma tahk	it wasn't much,
01:28	pecitahasultiwiyik, 'sami	but they didn't think much of it,
01:29	ikolisoman	because
01:30	ma-te 'kihcitomitahatomuwon neket	at that time white people didn't value
01:34	kilun skicinuwok eli-nomihtuwoq.	what we as Indians saw.
01:36	So ktomhannuk-ote,	So we defeated them,
01:39	nekomaw-ote, iyey, tahalu, in their own court.	and in their own court.
01:42	Ma-te kihcitomitahtomkuwinnuk;	They didn't think much of us;
01:44	litahasultuwok	they thought
01:45	ma-te kilun keq kocicihtuhpon.	we didn't know anything.
01:47	Mec-ote ktenaqsuwok nit elitahasultihtit.	A lot of them still think that way.