I Could Paddle All Day Long: Axe-Handles and Baseball Bats

Start Time	Passamaquoddy-Maliseet	English
00:16	Nqenoss sakhiyat yut over the weekend.	My grandson showed up over the weekend.
00:20	Itom, Oh my God, Gramp,	He said, Oh my God, Gramp,
00:21	where'd you get that axe-handle?	where'd you get that axe-handle?
00:22	I said, I made it.	I said, I made it.
00:24	He said, Oh God, that's a good one.	He said, Oh God, that's a good one.
00:29	Nil-ona wehqapi-te nituwi ntolihtunol.	I make them as I need them.
00:34	Ya. 'Sami mecimi nit	Yes. Because one would always
00:35	peci-tomtestaq yuhtol	be breaking them
00:37	wen kcihkuk, cuwi wen	in the woods, so one would have to use
00:39	kekesk wen 'tuwehkan, iyey, kcihkuk.	a little bit (of something) in the woods.
00:43	Ktolahqostun pesqon.	You fashion one.
00:47	Naka, iya,	And
00:50	hornbeam. Sakoleyu.	hornbeam. It's hard.
00:53	Sakoleyu not.	That's a hard wood.
00:55	I think pesq liku yet sitomok.	I think there's one growing by the shore.
00:57	Ya.	Yes.
00:59	Mec-al tutaqsit kis.	It's about this big around already.
01:01	Yet ehta-ona ihik U Roadok iyuwok	Up there on the U Road
01:04	peskuwok,	there are some,
01:05	nit-al 'tutaqsiniya.	they're about this big around.
01:08	Nit ehta nopal pskuhuk pesq	I wish I could find one nice and big
01:10	welaqsit.	like that.
01:15	Nkotuwihtun pesqon, iyey,	I'm going to make
01:18	petstik.	a baseball bat.
01:21	Well, cipotu-te-na wot ntuwehkaha.	Well, maybe I would use this one, too.
01:24	'Sami neke ntat pesqon kisihtaq.	Because my dad made one.
01:27	Naka trademark 'kisi-punomon: Ale.	And he put a trademark on it: "Ale."
01:31	Mam-ote not ma	In the end,
01:32	'kiseltomuwawoniya 'tuwehkan.	they didn't allow him to use it.
01:36	Naci-epeskomat tama,	When he went to play ball somewhere,
01:39	'cekkomuwihtuwaniya:	they checked his bat:
01:40	You can't do that here,	You can't do that here,
01:43	home-made bat!	[you can't use] a home-made bat!