I Could Paddle All Day Long: Canoes

Start Time	Passamaquoddy-Maliseet	English
00:13	Tan tuciw wen 'totoli...	Sometimes one is cutting it...
00:16	'totolosomon... 'kissomon-ote wen masq...	one can cut birchbark...
00:23	Nihtol, ihil,	Those pieces of
00:26	masqiyil anqoc,	birchbark sometimes,
00:28	kosona, iyey, bark.	or bark.
00:34	Mecimiw nit kceyawehkaniya masqiyil.	They used to use a lot of birchbark.
00:40	Nit-tehp-ona nil toke.	That's what I'd do now.
00:43	Dad nokka-milkunol	Dad gave me everything that I use
00:44	ewehki keqsey kotuwihtuwan;	for what I'm going to make;
00:47	psi-te nkisihtakun.	he made all of it for me.
00:52	Tehpu toke ntahcuwi...	Now all I have to do is...
00:57	Knaci-masqehk.	...go get birchbark.
00:58	Naci-masqehk.	I go get birchbark.
01:01	Waht pihcetu sehtayiw	Way back in the woods
01:03	kcihkuk ntoli-pskuwa ...	I found a ...
01:06	Ntiyahpon Lula	I told Lola
01:09	kisihtuwuk	that I'd make
01:13	frame,	a frame for him,
01:14	on yaka nit kotunolanen,	and then we'd gather it,
01:16	on yaka kpunomonen nit, ihik,	and then we'd put it in place
01:18	weci-kisihtu oqiton.	so I could make a canoe.
01:20	Npehki-te ntiywanennuk wikpiyik	We already had all the black ash
01:23	naka yuhtol, ihil,	and these,
01:27	kawatoqihil, pemtoktekil, ihik,	spruce strips,
01:30	lamiw.	lying lengthwise inside.
01:31	Naka wen, iyey,	And one would
01:34	'tepahsonomon.	split them in half.
01:40	Nil-ona ntotoli-wolehtun,	I am fixing up an
01:43	iyey, old Grand-Laker.	old Grand-Laker.
01:45	Pihce 'tihinehpon, iya...	A long time ago Matthew had it...
01:47	tan-al Matthew wetonok.	I don't know where he'd gotten it from.
01:52	Waht wiku Huntley,	He lived up there on Huntley Brook
01:54	about thirty years ago.	about thirty years ago...
01:57	Nit mace-wikihtit nekomaw,	When they first lived there,
02:01	tan-al wetonoks old canoe.	he must have gotten that old canoe somewhere.
02:06	On one day peciyay...	And one day when I came there...
02:10	'Sami nkisi-mehtaqosomakun	Because somebody
02:12	nil wen ntul waht	burned up my boat,
02:13	Nisutqosk,	at Two Brooks,
02:16	piley eyyanpon.	the new one I had.
02:21	Mam-ote nkociciyak.	I finally found out who they were.
02:24	On, iyey,	And so,
02:25	ntiyan, cu-oc nkoti-wolehtun,	I told him that I would fix it;
02:28	nkoti-wolehtun nit.	I would fix it.
02:33	Ntiyahpon, iyey,	I told him
02:37	I'd give him fifteen dollars.	I'd give him fifteen dollars.
02:39	Oh, no, aqamok nit petawotu.	Oh, no, it's worth more than that.
02:42	Nit-te toli-matolukiye.	And it was wobbly.
02:45	Nil-oc-ote nulehtun.	I would fix it.
02:47	One day komotu sakhi-pisiye car,	One day all of a sudden in drives a car,
02:49	with that old canoe.	with that old canoe.
02:51	Ntiyahpon, put it right down there.	I said, put it right down there.
02:54	Fifteen dollars.	Fifteen dollars.
02:57	And, 'peciyan ntatat.	And my dad came.
03:01	Itom, tan ktolehtun?	He said, What will you do with it?
03:03	Tan koti-wolehtun?	How are you going to fix it?
03:05	Naci-kotunolane kakskus.	Let's go cut down a cedar.
03:07	Nmacahanen Pitok.	We went to the Pit.
03:10	Nkisi-kotunolanen kakskus,	We cut down a cedar,
03:12	nit-al 'tutaqsin.	about this big around.
03:14	Nmacephanen nikonuk.	We took it to my house.
03:16	Nkisikhan,	I sawed it,
03:20	apc nkisikhan,	then I sawed it again,
03:21	on nekom, iyey, kissan ribs.	and he cut the ribs.
03:25	Naka nkisikonanen,	And we bent them,
03:29	naka nkisi	and I made
03:32	gunwales oliyan.	the gunwales.
03:36	Nkisi-mawoskenomonen.	We put it together.
03:39	'Kisi-punan ribs,	He put in the ribs,
03:41	planking.	the planking.
03:46	Mec-al	I've been using
03:49	twenty-five years nit ntaluwehkan. U, wow.	that canoe for about twenty-five years.