I Could Paddle All Day Long: Heartwood and Sapwood

Start Time	Passamaquoddy-Maliseet	English
00:30	Saku yut	So,
00:32	last fall, hunting season,	last fall, during hunting season,
00:34	my grandkids come up.	my grandkids came up.
00:37	Saku ntiyan, maceptuwin yukt waht	So, I told them to go get these for me
00:39	naka naciksomakenok.	and have them cut for me.
00:43	'Sami macephaniya,	Because they went
00:45	nkisiksomakun nihiht, psi-te.	and got them and sawed them for me, all of them.
00:47	Wolikuwok.	They look good.
00:49	Kenuk tahk yukk, moshun-ote elkihqahk.	But these, the heartwood is big.
00:56	Nit weci yut epahsiw, iyey,	That's why half of this is that
01:01	olocihtek.	color.
01:03	Wot kahk skat eliwiyut	Isn't this what's called
01:04	mekoseweyit akomahq?	"dark" white ash?
01:05	Nama... I don't know.	No... well, I don't know.
01:07	Coke.	Here, let me see.
01:12	'Sami mekoseweyit akomahq,	Because "dark" white ash has
01:14	ktanaqot yut elocihtek.	a lot of this color.
01:17	Kesi-wapeyik, nemq-ote wen nomihtun.	When it's really white, one hardly sees this.
01:23	Yukt ehta peskuhuk... nkisihtun nit, iyey,	Some of these... I made...
01:28	psi-te wapeyuwol 'tahakonol,	all-white paddles,
01:31	nit outside ones.	using the outer wood.
01:34	Wot nit, iyey, qihiw-ote moshunok...	This one is near the heartwood...
01:37	Wot nit qihiw-ote moshunok, yuta, iya.	Yes, this is near the heartwood.
01:41	Kenuk cu wolikonul.	But anyway, they're good-looking.
01:44	Kenuk psi-te wen nemihtaq 'tahakonol,	But everyone who sees the paddles,
01:47	tan yut kekesk eli-ihik brown,	how there's a little brown in them,
01:49	nit-te wikinomoniya.	they like the way they look.
01:51	Piltuwinaqot, I guess.	It's different from what they're used to, I guess.
01:57	Yut kete kisihtu,	When I made this one, for example,
02:03	ma-te nomihtuwon yut outside.	I didn't see this outer part.
02:05	Yut nit psuhuney.	This is heartwood.
02:09	'Kisi nit wen psonehtun.	One can fill it (hole in the wood).
02:11	Nil yut ketuwuwehki, anyway.	I'm going to use this one myself, anyway.
02:14	Nit-ona nil elessik anqoc,	That happens to me sometimes,
02:15	nil-oc ewehki nit elikok.	and I use that kind.
02:22	'Sami ma-te nit nmoskomuwon,	Because I didn't find it until
02:23	cel, iyey, kisi-ihi.	I'd already done it.
02:25	Kisi, iyey, mace wen emehkehtaq, iyey...	When one has started to take it down...
02:30	Ipa, yut kete moshun kehsok eyik,	Look, for example, there is so much heartwood,
02:33	epahsiw, yet-ona.	in the middle, and in that one.
02:37	Woli-te epahsiw...	Right down the middle...
02:39	Saku wen yut kisihtuwuk waht 'kisi, iyey,	So, the person I was making this for
02:43	'kisi-ihin naka [...] epahsiw, yut-ona.	had it and [...] in the middle, here too.
02:55	Naka peskuhuk, iyey,	And some people
02:58	'pawatomoniya kinahqahk-ote, iyey,	want a thick
03:02	handle.	handle.
03:04	Nulehtun apsaqsossok, 'sami, iyey,	I like to use a thin one,
03:07	woli eluwe-te tett oloqatokessu.	because it kind of bends nicely like that.
03:13	Ipa... these are five-eighths.	And these are five-eighths.
03:14	kenuk wolikonul-al.	but they're beautiful, I guess.
03:19	I just got this one naka that one.	I just got this one and that one.
03:23	Wolapitehe.	It has a good grain.
03:27	Ipa, wot-ona kekesk	Look, this piece is a little bit
03:28	Anqoc welikok wen wothakon	Sometimes a person
03:31	accossu;	colored, too;
03:40	naka ma nihtawi-sukiwon wen.	has a beautiful paddle and doesn't know how to paddle.
03:42	I know it!	I know it!