I Speak To Them In Our Language

Start Time	Peskotomuhkati-Wolastoqey	English
00:01	Naka, iyey,	And
00:03	I think tuciw nil	I think I was nine years old
00:05	etuceyiyan nine years old	when I started to work,
00:08	ntoluhk, 'sami, iya, Sutihk nit-tehc, iyey, ntahcuwyukun	because Susie would hire me
00:12	naci-kospahtahsin Saturday,	to wash floors on Saturdays,
00:15	naka nit-tehc nmilkun ten cents.	and she would pay me ten cents.
00:19	Eli, iyey, tehpu eli-kospahtasi	Just for washing the floor,
00:23	naka wisoki-wolinaqahk,	and if I did a really good job,
00:24	nit-tehc apc, ihil,	she would give me
00:27	nickel nmilkun.	another nickel.
00:30	Nil-lu wawonol.	With me it was eggs.
00:31	Wawonol?	Eggs?
00:32	Aha.	Yes.
00:32	U! Kwewitahat... U!	Oh! Do you remember... Oh!
00:33	Uncle Benny natankuwan wawonol.	I went to Uncle Benny's to sell eggs.
00:37	Elinaqsit kilun neket ducks.	We used to have a lot of ducks.
00:39	Mm-hmm.	Mm-hmm.
00:40	Naka, iyey, eci wot, iya, ntatat	And so my father is always doing
00:47	'tawi-amalhessit,	something.
00:49	nahahte weci-peciyat from, ihik, Army,	He had just come home from the Army,
00:52	on every morning	and every morning
00:53	mesq natokehkimkewan,	before I went to school
00:54	ntolahkuhukun.	he cooked breakfast for me.
00:56	Well, nil mecimiw ma nmiciwonol	Well, I never used to eat
00:59	ducks' eggs.	duck eggs.
01:01	Ntiyahpon ncipokitahatomonol.	I told him I couldn't stand the thought of them.
01:03	So nkisahkuhukun.	So, he cooked breakfast.
01:08	Ntiyahpon, "Tat, eci yuhtol	I said, "Dad, these eggs
01:09	wolihpukahk wawonol."	taste really good."
01:12	Itom, "Duck eggs."	He said, "Duck eggs."
01:20	Itom, "Ma-te knahtaleyiw."	He said, "You're not such a picky eater."
01:22	Tahalu not, iya,	Just like that hen,
01:24	remember not ehem?	do you remember?
01:27	That chased you?	That chased you?
01:28	Mm-hmm.	Mm-hmm.
01:30	Yali-nokalot.	You were afraid of her.
01:33	Iya, elinaqsit ducks	Yes, we had a lot of ducks,
01:34	naka psi-tehc 'talewotuniyal, ihil, wawonol.	and they laid their eggs everywhere.
01:37	Aha.	Yes.
01:38	On-oc kil knatankuwehtun.	Then you would go sell them.
01:40	Natankuwehtun weci-kisonum	I sold them so I
01:42	penny candy.	could buy penny candy.
01:43	Kat-olu,	That's right,
01:45	iya.	yes.
01:47	Mecimiw, iyey, ntoluhkewa-ona, iya,	And I used to work for
01:51	Auntie Frensis.	Auntie Frances.
01:53	U, eci-tehc nihtol wikinom sukolisol,	Oh, I would always be looking at the candy,
01:56	but tan ci yaka kisapenkuwit	but I had to finish my work
01:58	nit-tehc nokka-wekihtun nmamim.	before I could spend all my money.
02:03	I know it,	I know it,
02:04	psi-te keq mecimiw eci-'komasawotik.	back then everything was so cheap.
02:07	I know it.	I know it.
02:09	Which I think, iyey, nit knicannuk	Which I think is why our children
02:13	eci-ksitahatomuhtit Sipayik.	love Pleasant Point so much.
02:15	Wot kete, iya,	Like her,
02:18	psi-te wen koti-apaciye	they want to come back
02:20	kosona wen ma koti-macehew.	or they don't want to leave.
02:22	Kat-olu.	That's right.
02:22	Nikki ma-te koti-macehew.	Nikki doesn't want to leave.
02:24	Nama.	No.
02:25	Eci-ksitahatok Sipayik.	She loves Pleasant Point.
02:30	Eci-tehc, iyey, psi-te wen apaciye,	They all want to come back,
02:34	'sami mecimi-te nit eci-happiwultihiq.	because we are always happy there.
02:40	Mm-hmm.	Mm-hmm.
02:41	Iya.	Yes.
02:42	Yukk-ona wasisok, iya,	And these children,
02:44	nil nicanok,	my children,
02:45	eci-ksitahatomuhtit Sipayik.	also love Pleasant Point.
02:47	Naka eli-skicinuwuhtihtit.	And because they are native people.
02:49	Mm-hmm,	Mm-hmm,
02:49	psi-te wen macehe, on apc...	everyone leaves and then...
02:52	Psi-te wen macehe...	They all leave...
02:53	...wen 'tapaciyan.	...they come back.
02:53	...apc wen 'tapaciyan.	...then they come back again.
02:54	Iya.	Yes.
02:55	'Sami I think	Because I think
02:56	kwewitahatomonen eci, iyey,	we remember
02:59	eci-wolomolsultihiq tan ci nit wen ihit.	how good we felt to be here.
03:02	Iya, weckuwi-macekultihiq.	Yes, when we were growing up.
03:04	- Weckuwi-macekultihiq, iya.	Yes, when we were growing up.
03:08	Ma-te tokec wen nonuwaw,	Now I don't know anyone,
03:09	elinaqsit.	there are so many people here.
03:10	Nil-ona ma-te wen nonuwaw.	I don't know anyone either.
03:11	Sameluk, ma-te nonuwawiyik	There are so many,
03:12	wasisok tokec.	I don't know the children now.
03:13	Kiluwaw kenuk knonuwawak	But you know people
03:15	'sami, iyey, kiluwaw kwikiniya.	here because you live here.
03:16	Naka nit nil sipkiw ntotoluhkan;	And I was working here for a long time,
03:17	ma-te nonuwawiyik wasisok.	but I don't know the children.
03:19	Kat-olu.	That's right.
03:20	Eci-kil sipkoluhkiyin.	You worked here for a long time.
03:21	Sipkoluhki at the Health Center.	I worked for a long time at the Health Center,
03:23	Ma-te nonuwawiyik wasisok	and I don't know the young children,
03:25	pilikulticik. Ma nonuwawiyik.	the new ones. I don't know them.
03:28	Nil-ona kotama.	No, I don't either.
03:31	Ntahcuwihc-otehc wen qecimula.	I always have to ask someone.
03:33	Iya, wen nihtol nicanol?	Yes, who's child is that?
03:33	Tama 'tapeksu, aha.	Who her relatives are, yes.
03:35	Nit-tehc ktoqecimulan wasisok.	Then you ask the children.
03:37	Ntiyahpon wot pesq, "Tama kutapeks?"	I asked this one child, "Who are your relatives?"
03:41	You know, tehpu ntolapomoq.	You know, she just looked at me.
03:42	Iya.	Yes.
03:43	Ma nostaku.	She didn't understand me.
03:44	Ma-te wen skicinuwatuwew anymore.	No one speaks our language anymore.
03:46	Ma-te wen skicinuwatuwew.	They don't speak our language.
03:47	Nama.	No.
03:48	Nit weci-wolessik eli kilun knicansisok...	That's why it's good for our children...
03:50	Kat-olu.	That's right.
03:51	...etoli, iyey...	...to be...
03:52	...etolokehkimut.	...taught.
03:53	Kat-olu.	That's right.
03:53	Iya.	Yes.
03:55	Well, nil-ona ma nkisokehkimawiyik	Well, I didn't teach my children
03:56	nicanok uskicinuwatuwahtiniya.	to speak our language, either.
03:59	Nil-ona kotama.	I didn't either.
04:00	Weckuwi-macekultihtit 'sami poliw nwik.	Because when they were growing up, I lived away.
04:03	Iya.	Yes.
04:03	Naka, iyey, ikolisoman ntulomenim.	And my husband is a white man.
04:07	So tehpukc ntikolisomanatu.	So, all we spoke was English.
04:09	Iya.	Yes.
04:11	So tehpukc ntikolisomanatu.	And now children tell me,
04:13	"Keq mehsi skat kehkimiwon?"	"Why didn't you teach me?"
04:15	So totolokehkimsultuwok.	So, they are teaching themselves now.
04:17	Mm-hmm.	Mm-hmm.
04:19	Tokec tan ci	Now when I
04:20	lewestuwamuk Tepit,	talk to David,
04:22	nit-tehc nuskicinuwi-kolulan.	I will speak in Passamaquoddy.
04:25	Tan ci, iyey, answering machine sakhiyak,	When his answering machine comes on,
04:28	nit-tehc-ona nuskicinuwatuwan,	I speak in Passamaquoddy,
04:30	"Tama kil ktiyalokitti?	"Where in heck are you?
04:32	Pihce ktali-kiluwuhulon."	I've been looking for you for a long time."
04:36	Wasisok tokec.	Children nowadays.
04:38	Kenuk, I think, yuktok ktutemonuk wicuhketomoniya,	But I think these white friends of ours
04:44	etoli-koti-ksihkahak	are helping our language
04:47	ktolatuwewakonon.	that is being lost.
04:48	Ma tahk nil nkisokitomuwon.	But I can't read it.
04:50	Nil-ona kotama.	I can't either.
04:51	Nil ma nkisokitomuwon;	I don't know how to read it;
04:52	tehpu nihtawi-skicinuwatu.	I just know how to speak it.
04:54	- Tehpu nihtawi-skicinuwatu.	- I just know how to speak it.
04:55	Qenuk, well,	But, well,
04:56	nil-ona ma ntokehkimawon wasisok,	I didn't teach my children either,
04:57	but every now and then	but every now and then
04:59	yut eyultihtit-oc, iyey,	I will speak to the ones
05:01	ntiyak,nuskicinuwi-kolulak.	who are here in our language.
05:04	Nuskicinuwi-kolulak, nit-te-na nil.	I speak to them in our language, too.
05:06	Nuskicinuwi-kolulak.	I speak to them in our language.
05:08	Nil-te-na nican.	I do that with my child.
05:09	Iya.	Yes.
05:10	Naka tan ci wen asitemit naka	And when they answer me
05:13	ntolewestuwamkun, skicinuwi-kolulkun,	in our language,
05:15	eci-tehc woltaqahk.	it sounds really good to me.
05:16	Kat-olu.	That's right.
05:16	Woltaqot, kat-olu.	It sounds good; that's right.
05:20	Nit-ona nil qecimulit nican keq mehsi-skat, iyey,	My child asked me why I didn't...
05:24	nit mecimi, iyey, elokehkimit.	the way I had been taught.
05:27	Ma-te.	I didn't.
05:28	Kat-olu, ma-te wen 'topitahatomuwon.	That's right; we didn't think about it then.
05:30	Ma-te wen 'topitahatomuwon	We didn't think about it
05:31	'sami tama piluwey.	because we didn't live here.
05:32	Tama piluwey kwik, kat-olu.	You lived somewhere else; that's right.
05:35	Nit-te... Well,	Well,
05:36	nil kahk-te, iyey,	Well,
05:37	ma nunitahasiwon,	you don't forget,
05:38	'sami ma wen 'kisi-wonitahasiwon.	because you can't forget it.
05:42	Kenuk, iyey, anqoc...	But then sometimes...
05:44	Kancoqi-skicinuwey wen elewestaq,	When someone speaks the old Passamaquoddy,
05:46	ma-te nutomuwon.	I don't understand it.
05:47	Ntama.	No.
05:48	Puskoci-skicinuwey	Harvey was the only one
05:49	Harvey tehpu kecicihtaq.	who knew the old Passamaquoddy.
05:51	Kat-olu.	That's right.
05:51	Nil tehpu kecicihtu everyday stuff tokec.	Now I just know the everyday stuff.
05:53	Kat-olu.	That's right.
05:54	Elewestuhtihiq.	The way we talk.
05:55	Iya, iya.	Yes, yes.
05:57	Mecimiw, iyey, ntotolakonutomakunen.	He used to tell us stories.
06:01	Kwewitahama, iya, Noel Socoby?	Do you remember Noel Socoby?
06:04	Aha.	Yes.
06:05	On-oc ntakonutomakunen	He would tell us stories
06:07	nilun wasisok, iyey, pittokil, ihil, latuwe...	using these long ...
06:16	Latuwewakonol.	Words.
06:17	- Latuwewakonol.	- Words.
06:19	Itom, iyey, "Kocicihtun tan	He said, "Do you know
06:21	'toliwihtomon wen, iyey, rice?"	how to say 'rice'?"
06:24	Ntiyahpon, "On kal."	I said, "I don't know."
06:26	Itom, "Aptinomuhtineweyal."	He said it was aptinomuhtineweyal.
06:28	Ntiyahpon, "Cokahk, qentokahk nit!"	I said, "Wow, that's a long word!"
06:34	Itom naka, iyey, keqsey cel piluwey.	Then he told us some other word.
06:37	Apc nkisakonutomakun.	Then he told us stories.
06:38	But mecimi-te nit nwewitahatomon,	But I always remember the long word
06:40	aptinomuhtineweyal.	for rice.
06:41	Iya.	Yes.
06:42	Nit eliwihtasik nihtol.	That is the word for it.