If You Can't Read You Get Beaten

Start Time	Peskotomuhkati-Wolastoqey	English
00:02	Nit-ona... kenuk mecimiw...	And when... but I used to...
00:05	ntahqeltomon.	I hated doing it.
00:07	Nil ma nkisehtakewon.	They couldn't make me.
00:10	Nkihtmatomon naci-witokehkimken.	I really didn't like going to school,
00:15	Cel ste ntolitahas wen	And I kind of thought someone will
00:18	cu nmalikimoq ckuwi-aluwokisiyan.	make fun of me if it turns out I can't read.
00:21	A, ntahcuwi... I think, nil ntapenk.	Ah, I have to... I think I have to pay.
00:25	Coqahk-al.	Of course.
00:29	Nila.	Me.
00:31	Kamahcin kehsinsk.	Sixteen.
00:32	Nit cel-ote nahaht etoli-skuhutomek nahaht,	And about what we were talking about
00:40	Naka wen naci-witokehkiman.	And then you go to school.
00:41	Ma wen 'sotomu.	No one understands.
00:43	Iya.	That's right.
00:44	Naka 'tahcuwi wen okisin.	And you have to read.
00:45	Mm-hmm.	Mm-hmm.
00:46	Iya.	Yes.
00:47	Skat wen okisihq,	If you can't read,
00:48	on wen matonan.	you get hit.
00:49	Puwekihpulan.	They shake you.
00:50	Nit ehta.	That, too.
00:51	Nusami ehta aqtaqs	I sounded too
00:52	neke ikolisomanatuwi,	awkward speaking English,
00:54	ma-te nkisehtakewon, iyey, natokisin.	so they didn't make me go read.
00:58	Iya.	Yes.
00:59	Kenuk nkisi-wihqehtun wikhikon	But I took the book and read.
01:01	naka ntokisin. Nokkakitomon-ote,	I read the whole thing.
01:03	iyey, nit. Ma tahk nkisewestu.	But I couldn't talk.
01:09	Tepot ntaqtaqsin	So I still sounded awkward
01:11	'somakonossuwihkuk eliyay.	when I went into the service.
01:13	Coqahk-al, ma nit wen, iyey,	Of course,
01:15	kilun wen ikolisomanatuwew.	none of us could speak English.
01:17	Naka sehta-punan wen te-na, iyey, skat kisi...	And you were put back a grade if you
01:21	woli-kisi-ikolisomanatuwehq.	couldn't speak English well.
01:23	Skat ikolisomanatuwewon.	If you couldn't speak English.
01:24	Iya, iya.	Yes, yes.
01:27	Tan op-al wen 'toli-nihpatomon wen	How would anyone feel like going to
01:29	natokehkiman wen totoli-ktomakiyut?	school if they were always abused?
01:31	Iya, I think weckuwi-macekultiyoq	I think that when we were growing up,
01:34	wen natokehkimut, I think,	and you went to school,
01:35	te kotomakiyukepon.	I think, we really were abused.