The Little People

Start Time	Passamaquoddy-Maliseet	English
00:13	Nehe, akonutomuwine.	Okay, now tell us a story.
00:15	Kat-olu.	Of course.
00:16	Wonakomehsisok.	The little people.
00:18	Wot ehta woli-nonuwat.	This fellow here knows them well.
00:20	Kuli-nonuwak wonakomehsisok?	Do you know them well?
00:23	Nama. Tehpu eli-akonutomaki.	No. Just from being told stories.
00:27	Nit-ona nil.	Same with me.
00:28	Iya.	Yeah.
00:31	'Tali-nomiyawa neket, kosona tan?	They used to see them around long ago, or isn't that so?
00:35	Aha. Wonakomehsisok naka ihik...	Yes. The little people and the...
00:39	Ma-te yut wen oliyew nipayiw.	No one comes here at night.
00:42	Cuwi wen kinapiyiw.	You have to be brave.
00:47	Iya, iya, ma wen yaliyew yut nipayiw.	Yes, yes. No one goes around at night.
00:49	Solahkiw nikk kutomeyuwak wonakomehsuwok.	You might bother those little people.
00:52	Kenuk, kenuk	But, but
00:53	psi yaq keqsey woli-tpinomoniya.	they watch everything closely.
00:56	Cipotuk.	Maybe so.
00:57	Nit elakonutomaki,	That's what I was told,
00:59	uli-tpinomoniya psi keqsey,	that the
01:02	naka ktahcuwi-wolluhk.	and you have to be on your best
01:05	Skat wolluhkewon on-oc iyey cu	behavior. If you don't,
01:09	keq ktolelomokuk. Mecimiw nit yuhuki.	then something will happen to you. That's what I was always told.
01:15	Well, anqoc-ona keqsey wen yaha	Well, sometimes you were told things
01:17	weci wen woli-pilsqehsisuwit.	just so you'd be a good girl.
01:19	Weci wen ciksotok; aha, nit kahk.	So you'd listen; yes, that's so.
01:24	Weci wen ciksotok.	So you'd listen.
01:29	Wonakomehsis,	There's "wonakomehsis,"
01:30	naka kotokik evil spirits	and what are those
01:32	keq nikk liwiyak?	other evil spirits called?
01:33	On kal.	I don't know.
01:34	Tamtamsisok?	Dwarves?
01:35	Nama.	No.
01:37	Mihkomuwehsuwok.	It's "mihkomuwehsuwok."
01:39	Niktok, mihkomuwehsuwok, iya.	Those are the ones, mihkomuwehsuwok.
01:41	Nomoliqaha pesq.	I saw one of those darn little things.
01:42	Qin-ote?	Really?
01:44	Naka nkisi-cikawkuwa	And I disobeyed my mother,
01:46	nikuwoss on nomiyan, iya.	and I saw him, yeah.
01:52	Yet mecimiw wikiyan	When I lived over there on the shore,
01:56	i... eci wikuwaci-yaliyay,	gee, I loved to go around,
01:57	nwikuwaci-nutaha.	I loved to go out.
01:59	Eh, kis Kromp kisi-kuhumopeluwiw.	Well, Kromp had already rung the curfew bell.
02:03	Cuwi psi-wen macehe.	Everyone had to go
02:06	Ntiyahpon nmamam, ntiyahpon,	I said to my mother, I told her,
02:08	"Ntahcuwi nil keq olluhk	"I have to do something,
02:10	ntahcuwi-nacipha nuhkomoss yet	I have to go get my grandmother
02:12	ihik 'sistalomok, ihik Rose Burnsok."	at her sister's, at Rose Burns' house."
02:15	Ntahcuwi-nacipha.	I had to go get her.
02:16	Solahkiw wen utomeyuwal.	Someone might bother her.
02:18	Itom, "Madonna, mus kil nutahahkoc."	My mother said, "Madonna, don't you go out.
02:21	Itom, "Cu knomiya wen nutahayin."	If you go out, you'll see someone."
02:24	Ntiyahpon, "Well, mehehta	I told her, "Well,
02:26	npuwatomuwon nuhkomoss	I just don't want my grandmother
02:27	wenil nomiyan."	to see anyone scary."
02:30	Nmacehtestikan nit-olu	I started walking by
02:32	mecimiw wikitpon iya Snow, Bertha Snow.	where Bertha Snow used to live.
02:36	Mecimiw nit corner, Bertha Snow	She used to live at that corner,
02:39	nit wikit naka, iya, John Stanliw.	with John Stanley.
02:44	Mecimiw nit little house,	There used to be that little house,
02:46	cel 'tihiniya little fence.	and they had a little fence.
02:48	Ma kwewitahatomuwon?	Don't you remember?
02:50	Mecimiw Helen wikitpon?	Where Helen used to live?
02:51	Nit-te Helen yut oloqiw wiku,	Helen lived on this side,
02:53	nit-te John Stanley	and then John Stanley
02:55	naka Bertha Snow.	and Bertha Snow.
02:56	Cel kekesk...	And a little bit...
02:57	Kekesk sehtahte. I...	It was set back a little bit.
02:59	elomihtestiki nikonuk	Gee, as I walked away from our house
03:01	-- ah, nwikuwaci-nutaha --	-- ah, I loved to go out --
03:03	elomihtestiki... ntolitahasin wen not?	as I walked along... I thought, who's that?
03:07	Hey, nit-te weci-wesuwalokittiyeqasqi	Hey, I ran like hell right back home
03:11	nemaht. Woli-te neqotoqq kuhutik.	from there. I jumped right under the bed.
03:14	Itom nmamam,	My mother said,
03:16	"Tan kil ktesalokittiyan?"	"What the hell is the matter with you?"
03:18	"Nomiya wen, nomiya wen!"	"I saw someone! I saw someone!"
03:21	Itom, "Well, ktiyuluhpon	She said, "Well, I told you
03:22	mus nutahahkoc.	not to go out.
03:23	Ma tahk iyey koti-ciksotuwiw,	You didn't want to listen to me,
03:25	yali-konskostomon."	you're so disobedient."
03:28	I'll tell you, kisessu!	I'll tell you, that works!
03:31	Mecimiw ntakonutomakunehpon	My grandmother used to tell me
03:32	nuhkomoss sqewtomuhs kosona iya pihtenskosit.	about the spirit-woman or the tall man.
03:37	Meste kil knutomuwon pihtenskosit?	Haven't you heard of the tall man?
03:39	Cu, cu	Oh yes, oh yes.
03:41	Kosona iya nisekopisit.	Or the two-sheeted ghost.
03:43	Nihtawi iyey, nihtawi-te...	He knew how to... how to...
03:45	Milihtahasultuwok.	They thought of all kinds of things to do.
03:46	Ksekpawoloq.	They frightened you.
03:47	Iya?	They did?
03:48	Nilun iya ktankolum iya Cacpicuns... Yet olu olomi-naci-kotunkahtuwok	Your uncle Jike and I...
03:57	iya John naka Kenny naka	John and Kenny and some other
04:02	wen-al apc kotok...	man went off hunting...
04:04	...ihik weci-pseskossok	...at Gleason's Cove, where...
04:07	nit-olu eli ihik... Wollamson.	There was a good breeze blowing.
04:11	Yuktok ducks etuciyahtihtit.	The ducks were flying really fast.
04:13	U ya.	Oh, yeah.
04:14	On nuhsuhkuwan. About November,	And we followed them. It was around November;
04:17	kis kisi-kekesk kisi-psan,	it had already snowed a little,
04:19	on nmacewsanen Cacpicuns	and Jike and I started walking
04:21	ihik lellutawtik.	along the railroad tracks.
04:22	Elomuhsiyek -- nit nkocicihtun mecimiw	As we kept walking --
04:24	'toliwihtomoniya Indian Head	I know they used to call that place Indian Head --
04:26	-- iyey nit-te li-pskiyawtosson.	a path branches off there.
04:28	U ya, nita.	Oh yeah, there.
04:30	Wot tahk wen weckuhuhset,	There was somebody walking
04:32	on iya nilun Cacpicuns npomuhsanen,	toward us and Jike and I walked along,
04:36	natkuwanen-ote. Ma tahk	we went straight toward him.
04:38	nomiyawin wen 'siskuk.	We couldn't see his face.
04:41	Ntotoli-litahasinen iya not iya Ceykin.	We were thinking that it was Jake.
04:46	Cacpin 'tiyal, "Ceykin,	Jike called to him,
04:50	ehqi-qeci-siktepawoline!"	"Jake, stop trying to scare us!"
04:52	Wot tahk elomuhset,	Whoever it was kept walking away,
04:54	nit etoli-psikiyawtossok nit elomi-ksewset.	going in where the path splits.
04:58	Yet nuhsuhkuwanen, yut tahk...	We followed him there, and...
05:01	ma tahk pomaptu!	He didn't leave any tracks!
05:03	Naka wastewiw kekesk.	And it was a little bit snowy.
05:06	Nit-te ntotoli-qolopessipon,	We turned around right there,
05:09	ma-te nsamtehkuwawinnuk	and we didn't set foot on the
05:11	yukk iyey lellutawtik pemi-qasqiyek.	railroad tracks as we ran along.
05:15	Ma-te wen keq itomu.	No one said anything.
05:17	Ipa, ktoqecimulan,	Hey, you ask him,
05:18	nit-tehc-ona nekom ktiyukun.	and he'll tell you the same thing.
05:21	Nit-ona neket iya Tanel kisakonutomuwit.	That's what Donnell told me also.
05:24	Nekom-ona nit 'kisi-lessin.	It happened to him, too.
05:25	Yut tahk skitapiyil iyey,	He saw a man,
05:29	itom ansa ktaqhomuhs, I think,	he said, like an old man, I think,
05:31	nit itokpon neket itom.	when he told about it.
05:32	Naka mec-ote	And he was
05:35	kehkimahpon.	still in school.
05:36	Yaluhset	He was walking along
05:38	lellutok,	the railroad tracks,
05:39	itom, on nomiyan nihtol skitapiyil	he said, when he saw that man
05:41	on 'totolewstuniya mahkiyew.	and they spoke for a little while.
05:43	Itom,	He said,
05:44	"Kisi-ihit,	"The man told me,
05:45	'Cu-oc kil, iyey,	'You will be
05:47	ktiyalam.'"	going fishing.'"
05:48	(Yalame.)	(He does go fishing.)
05:49	Itom, "Nit-oc kil ktoluhkewakon."	The man said, "That will be your work in life."
05:53	On 'qolopessin	And he turned around
05:55	on 'tolomuhsan, Wehqapiqek,	and went off, to Perry,
05:57	I guess, 'tolomuhsan,	I guess, he went off,
05:59	on Tanel apolapit,	and when Donnell looked back,
06:00	ma-te tama ihiw.	he was nowhere to be seen.
06:02	Itom, nit-te etoli-ksihkassit.	He said that he disappeared suddenly.
06:04	Itom, on 'kakawi-macahan.	And, he said, he himself hurried home.
06:06	Itom, "Mecimi-te nit nwewitahatomon."	He said, "I'll always remember that."