The Nun Would Always Tell Me, 'Don't Speak Passamaquoddy'

Start Time	Passamaquoddy-Maliseet	English
00:00	So, tan ktolehloken tan eci	So how were you treated when you
00:02	skicinuwatuwiyin etolokehkimiyin?	spoke Passamaquoddy at school?
00:04	Aha!	Yes!
00:05	Tan ntolehloken?	How was I treated?
00:09	Mecimi-te sistoss ntiyoq, iyey...	The nun would always tell me,
00:12	"Mus nit lewest..."	"Don't talk that way."
00:14	"Skicinuwewestuhkoc"?	"Don't speak Passamaquoddy"?
00:15	Iya, iya.	Yes, yes.
00:20	Gee.	Gee.
00:21	Naka motuweyu.	And that's hard.
00:22	Motuweyu.	It's hard.
00:23	Iya.	Yes.
00:24	'Cause we'll be talking	'Cause we'll be talking
00:25	amongst ourselves...	amongst ourselves...
00:26	Nuliqehtuhuken, iyey, ruler.	She hit me good and hard with a ruler.
00:29	Ruler?	A ruler?
00:30	Aha.	Yes.
00:31	Tama ktuttohoq?	Where did she hit you?
00:32	Elkilok not.	It was a big one.
00:39	Nil neke keti-tokomit Sister Reparata,	When Sister Reparata was going
00:41	nit ruler keka-te pisessik npihtinok.	to hit me, that ruler almost went into
00:44	Tehpu qeni-wihqiptinessi,	my hand. I just pulled it away,
00:45	cel whack! pemsokhasik.	and whack! on the floor.
00:49	Miyawtuhusu.	She hit herself.
00:50	Aha, etuciluwahat.	Yes, she was so mad!
00:52	Apc-al aqamotu.	Even more so after that, I would think.
00:54	Tehpu qeni-pkikatok, iyey, reysa,	She just grabbed an eraser,
00:56	nihtol-olu erasers, square ones,	one of those square ones,
00:59	qeni-pkikatok naka ntokomokun.	grabbed it and hit me with it.
01:02	Knuhsuwi-tokomokun-ote?	Did it hit you right on?
01:06	Nit pekossok nsiskuk.	It hit me in the face.
01:08	Iya.	Wow.
01:12	Nuci-nutahan.	I went right out of the classroom.
01:15	Cel neke neqt sistoss	And once a nun
01:18	nkoti-natekhuloq ihik	was going to hang me up,
01:22	nit-olu old school... nihtol, where you	in that old school... on those,
01:25	ekhulot kcehkitomok. Nit ehta	where you hung your jackets. That's
01:27	keti-natekhulit,	where she was going to hang me up,
01:30	iya.	yes.
01:32	Nuci-nut... back seat epi, nit weci, iyey...	I was sitting in a back seat, that's why...
01:38	keqsey cel nit neke.	It was something at that time.
01:43	U,	Oh,
01:45	neket nit	I wanted
01:48	nkoti-macahan.	to leave.
01:50	On ntiyukun, "Ma kisi-macahaw."	And she told me, "You can't leave."
01:55	Neket nit	It was
01:57	amsqahs, iyey, u,	the first time, oh,
02:05	ntehpituwiyan.	that I had my period.
02:07	Nit-te ma nkotuwamihkiwon.	And I didn't want to stand up.
02:09	- Iya.	Well,
02:12	On 'puwatomon,	and she wanted me,
02:16	you know, nutahan ihik hallway.	you know, to go out into the hallway.
02:18	Ma-te nkoti-nutahaw.	I didn't want to go out.
02:20	On neke npokkikalkun, on nit	So she grabbed me, and began to
02:23	mace-puwekihpulkun naka	shake me and was going to
02:26	nkotuwekhulokun ihik nihtol,	hang me up where those
02:31	ihil, hooks eyik.	hooks were.
02:33	Cokahk!	Oh my God!
02:35	Twenty-nine, twenty-nine.	Twenty-nine, twenty-nine.
02:37	Eluwe-te npokkikala...	I almost grabbed her...
02:40	Nmonahkewan, iyey...	I pulled off her...
02:43	Kil toke.	Your turn now.
02:44	Ma-te ntoluhkawon.	I didn't do it.
02:46	I think that she...	I think that she...
02:48	Aha, nit-te kisi-kcoskessi, woli-te	Yes, and as soon as I got away from her, I went
02:51	noqci-nutaha. Ma-te-na nwesuwessiw.	straight out, right away. And I didn't go back.
02:54	You just dealt that.	You just dealt that.
02:55	Aha.	Yes.
02:55	Naka nuskiw nmosimkun.	And on top of that I got told on.
02:57	Iya.	Wow.
02:58	- Iya.	Yes.
02:59	Not nit Reparata?	That was Reparata?
03:00	Iya, minuwiwuhpon not.	Wow, she was a mean one.
03:00	Aha.	Yes.
03:04	Keq liwisu?	What was her name?
03:05	Reparata.	Reparata.
03:06	Not yaka mecahkomiksitpon.	She was nasty, that one.
03:09	It might be her, then.	It might be her, then.
03:10	Cipotu-te.	Maybe.
03:11	It could be.	It could be.
03:14	There were only two, naka pahtoliyas.	There were only two, and the priest.
03:16	Aha.	Yes.
03:16	Tomlinson, right?	Tomlinson, right?
03:19	Eluwehk-al.	I guess so.
03:24	Nilun kahk Father Rice.	We had Father Rice down here.
03:25	U, okay.	Oh, okay.
03:32	I think way back then	I think way back then
03:34	komac sistossok	the nuns
03:37	sikomtuhtuwok.	were really rigid.
03:39	Iya.	That's right.
03:46	Sister Beatrice-ote piyemi-miyawomahtaqpon.	Sister Beatrice was the nicest.
03:48	Iya, not-te piyemi-miyawomahtaq,	Yes, she was the nicest one, and also...
03:52	Wen not?	Who was that?
03:52	Sister Beatrice.	Sister Beatrice.
03:56	Not-te piyemi-miyawomahtaqpon.	She was the nicest one of all.
04:00	Nkoti-motehtihikehpon.	I was going to knock.