Our Life is Different Now
Start Time | Passamaquoddy-Maliseet | English |
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00:01 | Motuweyu en ci mawehlut wasisok. | It's hard when children are brought together. |
00:05 | Mecimiw psi-te pesqon keq wen eyyit. | It used to be that what one person had, |
00:09 | Tepot ma-te wen... | everyone had. That's why no one... |
00:11 | 'Tankeyutomoniya. | ...takes care of it. |
00:12 | Tetpeyultitpon. | Everyone was equal. |
00:14 | Psi-te wen | Everyone |
00:15 | yaluwisu en ci | went berry-picking |
00:18 | tayimuwik 'toluwisin. | when it was time to go berry-picking. |
00:21 | Natayyawlotipon sitomok | We went to play on the shore |
00:23 | 'sami psi-te nit wen elluhket. | because everyone did. |
00:25 | Naka psi-te wen 'toliyan, | And everyone went, |
00:27 | psi-te wen tpinuwa. | everyone was watched out for. |
00:28 | Mm-hmm. | Mm-hmm. |
00:30 | Psi-te wen tpinuwa, | Everyone was watched out for, |
00:31 | tepot eci-miyawhukhotiyiq. | That's why we had so much fun. But now |
00:32 | Toke-olu wasisok en ci | when children go around together, |
00:35 | mawiyahtihtit, | when they go to school, |
00:36 | en ci natokehkimut piluwopultuwok. | they're in a different situation. |
00:40 | Iya. | Yes. |
00:40 | Piluwopultuwok. Nit-te wen 'sakhiyan | Their situation is different. |
00:43 | naka wen 'titomon, | Someone shows up |
00:44 | "Nit wot eyit, nit wot | and then one says, |
00:46 | etoli-olluhket. | "He has that, he does that. |
00:47 | Nil-ona nit npawatomon." | I want that too." |
00:49 | Mm-hmm. | Mm-hmm. |
00:49 | "Nil-ona nit npawatomon." | "I want it, too." |
00:50 | Nit-te kilun | Then we go get it for them. |
00:53 | Nit-te kilun iyey knaciptuwanen. | "I want it, too." |
00:56 | Nit-te kilun iyey knaciptuwanen. | Then we go get it for them. |
00:56 | Nit weci nit lamikuwam iyultihtit | That's why they're indoors and doing that. |
00:59 | naka nit 'tollukhotiniya. | Because that's entirely the way |
01:01 | 'Sami nit-te eleyik psi wikultiyiq. | it is in our community. |
01:04 | Mm-hmm. | Mm-hmm. |
01:05 | Iya, nit-te eleyik. | Yes, that's how it is. |
01:07 | Tokec pawatomoq piluwehtasu, | If we want it to be different, |
01:09 | kilun nit ktahcuwi-piluwehtunen. | we have to make it different. |
01:11 | Psi-te kcuwi-mawi-piluwehtunen. | We have to make it different together. |
01:15 | On-oc-al-lu tan? | How else can we? |
01:19 | I know it, Gee. | How else can we? |
01:22 | Eli ehta ikolisomanokehkimkahtiyiq toke. | We're taught the white man's way now. |
01:29 | Olokehkima wen, | You're taught: |
01:32 | "Kila. Kila. Kila. | "You. You. You. |
01:34 | Kil keti-olluhkiyin kil eli-pawatomon. | You're going to do what you want to do. |
01:37 | Kila. Kila. Kila." | You. You. You." |
01:39 | Mecimiw elokehkimkahtiyiq, | What we used to be taught was, |
01:42 | "Mawiw. Mawiw. Mawiw psi-te kilun." | "Together. All of us together." |
01:46 | Ma-te wen | No one had to go around |
01:49 | cuwi-yali-kinessiw | No one had to go around |
01:50 | keqsey wen naciptaq. | scrambling for a living. |
01:54 | Kosona ma wen nokasiw skat mosonomuwon. | No one was afraid of going without. |
01:57 | 'Sami cu wot knaciptakun, | Because this one would go get |
01:59 | cu wot ksepomuwihtakun. | it for you, would save it for you. |
02:02 | On toke ma-te nit leyiw. | And it's not like that anymore. |
02:04 | Skat nit tomk ihiwon | If you don't have it first, |
02:06 | ma-tehc kmosoliqenomuwon. | you're not going to get it. |
02:08 | Mm, hmm. | Mm, hmm. |
02:09 | So, piluwahte-te toke ktolawsuwakonon. | So our life is different now. |
02:12 | Mm-hmm. | Mm-hmm. |
02:13 | Aqami-motuweyu | Life today is more difficult |
02:16 | kilun skat nit eli-macekultiwohq. | than ours was. |
02:20 | Nil kahk-ote nkotomakitahatomon lawsuwakon toke, | I feel sorry for people's life today, |
02:25 | sami piluwahte, | because it's different, |
02:29 | piluwahte-te, | very different, |
02:34 | Komac piluwahte. | Really different. |
02:41 | Nit weci-kakawi-ktomakopultihtit | That's why our children |
02:45 | knicannuk. | are in such hard straits. |
02:51 | Ma wewawsultiwiyik. | They don't know how to live. |
02:53 | Mm-hmm. | Mm-hmm. |
02:55 | 'Sami nit-te etoli-mecimessultihtit | Because that's where we're |
02:58 | kilun elawsultiyiqpon, | stuck in our lives, |
03:00 | naka yukk toke elawsultihtit piluweyak. | and the way other people live now. |
03:04 | Nit etoli-mecimessultihtit knicannuk. | That's where our children are stuck. |
03:10 | Ktahcuwi keq olluhkhotipon piluwey. | We must do something different. |
03:15 | Ktokehkimaniya. | Teach them. |
03:16 | Ktahcuwi. | We have to. |
03:18 | Natuwisin, naci-suwitokolaskan wen. | To go pick berries, to gather sweetgrass. |
03:21 | Mm-hmm. | Mm-hmm. |
03:22 | Macephan wen wasisol. | To take a child with you. |
03:24 | Mm- hmm. | Mm- hmm. |
03:26 | Naka ktokehkiman. | And to teach him. |
03:27 | Mm-hmm, | Mm-hmm, |
03:30 | iya. | yes. |
03:32 | 'Talamkuhstahsin wen. | To take a group with you, the way we always did. |
03:37 | Aha. | Yes. |
03:38 | Nit mecimiw. | That's how it was. |
03:39 | Etuci wen 'tawessit, | You knew how to do things, |
03:41 | ansa wen 'toluhkewakon. | as if it was your work. |
03:43 | Nit-te wen elluhket naka | Then you went on to lead others |
03:45 | 'tolomamkustahsin is right. | in what you did - that's right. |
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Capture Date
2010-10-05
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