Our Life is Different Now

Start Time	Passamaquoddy-Maliseet	English
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.