Passamaquoddy Last Rites

Start Time	Peskotomuhkati-Wolastoqey	English
00:02	Iya nit ehta ntatat kisi-mehcinet...	Well, then my father died...
00:06	Ihil 'kolonikonol ktatatol.	Your father was his godchild.
00:10	On-oc ehsontek solahkiw	And on Sunday
00:12	naci-wikuwamkoman.	he happened to go visit him.
00:13	Kis neke ntatat lossinuhpon.	My father was already confined to his bed then.
00:16	Komotu itom ktatat, itom,	Suddenly your father said,
00:20	"Ma-te ktiywawiyik imiyakonok?"	"Don't you have a rosary?"
00:24	Itom, "Stehpal wot etolimiyat."	He said, "He seems to be praying."
00:26	Ntatat tahalu lossin kuhutik.	My father was just lying there in the bed.
00:28	Ma-te keqsey kolonomu.	He wasn't holding anything.
00:30	Cel ste imiyakon kelonat.	But he looked as if he were holding a rosary.
00:34	On ntapi-kiluwahan,	And I went to look for one,
00:35	nkisi-milan iya	and I gave it
00:37	Fen.	to Fan.
00:38	Fen not neket 'totoli iyey...	Fan was the one at that time who...
00:40	"'Totoli-nkahsenal" eliwihtasik.	"put out his light," as it was called.
00:42	Iya, iya cel wot itom,	Yes, and she said,
00:45	"Ma-te apc wen, nil tehpu."	"There's no one else here, just me."
00:47	Naka ktatat-ona nit 'topin.	And your father was sitting there, too.
00:51	Itom Fen,	Fan said,
00:54	"Coke tett oloqapek wiwoniw elossit."	"Here, get yourself over there around his bed."
00:57	Kis 'kisi...	She'd already...
00:58	Nit-al olkihqon kenotols,	The candle was about that big,
00:59	cel 'kisi-psqolenomon.	and she'd lit it.
01:01	'Kisi-punomuwan candle ntatat	She put the candle in
01:04	tett oloqiw,	my father's hand this way,
01:06	'kisi-psqolenomon,	she lit it,
01:10	nit-te macemiyan.	and she started to pray.
01:12	Skicinuwimiye, iya.	She prayed in Passamaquoddy.
01:16	Solahki-tehc yut-tehc 'toli iyey...	Suddenly she...
01:19	'Toli-qilunal,	She felt on his chest,
01:22	apc-oc 'ciksotuwan.	and then she listened to his breathing.
01:24	Itom, "Keka-te, keka-te."	She said, "Almost, almost."
01:27	Nutomon te yut etoli-ahtolessit, wen...	I heard him keep moving...
01:29	ketuwinet wen, iya.	when someone is about to die...
01:32	On komotu solahkiw-ote itom,	And suddenly she said,
01:34	"Keka-te," apc macemiyan.	"Almost," and she started praying again.
01:37	Peciw yut...	She even...
01:39	Solahki-te yuhtol 'tolomi-wihqonal iyey...	Suddenly she took out
01:42	kensisol pqopossut, iyey	this little can...
01:46	pqeyu nit, nit ochre... red ochre.	It was ochre, red ochre.
01:49	Nita.	Well.
01:51	'Toli-iywan, naka	She did that to him, and
01:52	yut-te 'toli-sunhomuwan.	she put it on him here.
02:06	On apc kisi-sunhat, on iyey ...	And then, when she had anointed him,
02:12	'tolintuwewal.	she sang to him.
02:15	Peci-te uskicinuwintuwewal.	She even sang in Passamaquoddy.
02:18	Itom, "Nit-te sunhomuwan nita."	She said, "Anoint him there."
02:21	Itom, "Keka-te."	She said, "Almost."
02:26	Stehpal nit etolessit,	Then it was as if something was happening to him,
02:28	piluwessu,	a change came over him,
02:29	stehpal yut siskul apuckolessik.	his eyes kind of rolled back.
02:34	Itom, "Iya, mehciniya."	She said, "Yes, he has died."
02:46	Amsqahs-ote wen nomiyan wen	That was the first time I saw someone
02:47	piluwessit.	go through the change that happens when you die.