They Teased Her

Start Time	Passamaquoddy-Maliseet	English
00:03	You know, qenikotonet nmamam	You know, as my mother
00:06	wewitahatomon nekomaw,	is getting older she remembers
00:09	iyey, etolokehkimut.	how they were taught.
00:11	Aha.	Yes.
00:12	Ihik Eastport.	In Eastport.
00:13	U, Muselenk?	Oh, in Eastport?
00:14	Muselenk. Naka	In Eastport.
00:15	itom ma kisi-graduate-uwiw,	And she says she couldn't graduate,
00:19	'sami stiti-te totoli-malikima, skicinuwok.	because she was always being made fun of, and the other Native kids.
00:23	Malikimawal?	They made fun of her?
00:24	Malikimawal naka they --	They made fun of her and they --
00:28	keq cel nit word,	what's that word for
00:33	teasing, cel?	"teasing"?
00:35	'Cikawiyawal.	" 'Cikawiyawal" -- they teased her.
00:36	- 'Cikawiyawal	They teased her
00:38	because of the color.	because of the color.
00:39	You know, wen elocossit.	You know, how dark one is.
00:41	Mm-hmm.	Mm-hmm.
00:42	Mamselimawal?	Did they bully her?
00:43	Aha. Naka	Yes. And
00:45	I think the sadder story back then kilun...	I think the sadder story back then for us...
00:51	Kenuk yut wen eyit,	But whoever was here,
00:52	te-na, nit-te-na skinuhsisok.	also, and also the boys.
00:54	I could remember	I could remember
00:56	etoli-tpostom in class,	listening in class,
00:59	etuttemit not skinuhsis in the closet,	to a boy crying in the closet,
01:02	tama etoli-mattuhut.	where he was being spanked.
01:06	Mm-hmm.	Mm-hmm.
01:08	Skinuhsisok qin,	The boys,
01:10	ma qin pilsehsisok.	not really the girls.
01:12	Qin-ote skinuhsisok?	Really? The boys?
01:14	Aha, to me, I think mostly skinuhsisok.	Yes, to me, I think mostly the boys.
01:17	Stehpal wewitahatoman	I seem to remember that
01:19	skinuhsisok mecimiw punak, iyey,	the boys were always put at that
01:23	nit-olu desk naka matoliqehtahan.	desk and really got hit hard.
01:26	Iya, nita.	Yes, that's so.
01:28	Nil-ona nwewitahatomon.	I remember it, too.
01:29	Iya.	Yes.
01:30	Nit-tehc wen.	That's how it was.
01:30	'Qocik wen.	On your rear end.
01:31	Tett oloqiw.	Like that.
01:32	Ahtoli-tokomut wen 'qocik.	You kept getting hit on the rear end.
01:33	Aha, nit-te-na olomi-cituwessu,	Yes, then you'd bend over,
01:36	you know.	you know.
01:37	Iya, olokiman wen...	Yes, you'd be told to go...
01:38	Well, anqoc wen olokima	Well, sometimes you'd be sent
01:41	wahte asitewey seat	way back to the back seat and
01:44	naka olokiman	told to bend over, and
01:47	'cituwessin, naka wen mattahan.	someone would hit you.
01:49	Iya, nwewitahatomon nit nil.	Yes, I remember that.
01:50	Cel keskimiyay.	And I'd get chills up my spine.
01:54	Naka itomuhtuwok ma-te kil	And they'd say that neither your
01:57	kmamam kosona ktatat	mother nor your father
01:58	kehkimaw, you know.	disciplines you, you know.
02:00	Ktokehkimku.	He doesn't discipline you.
02:01	Ktokehkimku naka ma kmattuhukewon.	Doesn't discipline you, and you don't get spanked.
02:03	Iya.	Yes.
02:05	Ma ktokehkitasiw.	You don't get disciplined.
02:06	- Ma ktokehkitasiw, iya.	Yes, you don't get disciplined.
02:08	Aha.	Yes.
02:09	Nit...	That's...
02:10	That's the magic word,	That's the magic word,
02:11	nit mecimiw:	always is:
02:13	ma ktokehkitasiw.	you don't get disciplined.
02:17	Psi-te wen siktehpayu,	Everyone was afraid
02:19	iyey, wen natokehkimut.	to go to school.
02:22	Iya.	Yes.
02:22	You know.	You know.
02:24	Well, mecimiw itomuk	Well, the parents always said
02:26	ma, iyey, mattahawiwa nicanuwa.	they didn't hit their children.
02:29	Nit	That's how they saw it,
02:31	elinuwahtit, ihi, sistoss eli-mattahahtit wasis.	how the nuns spanked the kids.
02:36	"Cuwi yaq mattaha wasis on yaka	"A child must be spanked, and then he
02:38	kisokehkiman." Kenuk ma leyiw.	can be taught." But that's not true.
02:40	Iya, nitok! Iya,	Yes, that's right!
02:42	that's true;	That's true;
02:43	nit mecimiw itomuhtit.	they used to say that.
02:48	Nilun ntoliwiyukepon,	They called us
02:50	"little savages."	"little savages."
02:52	Aha.	Yes.