They Teased Her
Start Time | Passamaquoddy-Maliseet | English |
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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. |
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Capture Date
2010-12-18
Video Length
02:53
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