We Were Put in the Corner

Start Time	Passamaquoddy-Maliseet	English
00:01	Cel-oc anqoc wen etolotemit	And sometimes someone would be crying
00:02	wen etoli-aluwokisit.	because they couldn't read.
00:04	Aha, iya.	Yes, yes.
00:09	On-oc wen mattahan wen.	And someone would get hit.
00:12	On-oc wen mattahan wen.	And someone would get hit.
00:13	Kil-ona nit ktoli-nomihtun etolokehkimkiyin?	Did you see anything like that when you were going to school?
00:14	Kil-ona nit ktoli-nomihtun etolokehkimkiyin?	Did you see anything like that when you were going to school?
00:17	Iya.	Yes.
00:19	Kosona skat kcicihtuwon, nit-tehc	Or if you didn't know it,
00:22	'titomon not, iya, sistoss,	then the nun would say,
00:24	"Yet ktoliyan naka ksehkan."	"Go over there and stand." And that's why
00:27	Nit-te naka weci psi-te wen 'kisi-malikimkun.	everyone would make fun of you.
00:30	Iya, kamot-tehp wen 'titomon nit iyey..	Yes, it would have been better for someone to say...
00:34	Keppuckahasik kpunken.	...for you to be put in the lock-up.
00:35	Aha.	Yes.
00:39	Naka wen ekhulan tama.	Or to be hung up somewhere.
00:40	Mm-hmm.	Mm-hmm.
00:41	Tehpu nit ntolitahasihpon-al	I just thought that it must have
00:43	nit sakhiyak neqt ihik school...	come out once at the school...
00:46	...kakehs kisi-punkehpon keppuckahasik.	...how many time we were locked up.
00:47	Ntolitahasihpon-al niktok wasisok,	I thought it must have been those children,
00:52	kisi-ekhula wot skinuhsis, kenuk not nit,	this boy who was hung up, but it was the
00:55	iya, sistoss kisi-ekhulal	nun who hung him up on the
00:57	coat-rack.	coat-rack.
00:58	Nit-ona nil, neke sistoss	Me, too, when the nun
01:01	keti-lehlit, yet kisi-kcoskessi,	did that to me, when I got away,
01:03	woli-te nuteliqephu, iya.	I got the hell out of there, yes.
01:08	Kil tomk.	You go first.
01:09	Okay, that's that.	Okay, that's that.
01:14	On-oc apc nuskiw...	And then, on top of that, when
01:17	sistoss kisi-mattuhusk	the nun had spanked you for doing
01:18	eli-wapololuhkiyin to them,	something that was wrong to them,
01:23	eli-wapololuhkiyin to them,	something that was wrong to them,
01:25	on-oc apc macahayin, well, kmosimken,	then when you went home, well, you'd been told on, and you got another
01:27	apc kmatoliqehtuhuken peciyayin kikuwak.	beating when you got to your house.
01:31	Iya, I know.	Yes, I know.
01:33	Eci-woli-tpostuwahtit sistoss.	They were very obedient to the nuns.
01:35	I guess nit nit ehcuwi...	I guess that's what they had to...
01:39	Piyemi-wolamsotuwa sistoss.	A nun was more believable.
01:42	Nekom-olu psimot, ma-te wen	If she told on you, no one was going
01:44	'koti-wolamsotomuwon.	to believe otherwise.
01:46	Aha.	- Yes.
01:47	Keq cel ktoliwihtomon church?	What do you call a church?
01:50	Imiyewikuwam.	"Imiyewikuwam" -- church.
01:54	Wot kahk Rib ma-te milehlawi.	But Rib here didn't have all those things done to her.
01:57	Nama?	No?
02:00	'Sami apsokil.	Because she was small.
02:02	No...	No...
02:03	Nkisi-monahkewan veil sistoss.	I knocked a nun's veil off.
02:05	Cokahk.	Oh my God!
02:06	Cu.	Yes I did.
02:10	Nit-te-na nuci-nuteliqephuwan skulok.	Then I ran like hell out of the school.
02:14	Iya.	Wow.
02:15	Nuci-tqonkelicil 'kisi-wihqimaniya.	They called the constable.
02:18	Ntiyaliphoqalkun nuci-tqonket ihik	He chased me
02:20	pastawok,	around the pasture,
02:23	kenuk ma nmosonoku.	but he didn't catch me.
02:27	Knihtawiphu.	You know how to get away.
02:28	Nihtawiphu.	I know how to get away.
02:29	Iya.	Wow.
02:31	On-olu tan, apaciyayin?	And what happened when you got back?
02:33	Nmatoliqenken.	I really got it.
02:35	Peciyayin kikuwak?	When you got home?
02:36	Mm-hmm.	Mm-hmm.
02:37	Iya.	Wow.
02:38	Pehki-te kistetul ipisiyil.	The switches were all ready.
02:40	Iya, gee.	Yow! Gee.
02:44	Ma-te ktahcuwi-naci-	You didn't have to go
02:45	pkonomuwonol kil-ote?	pick them yourself?
02:46	Nama, pehki-te kistetul kessahay.	No, they were all ready when I came in.
02:52	Nit ehta apc kotok neke:	That was another thing back then:
02:54	"Nacipt ktipisimol."	"Go get your switches."
02:56	Iya.	Yes.
02:56	Mm-hmm. Nil-ote-na.	Mm-hmm. Me, too.
02:59	And I'll get the littlest ones, naka	And I'll get the littlest ones,
03:02	naciptun.	and take them home.
03:04	Joe Socoby.	Joe Socoby.
03:07	Nekom neket nuci-tqonket.	He was the constable at the time.
03:11	Ernestine mihtaqsol.	Ernestine's father.
03:13	Aha.	Yes.
03:16	Tan-op-al ntoli-psonkun,	Yes. I don't know how he was
03:18	etutoliqahay elomiphuwi,	supposed to catch me, going like hell
03:20	naka nekom etutapskosit.	when I ran away, and he was so fat.