We Were Put in the Corner
Start Time | Passamaquoddy-Maliseet | English |
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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. |
Information
Capture Date
2011-03-12
Video Length
03:25
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