When I first came here

Start Time	Passamaquoddy-Maliseet	English
00:12	Kenuk mecimi-te eci-musqitahatom	But I always hated it here
00:14	yut amsqahs yut peciyay, 'sami eli...	when I first came, because
00:15	ma-te wen nenuwuk.	I didn't know anyone.
00:16	Ma-te wen knonuwaw?	You didn't know anyone?
00:17	Tehpu nonuwahpon nikuwoss,	I just knew my mother,
00:18	ma tahk qin nonuwaw.	and I didn't even know her very well.
00:20	Mm-hmm.	Mm-hmm.
00:21	Tehpu nomiyahpon	I just saw her sometimes when
00:22	anqoc sakhi-ksahat nuhkomossok.	she'd show up at my grandmother's.
00:25	Mm-hmm.	Mm-hmm.
00:26	Apc macahan.	Then she'd go away again.
00:27	Mm-hmm.	Mm-hmm.
00:27	Cel neket nwewitahatomon amsqahs	And I remember the time when I
00:30	nmihtaqs kisi-nonuwuk,	first got to know my father,
00:33	on npeciptakun, sakhi-milit kaltoluhk. I...	and he brought me a quarter. Wow...
00:36	nit-te nil ntolomi-qasqin Mehkok.	I ran right away. To Mack's store.
00:42	Ntapiptuwan nmuhsums sokas.	I went and got my grandfather a cigar.
00:45	'Sami nkocicihtun eci-wikuwaci-sokasi-	Because I knew that he loved to
00:47	wtomat tan eci-peciyat.	smoke cigars when he got home.
00:49	On ntolitahasin eluwehk-otehc	And I thought, I guess
00:51	nmonuhmuwewan sokas, naka iyey	I'll buy him a cigar, and when
00:53	peciyat kotuwahsontek nmilan.	he comes on Saturday I'll give it to him.
00:55	I... nil elomiyay nikonuk naka	Well... When I got back to my house and
00:57	weckuwi-paliphuk not sokas,	came in carrying that cigar so proudly,
00:59	tehpu qeni-wihqehtuwit ntatat.	my father just took it away from me.
01:02	Elapomuk, on nkossahan,	I looked at him, and I went in
01:04	ntiyahpon nuhkomoss, ntiyahpon,	and said to my grandmother,
01:06	"Tehpu not qeni-wihqehtuwit	"He just took Gramp's cigar
01:09	Gramp 'sokasomol."	away from me."
01:11	Itom, "Litahasu kal kotuwiwtom."	She said, "He must think you're going to smoke."
01:13	Itom, "Kmihtaqs not."	She said, "That's your father."
01:16	Ipa, nit-ona apc ma-te nkociciyaw	Hey, and I didn't know what that meant,
01:20	eli-minuwik nil not nmihtaqs.	that he was my "father."
01:23	'Sami nil nikihkuk nmuhsums	Because my parents were my
01:26	naka nuhkomoss.	grandfather and my grandmother.
01:27	Mm-hmm.	Mm-hmm.
01:29	Nit-te meciwiw	That's how it used to be,
01:32	eleyikpon kakawiw.	very much so.
01:36	Kmuhsums naka kuhkomoss niktok	Your grandfather and grandmother were
01:40	ankeyask nikk tepinask, ahsomosk.	the ones who took care of you and looked out for you, fed you.
01:46	Iya.	Yes.
01:48	Nakahc kmihtaqsonnuk naci, iyey,	And our fathers would go
01:50	yalayyawolotiniya.	play around.
01:54	Mm-hmm.	Mm-hmm.
01:56	Iya, mecimiw.	Yes, that's the way it was.