You're Blonde. So Don't Try to Use the Native Language

Start Time	Passamaquoddy-Maliseet	English
00:01	Tan-olu ktoleyakun ihik nikk	How did those nuns treat you when
00:04	sistossok etolokehkimkiyin?	you were going to school?
00:07	U, eci-wolinaqahk nit!	Oh, that looks good!
00:08	Motehtihiket...	If she knocks...
00:12	Well, nil...	Well, my...
00:14	'sami ma-te nil my hair,	because my hair isn't...
00:17	ma-te, iyey... Tan nit wen	How do you say
00:19	'toliwihtomon blonde?	"blonde"?
00:21	Kwisawaltoq.	"Kwisawaltoq" — you have blonde hair.
00:22	Nwisawaltoq, iyey,	I'm blonde,
00:25	naka ntoqeci-skicinuwatu.	and I'm trying to speak
00:30	Itomultuwok yut oloqiw, itom,	Passamaquoddy. Because of that
00:33	"Kat kil skicin." 'Sami, you know...	they say, "You're not Native." Because, you know...
00:36	...kwisawaltoq.	...you have blonde hair.
00:38	"Kwisawaltoq. Mus nit, iyey,	"You're blonde.
00:39	mus wehkehkoc	So don't use the
00:42	skicinu[watuwe]wakon."	Native language."
00:44	Wen nit yuhusk?	Who told you that?
00:45	Yeta.	Over there.
00:47	Sistossok?	The nuns?
00:48	Sistossok. Pihce nit.	The nuns. That was a long time ago.
00:50	So, nit-te-na apc wasisok eyultihtit...	So then the other kids who were there...
00:54	Naka, iyey,	And I understood,
00:57	nostomon on wasisok stiti-te, iyey...	and the kids were always...
01:01	Kcikawiyukuk.	They teased you.
01:02	Ntoqecehtunen,	We tried to speak Passamaquoddy,
01:03	stiti-te, kenuk sistossok nit, iyey,	all the time, but the nuns,
01:09	wen, you know, tahaluhp, iyey...	they'd
01:14	get mad... Keq wen 'toluwehkan?	get mad -- What's the word you use?
01:16	Wisokiluwahat?	"Wisokiluwahat"? -- she's mad.