The Coming of White Men
told by McCann
July, 1902
Hoopa Valley, California
Transcribed by Pliny Earle Goddard
Source: Hupa Texts (UCPAAE vol. 1, no. 2), p. 198
- xay
- Winter
- me:q'
- time
- 'a:ya[']de:ne'
- they said
- ch'itindił
- they are coming
- yinahch'ing
- from the south.
It was winter when they heard they were coming from the south.
- haya:ł
- And
- xoh
- in vain
- 'a:ya'de:ne'
- they said,
- duxo:whe'eh
- "Some way
- 'a:ky'ohleh
- you do.
"Let us make a dance or do something else," they said.
- 'a:ya'de:ne'
- they said,
- q'ut
- "Already
- łe:lding
- Southfork
- ch'inte:de:tł'
- they have come."
Then they heard that they had already reached Southfork.
- łe:lding
- Southfork
- k'iwinya'n-ya:n
- Indians
- xo:ta'a:n
- ran down
- me'dilding
- to Medilding.
- hayah
- There
- 'a:ya'de:ne'
- they said,
- 'a:ya't'ing
- they do."
Southfork men ran down to Medilding and told them that the strangers did no harm.
- ch'inte:de:tł'
- they came down
- me'dilding
- to Medilding.
- xwe:tehłwe:tł'
- they spent the night.
They came down to Medilding and camped for the night on the other side above the village.
- haya:ł
- And
- hayah
- there
- diywho'
- something
- ch'o:ya'te:xe:t
- they bought,
- diywho'
- some
- sa:ts'
- bear
- diwa:n
- hides,
- tah
- too,
- diywho'
- some
- michwa:n'-tułta:n
- fox hides,
- tah
- too,
- mina:'-xwe:
- coon hides
- tah
- too.
- mił-ch'ohłwul-ch
- Small axes
- xowa:ya[']te:lay
- they gave them
- tse:łch'e'
- knives
- tah
- too.
There they bought bear, fox, and coon hides, giving hatchets and knives for them.
- sahwinde'n
- they travelled.
- digyung
- right here
- xwe:tehłwe:tł'
- they camped
They came down here to Sauwhtitcdiñ and camped on the north side of the creek.
*The place is named for a man who used to say, when a child, sauwh-titc "Let me put the flour of seeds in my mouth." The baby name has established itself as the name of a family and their place of living.
- tsinte:tehsdilde:tł'
- we ran away
- tse:-me:q'
- cañon
- yide'
- down.
We ran away from them down into the cañon.
- sahwinde'n
- they went on.
- sike:ts'iq'it
- (Bloody camp)
- xwe:tehłwe:tł'
- they spent the night.
They went on and spent the next night at Bloody camp.
- 'a:ya[']de:ne'
- they say
- sahwinde'n
- they went on.
- xot'ina:n-ding
- at Martin's ferry
- yima:n
- across
- me:site:de:tł'
- they went along up.
Then they say they went on crossing Pine creek at Martin's Ferry.
- xwe:łq'i(t) yide'
- Bald hills down through
- sahwinde'n
- they went.
- miq'eh-na:diwul-ding
- mouth of the Klamath
- q'eh
- along
- ch'e'te:de:tł'-e:
- they came out.
They went over the Bald Hills coming out to the ocean at the mouth of the Klamath.
- hay na:mitł'a'-ding
- After that time
- ta:q'i-ding
- three
- xowh
- about
- me:nundiyay
- years
- mił
- after
- 'a:ya'de:ne'
- they said,
- tahdehslah
- "Has come
- me'dil
- a boat
- miwung
- ocean
Three or four years after that they heard a boat had come in at Trinidad.
*Trinidad.
- xwe:łq'i(t) yide'
- Bald Hills
- mił
- from
- xohwilła:t
- ran
- k'iwinya'n-ya:n
- a man.
- 'a[']de:ne'
- he said,
- diywho'
- "Some-thing
- tindił
- is coming."
A Bald Hill Indian ran over and reported that something was coming.
- ło:q'-yiditile:
- otter-skins
- xowa:ya[']te:lay
- they gave them
- łitsowi-ch
- blue beads
- wung
- for.
They bought otter-skins with blue beads.