Formula of Medicine for Pregnant Women (Bear's Medicine)
told by Mary Marshall
June, 1901
Hoopa Valley, California
Transcribed by Pliny Earle Goddard
Source: Hupa Texts (UCPAAE vol. 1, no. 2), p. 276
- ninis'a:n
- World
- mine:jit
- in the middle
- hayah
- there
- 'a:na:ch'idyaw
- she got that way
- sa:ts'
- bear
- na:wa:-ne:ji-xw
- while walking.
While walking in the middle of the world Bear got this way.
- mine:jixomił
- After a while
- do: ma'a:diniłchwit
- she couldn't walk.
After a while she got so big she could not walk.
- hay-'ung'
- Then
- wung xokyung-na:'iya'
- she began to think about it,
- duxwe:di-q'i-gya'awh
- " Why
- 'awhdiyaw
- am I this way?"
- 'a:dimit'
- Her own belly
- tahungwho'owh
- so large
- mitis
- over it
- na'te:ng'e'n
- she looked.
Then she began to consider why she was in that condition.
- 'awh xa:t'in-e:
- "I wonder if this way it will be
- k'iwinya'n-ya:n-tah-ding
- Indian world
- hay-de:t
- this way
- 'awhdiyaw
- I am."
"I wonder if they will be the way I am, in the Indian world?"
- hayah-mił
- And
- xwe:ne:q'-q'it-ch'ing'
- at her back
- ch'ixe:ne:wh
- it spoke.
She heard someone talking behind her.
- hay
- "It
- 'e:ng'
- is
- k'iwinya'n-ya:n
- Indians
- ma:
- for
- 'a:nungdiyaw
- you are that way."
You are in this condition for the sake of Indians."
- hayah-mił
- And
- de:-xw
- around
- na'te:ng'ing'-hit
- when she looked
- de:t
- this
- 'ungya'
- she saw,
- ła'
- one
- xa:nt'ik'
- standing
- k'it'ung'-dingq'och*
- its leaves sour.
When she looked around she saw a single plant of redwood sorrel standing there.
*Oxalis Oregana.
- yisxung-hit
- Next day
- 'ungya'
- she found
- na:na:'isya'-e:-xola:n
- she could walk.
The next day she found she was able to walk.
- hayah-mił
- And
- 'a:ch'ondehsne'
- she thought,
- hayi-q'
- "This way
- xolun-tehł
- it will be
- k'iwinya'n-ya:n-tah-ding
- Indian world,
- hay-de:t
- this
- k'ima:w
- medicine
- mił
- with.
She thought, "It will be this way in the Indian world with this medicine.
- hayi-heh
- Anyhow
- do:-xoling
- not
- ła:n
- many
- whinist'e'
- my body
- ch'o:nahłts'it-te:
- will know.
At best not many will know about me.
- k'iwinya'n-ya:n-tah-ch'ing'
- Indian world in
- na:de:chwit-te:
- I will leave it.
I will leave it in the Indian world.