xa:k'iwidwhe'-ding

At Xa:k'widwhe'ding (Norton Field)

'ineh-taw

potatoes

no:ya:k'idijich

we were planting (seeds).

We were planting potatoes at Norton Field (Xa:k'iwidwhe'ding).

haya:ł

Then

Louise

Louise

'a'de:ne'

said,

hay

"That

k'iyahts

bird

ts'eh

I hear

diwine'

crying, making a noise,

ło:q'

salmon

ts'eh

I feel

nindetł'

have come,

ło:q'-chwo:

'Salmon's Grandmother'

diwine'

is crying

ts'eh

I hear."

Louise said to me, "I hear that bird crying; I think the salmon have come; I hear 'Salmon's Grandmother' crying."

haya:ł

Then

'a'de:ne'

she said,

keh dahnintsah

"Why don't you go fishing,

xayah

fishing place

sa'a:n

(which) lies

hayah

there

to:-ding

at the river

yide'

downstream?"

Then she said, "Why don't you go fishing at the fishing spot there downstream on the river?"

haya:ł

Then

me:se:tł'ong'

I tied up

k'ixa:q'

the net.*

So I tied up the net.

haya:ł

Then

xoda:ya'whiłte:n

they took me down, led me down,

hayah

there

dahne:se:day

I sat down above (the net).

They led me down the bank and I took my seat above the net.

haya:ł

Then

dahya:we:sa:'a'

I fished with the net.

I started fishing.

diywhe'eh

Nothing

do:

not

mide:wiliw

hit against it.

Nothing hit the net.

mine:jixomił

After a while

ch'e:ya'ninde:tł'

they came down to the riverbank.*

After a while, they all came down to the bank.

haya:ł

Then

'a'de:ne'

she (Louise) said,

diydi

"Something

whung

only, at all?"

Louise said, "Caught anything?"

haya:ł

Then

'a:de:ne'

I said,

daw

"No!"

"No," I said.

haya:ł

Then

na:ya'tehsde:tł'

they went back

e:y

there.

And they went back to the house.

haya:ł

Then

k'iye:

again

ch'e:ya'ninde:tł'

they came down to the bank.

Again they all came down to the bank.

haya:ł

Then

'a'de:ne'

she said,

diydi

"Something

whung

at all?"

She said, "Caught anything?"

haya:ł

Then

'a:de:ne'

I said,

daw

"No!"

And I said, "No."

haya:ł

Then

tse:

stone

me:w

under

yiduq

uphill

ch'ite:ng'e'n

she looked,

hayah

there

no:ne:lay

I had put them.

Then she looked under the rock up the slope, where I had put them.

nahx

Two

we:xa:n

I had caught.

I'd caught two!

łahxw

Only

'e:n'

it was

'a:xoł-diwhne:

I tell her a story

diywhe'eh

nothing

do:

not

we:xung

I caught.

It was only a story I was telling her, that I hadn't caught anything.

ch'iłtsa:n

She saw

hay

the

ło:q'

salmon,

nahx

two

dahungwho'oxw

to a great extent

'a:yułkyow

the were big.

She looked at the salmon -- two really large ones.

haya:ł

Then

ya'winge:n

she packed them

e:y

there.

haya:ł

Then

na'tehsdiyay

she went back

e:y

there.

haya:ł

Then

'a'de:ne'

she said,

dungwho'

"Someone

nich'ing'

to you

ch'e:ch'o:ya'n

might come down to the bank (to steal them)!"

She packed them up and started back to the house. She said, "Someone might come to you and steal them!"

nahx

Two

we:xa:n

I caught

hayah-dung'

at that time

ło:q'

salmon.

I caught two salmon that time!