de:d-a:ng'

here

xwe:lik-te:

I tell about it (future)

hay

how

dahungwho'-dung'

a long time ago

yo:w

off there

xwiyłq'it

Redwood Creek

yinuq

upstream

'aywin't'e:ne'

it happened

k'iłuxun-nehwa:n

sheep*

me:ya:diliwh

we were looking after, tending.

I'm going to tell now about what happened a long time ago when we were tending sheep way up on Redwood Creek.

hayah

there...

xutł'e'-e:-mił

in the middle of the night

ch'e'whiniłtsit

he (Ned) woke me up,

'a:whił-ch'ide:ne'

he said to me,

xwe:d-a:ng'

what is it

'a:de:ne:

you are saying

There, in the middle of the night, my husbanad woke me up and said, "What is it that you're saying?"

haya:ł

then

'a:de:ne'

I said,

do:-'una:ng'

"It's nothing,

k'inawhla:l

I was dreaming.

I said, "It's nothing; I was just dreaming.

k'inawhla:l

I was dreaming...

'a:whił-ch'ine:

that someone was saying something to me

minawhla:l

I was dreaming about that

xwe:di

what

'e:na:ng'

is it

digyun

here

'a:nt'e

you are doing?

I was just dreaming. I was dreaming that someone was saying to me: What are you doing here?

do:-'una:ng'

not at all

hay-de:di

this

ninis'a:n-ne'en

world (past)

nohq'it

on us

do:

not

xohsle'-te:

it exists (future).

This old... world of ours is coming to an end.

xo:'-q'i-heh

something, anything at all

'a:do:ng'

let someone say it!

Somebody should say something!

me:ky'ohłteh

sing (you people)!

You people should sing!

diywhe'eh

any (song) at all

k'itoh'ah

sing (you people)!"

You should sing something!

haya:ł

then

'ung'

it was

q'ut

right

ła'a:y-xw

at once

k'ite:sa:'aw

I started to sing.

And right away I started to sing.

de:-q'i

this way

'a:de:ne'

I said, sang*

This is what I sang: (SONG).

haya:ł

then

de:-q'ung-hit

afterwards...

ch'e:whsit

I woke up,

ch'e'whiniłtsit

he woke me up.

After that I woke up--he woke me up.

do:-tah

perhaps

de:sxa:n-tah

today or so (= one of these days)

k'e:diwh'a:

I doctor people

ming'ine:

it might have been,

do:

not

ch'e'whiniłtsit-ne'en-de'

he woke me up - (past) - if.

Perhaps I might have been doctoring one of these days, if he hadn't woken me up.

do:-tah

Perhaps

dungwho'

someone

xwe:diwh'a:

I doctor him

ming'ine:

it might have been,

do:-tah

perhaps

k'ite:t'aw

an Indian doctor

se:ling'

I have become

ming'ine:

it might have been

Perhaps I might have been doctoring someone, perhaps I mihgt have become an Indian doctor.