Great-Grandmother's House
told by Verdena Parker
July 25, 2011
Tish-Tang-Ah-Ding, Hoopa Valley, California
Transcribed by Ramón Escamilla
- Okay
- xontah
- house
- xontah
- house
- hayah
- there
- me'
- in it
- xwunchwing
- her mother
- And this is the place where my grandmother's mother used to live, in the house that was here originally, this one was built over and then it's been kind of tore up again.
- haya:ł
- [and then]
- digyung
- here
- xo'ji
- real
- no:na:ya'ning'un-ne'ing
- they put it back
- haya:ł
- and then
- dungwho'owh
- someone
- 'a:na'law-e:-xola:n
- it looks like they did it to it again
- haya:ł
- [and then]
- ya'wilchwil
- young men
- digyun
- here
- me'
- in it
- ya:xoke'iwun'-ne'in
- they used to sleep
- This one right here was the sweathouse, and that's probably where the old man that I was talking about that was killed, he probably lived in there at night, because only the boys and men slept in the
- ta:kiwh
- sweathouse
- not in the house.
- haya:ł
- so
- yehch'itindil
- they would go in
- ya'k'e'iya'n
- they would eat
- k'e:ya'ułna'
- they cooked
- xontah
- house
- me'
- in it
- What else you want me to tell about it? I guess that's it.
- So the men folks were only allowed to come in the house to eat, because the women were cooking in there.