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Text: Graves at Tish-Tang-Ah-Ding

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Graves at Tish-Tang-Ah-Ding
told by Verdena Parker
July 25, 2011
Tish-Tang-Ah-Ding, Hoopa Valley, California
Transcribed by Ramón Escamilla

Okay
hay de:di
this right here
mino:k'is'a:n
it's sticking out
na:xonchwe'n
it's ugly
'isq'o:ts'
blackberries
wha:ne:
[only]
This right here, that is so thick and everything, blackberries.


Okay, there's a lot of debris sticking out of the ground here, it's ugly, just blackberries.
hayah
there
do'ng
[it is]
'aht'ing
all
ya:xowichway
they are buried


They are all buried there.
haya:ł
and then
hay
that
whe: whichwo:-ne'ing
used-to-be my grandmother
xwunchwin-ne'ing
used-to-be her mother
hayah
there
xowichwa:
she is buried


And my grandmother's mother (both now deceased) is buried there.
haya:ł
[and then]
hayi xota'-tah-ne'in
also her father
na:yima:n-ding
beside that
xok'isdiya:n'
their elders
hayi-ne'ing
[that used-to-be]
'aht'ing
all
hayah
there
ya:xowichway
they are buried
hay
that
digyun
right here
ya:xowidwa:n
they were murdered
xowh do'n
I guess
me:lah
some of them
hayah
there
ya:xowichwa:-ne'in
they were buried
haya:ł
[and then]
xowh do'n
I guess
me:lah 'e'n
some of them
na:na:ła'-ch'in'
somewhere else
na:ya'xotehslay
they took them


And her father also, beside that, their elders, those now deceased are buried there. And all the ones that were murdered here, I guess some of them were buried there. I guess they took some of them to a different place.
So all the people that were killed here, some of them are also buried in there.


And I think maybe some of them, they put into some of these indentations.
yineh
underground
xontah
house
chwa:-q'ide'
underground part
me'
in it
no:na:ya'xonilay
they laid them down
mił
with it
na:ya'xowinchway
they buried them


They laid the bodies down in the underground part of the house and buried them with it.
Those were houses.


And some of the people they put into the houses and laid them in there and covered them over with dirt.


haya:ł q'ut
[and then]
hayi-xw wha:ne:
that's all


That's all.
That's all.


So they buried them over, so some of the indentations around here, there's, I think I call six, counted six or seven here that one time I was down here when it was clean.



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