Niwakashææ'ö 01.08

01.08.01

When I was three we moved to Florida.

• së -- three
• níyô -- that many
• thsiwakushiya'kö -- when I reached that age
• Teka'nötötúnö'kwá -- to Florida
• wa'akwahtêti' -- we moved

01.08.02

I think my mother got a teaching job there.

• ne'hu -- there
• íwí -- I think
• yötyônyani -- she teaches, she's a teacher
• ne nu'yë -- my mother

01.08.03

When we came back the next summer, my grandmother asked me how old I was and I said four.

• thsisa'akwahtêti' -- we when moved back
• skát -- one
• hesakááhu' -- year passed again
• niyukëhís -- the length of the summer
• wa'ökáôtô' -- she asked me
• n-aksút -- my grandmother
• tú -- how many
• níyô -- that many
• nisaushiya'kö -- how old you are
• ne' -- grammatical particle
• wai -- indeed
• kéí -- four
• u'ki' -- I said

01.08.04

She led me by the hand to where my cousins were playing.

• ne' -- grammatical particle
• ökahtsanöwö'khö' -- she took me by the hand
• ökeshaaíne' -- she led me
• he hënötkánye'skwa' -- to where they were playing
• ne teyakwatênôté' -- my cousins
• akwææ'sé' -- my cousins
• khu -- and

01.08.05

She had turned a flower-bed into a sandbox.

• wa'ötukwat -- she dug
• u'nehsa' -- sand
• tyawêôni -- flowers grow there; flower-bed

01.08.06

We were all very impressed.

• akwakwékö -- all of us
• nae -- indeed
• kaëkwa -- very
• wa'ökwaiwakwëníyu's -- we were impressed

01.08.07

Sharon and Butch kept reminding us younger ones that our grandmother had given up her flower bed for us.

• sa'ökhiyëtestát -- they reminded us again
• akwásthö -- us young ones
• ne' -- grammatical particle
• n-aksút -- my grandmother
• wa'ötahtakwahtë' -- she gave it up
• ne tyawêôni -- the flower bed
• tyakwatkánye's -- we play there

01.08.08

We were very careful not to dig down as far as the black dirt.

• akwashae' -- we're careful
• ëkêôk -- lest; so as not to
• ëyökyu'kwát -- we will dig
• uehtatsi -- black dirt