Niwakashææ'ö 01.18

01.18.01

Another native family lived on the next street.

• ne' -- grammatical particle
• ne hënökwe'ôwe -- native people
• hëni'tyôtak -- they used to live
• ne úya' -- the other
• úáte' -- street
• tuskë -- near
• ne ökwanöhsút -- our house

01.18.02

I could go through the woods straight over to the next street and come out at their house.

• wa'ukwenyôôk -- it was continuously possible
• kahatakô -- in the woods
• u'katháíne' kës -- I went frequently
• áákyö' -- I might arrive
• héôwe -- where
• thatinökek -- they used to live there

01.18.03

They were the only neighbors my parents were friends with.

• ne' -- grammatical particle
• ne nu'yë -- my mother
• ne ha'ni -- my father
• khu -- and
• hunötéú' -- they're friends
• ne auská'a -- the only
• ne huikê -- this
• hënökw'öweshö'ö -- native folks
• akwanöke' -- we live (there)

01.18.04

They were Choctaw and knew Southern cooking.

• ne' -- grammatical particle
• n-atinenö'kéúnö' -- southern folk
• kayásö -- it's called
• ne' -- grammatical particle
• hatiyëö's -- they know how
• khu -- and
• ne kanenö'kékhá' -- southern style
• yekhôni -- they cook

01.18.05

I learned to eat turnip and collard greens with skillet-made cornbread at their house.

• ne' -- grammatical particle
• ne thutinöhsút -- their house there
• ökeka'ha -- I got to like to eat it
• ne unëhta'shö'ö -- leaves, greens
• khu -- and
• ne kakaehtëhtö -- cornbread
• kaahkwakii'tá' -- fried bread

01.18.06

They just had one boy, like us.

• shaya'tát -- him alone, by himself, one male
• shô -- just
• hutiksa'táyë' -- they have a child
• he niyu'tê -- like
• n-í' -- us

01.18.07

Kenny was older than I, but not by more than three or four years.

• ne' -- grammatical particle
• ne -- grammatical particle
• aöhö'ö -- more
• hakëhtsi -- he's old
• he nikya'tu'tê -- than me
• n-í'a -- I, me
• ne' -- grammatical particle
• shô -- just
• së -- three
• ëkí -- or
• kéí -- four
• niyushæké -- that many years

01.18.08

He was such a big grown-up thing, I thought, at the age of seven or eight.

• akwas -- very
• huwánë -- he's big
• wihiak -- I thought
• tsátak -- seven
• ëkí -- or
• teknyô -- eight
• thsiaushiya'kö -- when he reached that age

01.18.09

He was deaf.

• tea'swékö -- he's deaf
• huikê -- this

01.18.10

One day I heard my parents talking with Kenny's parents about religion.

• ne' -- grammatical particle
• nö'ôwë -- it happened
• u'káôk -- I heard
• ne' -- grammatical particle
• ne nu'yë -- my mother
• ne ha'ni -- my father
• khu -- and
• hutíthá' -- they're talking
• niutíwakwëniyustö -- religion
• ne -- grammatical particle
• hunu'ë -- his mother
• hu'ni -- his father
• khu -- and

01.18.11

Afterward I heard my parents talking about it.

• ne' -- grammatical particle
• nö'kê' -- behind, afterward
• ahsö' -- still
• u'káôk -- I heard
• ne' -- grammatical particle
• ne nu'yë -- mother
• ne ha'ni -- father
• khu -- and
• hutíthá' -- they're talking

01.18.12

Soon Kenny and his family moved away to Waco to wait for Jesus to come.

• ne' -- grammatical particle
• tsikwas -- soon
• waënöhtêti' -- they moved away
• ne Wacokwá -- to, toward Waco
• heunehtö -- they went over there
• ne'hu -- there
• hunënökeæhtö -- they waited
• ësháyö' -- he will come back
• ne Thsakaöhétas -- Jesus.

01.18.13

But they came back long before the White people came and killed everybody there.

• ne' kwá he -- but
• saënöhkét -- they came back
• káhu' nö'wôti -- before
• waënö'wêthu' -- they killed, they committed killings
• ne hatínyö'ö -- the White people