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Sutdu shnugheł qeynuqelnek. |
| They would tell stories in my presence. |
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Htsast'a kił ghu qełah ch'q'u qevuzha'ina q'u hqełdih. |
| Long ago, as the boys were growing up, they would train their nephews. |
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Tik'teh veł nuqudeł qevuzha'ina q'u hqełdih, |
| They would go out in the woods with him that they would train him, |
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t'anch'q'u shtunqedał niqeła. Iy sutdu'a shi. Qeyghu shnuqulnegi. Iy shi gu vek'eyeshchexi. |
| everything concerning hunting. This is such a story. They told me about this. This is what I wrote about it. |
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Veł qitghelnex. |
| I will read it. |
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Kił Ch'qinaghiłnik'en Sutdu'a |
| The Story of the Stupid Boy |
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Ts'iłt'an qut'ana ts'iłt'an qut'an tutazyu. |
| One man, one man went out (in the woods). |
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Ve'u eła vuzha ku'u qilan. |
| He had with him his wife and his nephew too. |
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Yen kił gunenhdi ch'qinaghiłnik'. |
| That boy was inept. |
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Vez'a gun yeqech' yeqełdih hq'u nch'u qeldik. Nch'u qeldik. |
| His uncle would teach him but he would not learn. He could not learn. |
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[Vez'a gun] ał nini'un. |
| [His uncle] he set a deadfall trap. |
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Nuytelquxch'q'u nuqeynil'ix hq'u nch'u chik'hdełnil. |
| Every day they would check it, but they did not kill anything. |
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Kiq'u q'ut'un kił gun, "Zhala, ał ghini nunghel'an ni." |
| Another morning, that young boy says, "Uncle, let me check that trap." |
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"Aa'," yełni. |
| "Yes," he says to him. |
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"Nch'u va k'iłkeł da nda'ich'q'u tgheshlił?" |
| "If nothing is trapped in it, what should I do?" |
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Vez'a gun, "Nt'i ał chen ghini va tghicheł," yełni. |
| His uncle says to him, "Well, you grab that trap bait." |
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Kił gun yeh tazyu ch'u ał ghini yegh nu'idyu. |
| The boy went there and he went back by that deadfall trap. |
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Ał chen ghini yighetneq ch'u yanichet. |
| He grabbed that trap bait and he pulled it. |
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Udiq'u chiqudalyuq. |
| He killed himself. |
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Nughiłghatl'i eła |
| It got dark and |
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nch'u nu'idyul. |
| he had not returned. |
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Nch'u nu'idyul. Vach'ala gunen, "Nda eł dinin din?" |
| He had not returned. His auntie [said], "What has happened to him?" |
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Tałqun idi'eła yeh nutasdyu. |
| The next day he went back there. |
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Ał ghini yegh nu'idyu eła yet'e ch'andal'ats. |
| He went back by that trap and some legs were sticking out from under it. |
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Ał ghini yegh degheydghilu ha kił kił yighetneq ch'u chench’ yeh ch'eyiłt'eq'. |
| He took apart the deadfall trap and the boy, he grabbed the boy and tossed him down toward the stream. |
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"Nch'qinaghiłnik'a shughu chindałyuggi," yełni. |
| "Your stupidity is what has killed you," he said to him. |