Hotcâk Text -- The Woman who Turned into a Walnut Tree

Hotcâk-English Text -- The Woman who Became a Walnut Tree

English Translation

Égi	hagoréjâ	édja	uañkcígere	tcínâñk	kanúñkgicegi.	Édja	tcâ naínegi
And	at one time	there	men	town	they had.	There	in the fall

tcágera	haz?íreregi	hinuñgíjâ	tcak	rutcgúni	gíji	mâcdjâ´
walnut	when they ripened	a woman	walnut	ate	and so	mighty

gip?eîcgúni	rucdjénâ	ruc'akcgúni	gigá.	Hakiregácge	hañké	'unis'ácguni.
liked it	she was through	she would not	sell.	There they went	not	she would come.

Jégû	'úzañk'û	édja	hinúñgenañka	húra	nânédjâ	inecgúni.
And so	keeping	there	the woman	her legs	tree-roots	they became.

Gigítcgis	nâínegi	rucágirecgùni	égi	jégû	nâtcágu	xedexdjî´dje
They cut them for her	when they tried to	they could not	and	then	walnut tree	a big one it was

heréje	aírenâ.	Hinúñgenañka	nâ	î´je	aírenâ.	Jénúñga.
she became	it is said.	The woman	tree	became	it is said.	[The end]

English Translation

Source:

"Tale of the Woman who Became a Walnut," in Paul Radin, Notebooks, Winnebago III, #11a, Freeman #3892 (Philadelphia: American Philosophical Society) 70-72 (140a -140 b).