Hocąk Text — The Twins Visit Their Father's Village, Version 3

narrated (or collected) by Sam Blowsnake
This text was contained in a notebook labled "Texts by Sam Blowsnake". However, this version is very different from Sam Blowsnake's (here given as Version 1), which Radin published in connection with the Twins Cycle. It may be that the text is "by" Sam Blowsnake only in the sense that he collected it from one of the elders some time ago, a practice he pursued frequently for Paul Radin ca. 1912.

Susman's interlinear is often inconsistent with her free translation, so I have selected the translation that is the more standard of the two. I have also dropped her format of analysing every affix used in an expression.

English Translation

 

p. 42 —
"Hąhą́
Warorá,
hi’ącįhira
žecaíxcį
hįkíšcákcèną."
"Now
[Flesh,]
our father
after this much time
let us go to see."

 

p. 43 —
’Eki
hac’ícą
hi’ą́c’hirera
ų́ceki
’éca
hahíreže.
’Éki
And
where
their father
where he was
there
they arrived.
Then

 

 

c’inákipáija
hakíraki,
hi’ą́c
hírera
hiwą́xireže.
at the edge of the village
when they got to,
father
their
they asked.

 

 

Hižą́
weže,
"Hųkra
wakik’ų́nį
yaréža."
One
he said,
"The chief
he probably means
I think."

 

 

Hižą́
hico
nuwúkše.
K’eníwis’i[regi?]
hiské
One
there
he ran over.
Not long after
someone

 

 

hacíreže.
Wak’ižu
hak’araíre.
they came.
With them
they went.

 

 

p. 44 —
C’inákok’isákeca
c’isérecicak’i
’éca
waniakíreže.
In the center of the village
longhouse
there
[they were taken.]

 

 

Hi’ą́c
hirera
’éca
’ųnákšaną.
Hųkra
Father
their
there
he was.
The chief

 

 

’e
herenąkšana.
’Éske
hoc’íc’ínįkną́kre
húknikc`ąkra
he
he was.
So
the boys
chief's sons

 

 

p. 45 —
herereže.
Stok’íranaka
warúc’xéte
’ų́ireže.
Wawak’íc’aire,
they were.
They got together and
big feast
[they had.]
They ate together with them,

 

 

c’inákra
haną́c.
’Éki
hąk’é
s’ixcį́
the village
whole.
Then
not
very long

 

 

hicá
’ųíranįže.
Hi’ą́c
hírera
wakaireže,
there
they were not.
Father
their
they said to him,

 

 

"Nįké
wawak’érekcànahawiną.
Hikų́
hakóréžą
"Someplace
we are going out.
Again
sometime

 

 

p. 46 —
žiké
yaráwiki
hanįc’ák’cànaháwiną."
’Éki
again
when we thought
we would see you."
And

 

 

hakcá
nįná
hokitą́piránaka
harek’ų́
hak’araíranaka
back
the waters
they got to and
downstream
they went back and

 

 

nį
hoc’ak’iwąk’e
xeteížą
’éca
xéžą
waters
crotched
a big one
there
a hill

 

 

p. 47 —
miną́k’i.
’Éca
hakíreže.
Žecą́ną.
it sat.
There
they arrived.
That's the end.

 

Source:

Amelia Susman, Notebooks (Philadelphia: American Philosophical Society, Aug. 30 - Oct. 10, 1938) Book 3.42-47.