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You can't try to [do] something differently [from traditional custom].

heihoowuneyeiniini cei'soo' heeyouhuu.

Something is just laid down [as an offering?].

He'ii3ou'u niibi'ceenenP ciineni',

But today is will be proper, people will learn things properly.

'oh heetbebiisiini hiiwuuP hiiwoonhehe', heetbebiisineyei3ootiini'.

Something will be properly known, the way it is.

Heetbebii3e'inoni' he'ii3ou'u neenei3oo'.

It is still, that's the way it is.

NiinosouP ne'nee'eesoo'.

And these children how they were taught here around, in 1962, one hundred sixty, X+7,

Nonoh 'oh nuhu' tei'yoonoh'o' niisineyei3eihei3i' huut bebene, in 1962 beteetosoo' cebiini niitootosoo' niitooP niitootoxuuni',

That's when I learned that children were to be taken away from the reservation here [to be raised or adopted out elsewhere].

Ne'nii'ce3i3e'inowoo tei'yoonoh'o tih'etniice3ixohoe3i' huut.

They were going to teach them every day.

heetniineyei3eihei3i' heeyowuusi'.

Then [afterwards] they were brought back here.

Ne'nii'ce'no'xoheihi3i'.

And there (where they were taken) they were going to be cooked for, and fed.

Noh huu3e' ne'nii'beiP bii3wooneihi3i' nuhu', nooxobeihi3i'.

It was [supposed to be] good, but we had to work for quite a long time [to get them back?].

Niini'iini, 'oh ceniici3oxuuheihino'.

And today everything is really different.

'oh noh hiiwoonhehe', 'oh henee3neebeiscei'soo'.

It's like it's not...

Hoowuuni wootii

Somehow [we] will try to do things properly.

toonheetneyei3bebiisiini heeyoP heeyouhuu.

But this White man is still watching over us.

'oh noosounoonoyoohobeino' nehe' nih'oo3oo.

He is still telling us all the ways we're supposed to live.

NoosoubeebebiisP heenei'towuuneino' toonheesiine'etiino'.

It's like here it is, how it is lying there, this new.... the whites call this a barometer, barometer,

Wootii niiyou heneinootee' nuhu' woonP nih'oo3ou'u ni'iitou'u nuhu' barometer, barometer,

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In our daily lives, to our future, that's what this white man says.

In our daily lives, to our future, nee'eesinihiit nehe' nih'oo3oo.

And [the white man] wants to... sometime he will give us something that seems good [to tempt or co-opt us further].

Noh beetP toonheetniini ni'P ni'iini hoonoko'owuuneino' he'ii3ou'u.

That's how he will keep treating us.

Heetnosounee'eesiheino'.

(But) now the Arapaho can live on his own.

Woow heetniiP niiheniine'etiit nehe' hinono'ei.

He knows things, he is wise.

Hee'iyeit, hee'eiht.

He is strong.

Nono'oteiht.

It should be that way again (the Arapaho way).

Heebeexce'nee'eesoo.

And when [the Whites offer] some new thing again...that's what [the old people] said to each other, it's not good.

'oh nuhu' tohuuP kookon... nee'eeneesinihii3eti3i', hoowuni'oo.

The thing these white people taught us, we've just been doing it that way (without reflecting).

Nenee' nehe' nih'oo3oo nih'iisiixoohoo3iheino', noh nee'eestoono'.

There is a story about the trickster, when it was like that, when he was traveling downstream one time,

Hoo3itoo heentou' nehe' nih'oo3oo tihnee'eesoo' hoowuniihiseehek,

when he did like that: that's how we're living today.

tihnee'eeneestoohok: nenee'eesiine'etiino' woow.

Or may now there are a lot of Arapahos who don't know these stories.

wo'ei3 nooxeihi' woow wonoo3ee3i' hinono'eino' hoowoe'inowuu nuhu' hoo3itoono.

Now things are going to decline/die out.

Woow heetnooP neeneenono'ou'u.

Okay.

wohei.

Okay.

Wohei.

Okay.

Okay.