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it’s me talking

nee wahanąk

my Hoocąk name is Shining Feather

wąąkšik hitʼe raašra mąąšųrukąnąpįkga hįįgaire

they said today I was going to speak Hoocąk

eegi hąąpteʔe eegi Hoocąk yaatʼekjene airera

I’m gonna talk about myself

waakikarakikjene

first: today it’s February, 5th

coonį hąąpteʔe (wii) wiira (hųųc) Hųųcwiroagnį Hųųcwicoonį, hųųcwiroagnį eegi hįwaʔųanąkwi eegi hąąpteʔe wiiwoikarapra saacą

the year is 2004

eegi mąąižąga jiiraakre hogihixete nųųp anąga hijoop

today it’s Wednesday

eegi hąąpteʔe hitaanįhą

yesterday was Wednesday, today it’s Thursday

xjanąre eegi hąąpteʔe hąąp hijoopahą

I was born on the fifth of July

eegi jaajaną jaajanąregi wįįrera wii wiira waaxocra_(wii) aire hejaną neegi wįįre eegi saacą eegi mąąžeežinąąka

I was born in a white-men’s town, they call it Galesville

eegi hacįįja wįįrera mąįxete ciinąk raašra Galesville aire

In midsummer my parents went to a gathering there

eegi tookiisaka eejašge stoohiisʼa eeja šʔaak wahaara hahiire

I wasn’t born on that day, but on the second one of the celebrations

eeja hąąp hąąke hąąp eeja herenį eeja hinųųpahągają eeja wįįre

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they say, I was born right in town

aire ciinąk ciieja wįįre

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in that town, there’s a meat market, the owners of the green-mill used to bring me things

eesge ciinąk eeja wanį horuwįkere anąga žige woorucopkereižą ee wažąšge hįganį hahiireže aire

they call that town Sintoroinka, that’s the Indian name of it

eesge ciinąk žee Sįtoroįka aire wąąkšik hitʼe raašra

that’s why they used to call me that as well

eesge heesgešge hįįgairešųnų

my mother belongs to the bear clan

eegi hiʔųnį haara hųųc hikikarac

her mother’s father belonged to the Thunder Clan

hiʔųnį hii eegi wakąja hikikaraciyą hiʔąc hii

her Hoocąk name was Rainbow Woman

eegi wąąkšik hitʼe raaš̌ ee hanįra Wiipamąkereįga higaire

that’s a Thunder Clan name

wakąja hikikarac raaš hiyą

there are a lot of brothers, men, she’s the only woman, all the others were older

eegi roohą kįįnųp wąąkra; eešąną hijąhįra hanąąc coowaaraire

I know a lot of uncles

roohą hitek haara yaaperes

I know them

wiyaaperesšąną

I don’t know some of the brothers

hąąke hotašge ee wakįįnųpra hąąke wawiperesnį; žee ee

there might have been a lot of them

roohąwišgųnį

Her mother belonged to the Bear Clan

eegi ee (hi)ʔųnįra hųųc hikikarac here

they called her Wihampi

ee Wiihąpįga higaire žeʔe

my mother’s father belonged to the Thunder Clan

eegi ee nąąnį eera hiʔąc haara wakąja hikikarac here

they called him Thunder(bird), she said

Wakąjaga higaire eeną

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My father belonged to the Warrior Clan

eegi hiʔąc haara hišge žeʔe Woonąǧire_Wąąkšikiyą here

his Indian name was Walking On Clouds

eegi wąąkšik hitʼe raašra Mąąxi Mąąnįga higaire

he belonged to the Warrior Clan

eegi Woonąǧire_Wąąkšik here

His father was called Striking Tree

eesge eegi ee hiʔącra ee hiʔącra Noojįga higaire

his mother, he was raised by his grandmother, her name was Fish, they said

eegi ee (hi)ʔųnįra eegi ee hikorokera ee xete hiire Hooʔapšucewįga higaire žeʔe

when the white people first came to this country, they gave them English names

eegi eesge hawaʔų ceek mąįxetera mąą eegi hajiiregi raašge wawokʼųire, mąįxete hitʼe raaš wookʼųire

whatever names they gave them they would write them down on paper

eesge eegiige hacįįja wagax raašra jaagu wiigairegišge wawagaxiregišge

he was raised by his grandmother, her name was Wo’apshujewi

eesge eeja jaagu ee hikorokera ee xete hige eesge Hooʔapšucewįga aanąka

Hoo’apshujewi they called her

Hoʔapšucewįga higaire

the white people gave him an English name, they used to call him David Trout

eesge mąįxete hitʼera raaš hiyą hokʼųire higaire David Trout higairešųnųsʼa žeʔe

but after a while they gave him a different name, they called him Little Soldier

nųnįge haak eeja hirarexjį raaš hijąhį wookʼųire Little Soldier wiigaire

I know that ever since then, that’s how they were

eesge heejaną jaajaixjį hipara žee yaaperes jaajaixjį žee žeegų here(i)re

my mother and my father, both of them, come form town nearby of Black River Falls, that’s where they were born, she said

eegi hinųpike hiʔųnį haara hiʔąc haara Nįįoxawanį eeja aašgeįk hegų eeja ciinąk ąącnįįsge eejašge eeja hereire hereire žeʔe

we went over to where my mother used to live

eegi nąąnį eera nįge ciirešųnųra eeja haga hahiwira