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it is your body

roora harakašįnį

(you) respect it

rakaraišʔak

if something you use isn’t any good, don’t use it, she said

hąąke ųųsge jaagura hanąąc jaagu hąąke pįįnįgi hišʔų hiʔų hišʔųnįną ee

you have to look at things when you’re going that way, if you think something isn’t good, don’t do it

hąąke hirasa horakoroǧoicge heesge gaagų šeregi ke jaagura hanąąc hąąke hii ke pįįnį hiraregi ke šʔųųnįgi

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you’re going to help yourself

nee rakijišere wašʔųkjene

nowadays they do a lot of things differently

eegi hąąpteʔe hegųnegi wažąra roohąxjį hiją hijąhiire waʔųnąk

they’re getting to me like white people, I see them

mąįxete (hową) howąknįįsge here haireną waaca waacaaje

once in a while the Indians, they used to come from over there

heesge hąąke ųųsge hagairašge hegų wąąkšik gooja howaji ųirešųnųną

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the Hoocąk used to be teachers, but they have forgotten a lot of it

Hoocąk woogųs wagigųs hanįhairera hegų horoohąra wakikųnųnįire

today, they like the fast teachings instead, that’s why they live that way instead

hąąpteʔe hegų jaasge saagranąąkre heesge cąą gipįiregi eesge hegų heesge cąą wąąkšik įįre

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a lot of our young Indians, they don’t know what the old people did

heesge wąąkšik wacek hįwaanįwira hegųnegi hegų roohąxjį hąąke šʔaakra jaasge hiirešųnųra hipereshiranį

they’ve forgotten a lot of things

wažąra roohąxjį wakikųnųnįire

today things are fast

hegų hąąpteʔe wažąra saagraire

the Indians are gready, they don’t know that, but that’s the way things are, that’s what they think

heesge nįįšge eeja wąąkšik įįre waʔųnąąkre heesge hąąke hiperesnį waʔų heesge heesgege waʔųnąkųnį hire waʔųnąąk

for that reason I tell back to them how they used to live a long time ago

heesge hawaʔų jaasge sʼiireją wąąkšik įįrešųnųną eegi haakja woogirak

some people think it would be good, if we’d tell them

hįwoogirakwigi pįįną hota heesge hiraire

if we’re going to be Hoocąk, we should be the way they’ve taught us

heesge Hoocąk hinįkjanawigiži jaasge wąąkšik hįʔewira wąągagigųs hajiirawira

we shouldn’t overlook it

hąąke tee wanųnį ųiranį

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we shouldn’t over look it

hąąke wanųnį hįʔųwinį

we tell it to these young ones

kuuknąąkre hįwoogirakwianąga

some of the Hoocąk used to be Wisconsinites, but when they were removed, they took them far away to Nebraska

eegiige hegųnegišge Hoocąk Waaziijaaci hige hotašge Waaziijaaci hiiranįhera jaagu mąąruha waanįirera heesge Nįįšoceeja hipa waanįahiire

but they are originally from here

hegų howaahi waʔųnąąk nųnįge

some of them are over there

eeja hota ųųną

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even then, they were also that way

rašge hegų žige heesgaire

we’re in this area here

eesge tee tee mąą eegi hįʔųajawi ųųnąąkre

it would be good, if we’d teach them more

hiraicera heesge hįwagigųswigi pįįnąną

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it would be goot to teach them back our language, so we don’t lose it

haakja hoitʼera hąąke hįkaraigąšwinįgi pįįnąną

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then again rules they used to say, we could teach them how they used to be

eegiige wooʔehi jaagu airešųnųną hige heesge nįįsge hisgeranįsge

they say it’s good when we tell them and if they do it that way, that’s why they say it’s good

hįwoogirakwigi heesge hiiregi jaasganą heesge pįį wagaire

I think today there are a lot of changes

yaare nee eegi wažąra roohą hąąpteʔe hikirucą

I started to worry about, think about the clanship and the relatives

wažą_hokįnąšge woikiikarac_šge eesge nąącge_wooci (haji) hajiikere (haji) yaarajiikere

I have six grandchildren

teʔegają nee waaʔųnąkre hakogiją ra hakewe hanį eegi hakewe hanįną