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My Indian name is Hox\u’rucmanįįga.

Wąąkšik hitʼe raašra Hoxurucmąąnįga hįįgaire.

Once when I was young we went to pick cherries.

Hegų hagoreižą hįkukuk hanįharegi nąąpak hogihira (ho)watekjanawi.

My mother, still living, said we would go there.

Heesge nąąnį eera nąąnį eerašąną (nįgiʔąp) no nįįʔąpnąkšąną eegi heesge eeja (ho)wataawi.

We had no driver, one of our male relatives, one of our older brothers, we got him to drive.

Hira(w)ahasrašge cųųšgųnį nųnįge wąąk (wąąk) wažą_hokį waanįnįižą žeʔe hiira hicito haara hižą hirawahas gigi anąga ee howataawi.

Past Green Bay we went for two or three Sundays.

<Green> Green Bay sąikeja hahi eeja eeja Haramehi_hąąp nųųpahąxjį nįįsge eeja hahi haʔųwigųnį or taanįhą.

We got up early in the morning, this white man who owned the land,

Hąįnįgi xapgeįk hakika(w)aʔųwi anąga hegų mąįxeteižą mąąnąka ee hanį

there we picked cherries (with a cherry bucket).

nąąpak hožu žeesge eeja peehi waaʔųwiną.

Early in the morning the wagon would come by and each of us would all take one of those pails.

Hąįnįgi hąįnįxjįk hija haʔų reex hirarutiižą ruti hii anąga eeja reexra jagu gallon pail reexižą heesge hanąąc hižąšąną tuuswi anąga.

When we filled them, we would take the pails back to the wagon that brought them and that man used to write it down.

Žee hoixjį hoixjį wahaawregi žige hiraruti hacįįja reexra watuswigi eeja haakja hanį hagiwi wąąkjeega hija wagaxšųnų.

He put our name down and how many we picked he used to write down.

Jaanąga peehi raaš hija (h)įgitʼųp jaanąga peehi hija wagaxšųnų.

We helped each other.

Žeegų haawi anąga hakiijire waaʔųwį hegų.

Today those things they are able to can or freeze them and that’s the way we buy them, it wasn’t that way.

Hąąpteʔe hegų nįge wažą heesge wažągašge mąąskook eeja woožu anąga nįgešge jaasge hįyaruwį anąga hąąke heesganį.

We were trying to make money that’s why we would race.

Žeegu žuura kiikʼų nąąʔį waʔųajawi heesge (he)gų hakipanų haʔųwįšųnų.

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One time I fell out of a tree.

Hagoreižą nąą eeja hįšipre.

They were all over the ground and I couldn’t pick them all.

Hanąąc mąija šiipre hąąke peehi tuuxuruknį.

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My mom scolded me.

Nąąnį eera nąąchisgi.

We used to climb the trees and pick them.

Nąąti haʔųwi anąga žeesge peehi waaʔųwišųnų.

And then when we were finished and we were going to come back the white man payed my mother the money for all that we picked.

Hegų anąga eegi waakišipwira kuukjana(w)ira wareįka nąąnį eera žuura hiruwe gigi jaanąga reexra peehi hija ųanįha(w)i.

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That was mother’s money.

Nąąnį eera ee žuuranąka ee (h)anį.

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And then we came back, it was the summer time, and then in the fall I did it (again) along with my mother.

Eeja anąga hige eeja guuwi eegi tookregi waaʔųaja(w)i hahi eeja cąąnįregi hige haʔųwi nąąnį eera hakaraikižu haʔų.

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my younger sister and my mother, we would pick cranberries, wherever they finished raking.

Hicąk haara hakaraikižu nąąnį eera, eegi hoocąke peehiwi hacįįja wiigihiʔųra rušją anąga.

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There the cranberry boss, if we like to pick there,

Eeja žee hoocąke hoocąke hirukąną haipį eeja hisge hapehi anąga,

he would buy them back.

eegiže haakja kuruwįną.

We used to pick all the fallen ones.

Hanąąc šiiprairege žeesge peehi waaʔųwišųnų <>

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We used to put them in a bushel box.

Hegų bushel box heesge heesge eeja waažuwišųnų.

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And then in the evening when we were finished if we filled a box we didn’t carry the boxes, we left them there, in the evening the whiteman would come by and pick them up and they were paying us.

Hegų hoxjąnąregi tuušją(w)iregi hįyaha kookra hoixjį haawi hegų <> hegų hąąke kookra tuuʔą(w)inį hegų eeja nąk wahaa(w)i wareįka tuušjąiga wakurusšųnų hiruwe_hįgigiirawišųnų.

We did it that way.

Žeegų haawiga.