Written and Read by Peter Kalifornsky
from: A Dena’ina Legacy, K’tl’egh’i Sukdu. pp. 336-337.
edited by James Kari and Alan Boraas
Alaska Native Language Center: Fairbanks.
QUNSHI UQUCH’EL’ANI | Beluga hunting |
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1.Ts’iłq’a Kahtnu betnu qughuzdlent qunshi shegh qughilagh. | One time at the mouth of the Kenai River where the current flows, a beluga swam up to me. |
2.Ch’u beł k’danłtetl’. | And I shot it. |
3.Shegh qutuyghiłghel | It floated up by me |
4.ch’u naqanełtan. | and I brought it back to shore. |
5.Quht’ana shegh hnidatl’ | The people came to me |
6.ch’u quch’dghilu. | and we butchered it. |
7.Betsen ghinhdi ch’eghnałggen | We dried its meat |
8.ch’u bediłkidi ghinhdi ch’ełkuch. | and we rendered its blubber into oil. |
9.Tlegh ghinhdi dinunch’eznel. | We poured the oil into containers. |
10.Dukaq’ qughesht’a ch’qiluq. | We fastened the lids well. |
11.Heyi niłtu. | It was for winter. |