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002 Zuboff R - Mosquito - Translation.txt
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{Number = 002}
{Type = Translation}
{Title = Táaxʼaa / Mosquito}
{Author = Shaadaaxʼ / Robert Zuboff}
{Clan = Deisheetaan, Kaaḵáakʼw Hít; Daḵlʼaweidí yádi}
{Source = D&D 1987:72–81}
{Translator = Ḵeixwnéi / Nora Marks Dauenhauer}
{Page = 73}
1 It was
2 in this boat of mine,
3 it was called “Guide,”
4 I would travel around in it,
5 seining.
6 Well,
7 my name
8 in Tlingit
9 is Shaadaaxʼ.
10 It was
11 because of my name
12 Geetwéin called me over.
13 The one of long ago,
14 he died long ago.
15 I was a young man.
16 From the time I was a young man
17 I had a seine boat.
18 I had
19 a nineteen hundred and six model,
20 from when they first came out.
21 I had
22 two of these big boats.
23 The last one
24 I gave to my son.
25 But he wrecked it
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26 He wrecked the boat,
27 the same one I used to go around in.
28 Then, knowing what my name was,
29 Geetwéin said to me:
30 “I would like very much to explain to you
31 this name of yours.”
32 We were living there
33 in the Interior.
34 Our life there
35 was so hard.
36 The salmon.
37 From the ocean
38 they would come up for us to eat.
39 The salmon.
40 And these how good they tasted to us,
41 the salmon.
42 It was very
43 hard
44 to live in the Interior.
45 It was so hard
46 the people
47 ate each other.
48 There were cannibals
49 at that time.
50 That was
51 what we would tell about
52 when we migrated to the coast.
53 What we would tell about.
54 What we would still tell about.
55 There was
56 this one
57 family whose food
58 was getting scarce.
59 Then one of them
60 went hunting
61 for something he could kill.
62 When he didn’t come back down
63 his younger brother went to search for him.
64 Then he
65 didn’t come back down either.
66 When he didn’t come back down
67 the youngest one,
68 maybe he was seventeen years old,
{Page = 77}
69 maybe eighteen years old,
70 the youngest one,
71 was crying as he kept on searching for his older brothers.
72 Inland between the mountains
73 when he reached there he saw it was the man.
74 He immediately knew
75 it was a cannibal.
76 It was coming toward him. He couldn’t run from it. He was like a frozen thing. It was fear that did this to him.
77 When it came near him it struck him on the head,
78 the cannibal struck him on the head.
79 He fell,
80 he fell there.
81 How good the cannibal felt.
82 It picked him up from there, that young man
83 and put him into a sack
84 into a sack.
85 Then it packed him on its back
86 to its territory
87 to where its house was standing.
88 Outside
89 out by the entrance it removed
90 its pack.
91 The cannibal went inside
92 inside its home.
93 But the young man
94 was inside the pack.
95 He was trying to get out of it.
96 He broke those ties,
97 small strings of spruce roots tying the pack.
98 When he came out
99 he got the cannibal’s club.
100 He waited where it was going to come out.
101 As it stuck its head out, he struck it.
102 He struck it again.
103 He struck it again.
104 He struck it again.
105 He said,
106 “I know I killed this cannibal.
107 But it did a painful thing to me.
108 It killed two of my older brothers.
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109 What more can I do to make it feel more pain?
110 Maybe it will be better
111 if I build a fire under him, and burn him up.”
112 So just like that
113 when he built a fire,
114 he pulled him into it,
115 he pulled the cannibal
116 into the fire.
117 When only the ashes were left,
118 when he couldn’t make up his mind, he thought,
119 “What more can I do to the cannibal’s ashes?”
120 And while he couldn’t make up his mind, he blew on it,
121 he blew on the cannibal’s ashes.
122 They went into the air,
123 they became mosquitos.
124 That’s why mosquitos
125 when they bite someone,
126 hurt you bad, they’re still the cannibal; even today.
127 When it can’t do this
128 it tries to take all the blood from a person.
129 That’s what happened.
130 The Lord above created
131 this world.
132 He loved us very much,
133 us in this world.
134 Mosquitos
135 were created by the world.
136 That is why
137 there is a story
138 about it, when we were living in Teslin,
139 Teslin.
140 It’s beside the big lake.
141 The place
142 is called
143 Caribou Cross,
144 the place where animals cross.
145 Right near it is called Teslin.
146 There are many people there,
147 we are many.
148 We are still there.
149 They speak our language.
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150 This is how I’ll end it.
151 And now
152 I will tell stories
153 to the children
154 in English.