Maidu texts / by Roland B. Dixon.

  • Roland Burrage Dixon
Date:
1912
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Credit: Maidu texts / by Roland B. Dixon. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    are passed, ye will have finished ^rowin^; then ye shall be born, full-grown. There ye also shall have a country, and your country shall be one bearing a name, and ye too shall be named,” he said. “Ye shall have children; and when your children have grown larger, then, looking all over this country, ye must tell them about it, teach them about it, naming the country and places, showing them and naming them to your children. ^That is such and such a place, and that is such and such a mountain.’ So, when ye have caused them to learn this, teaching them, they shall understand even as ye do yourselves.” wosip^mbni dbwebisim pin kumTreni otsonYmoni dfbos- when passed keep growing many winters when gone over you will maaiiTano,” atsoha. AdoYkan kaanTano dbbospem have fully grown,” he said. So and you are one completely grown pukhnapem,” atsoi^am. “AmaMi mi befibo ko^do komT- one who shall be he said. “There you also country you born,” ankano,” atsobam. “MinTi koMom kan yako^pem mamT- shall have,” he said. “Your country and one having a one that name 5 pern. Ml beiTb yako^pem mama^ankano,” atsoha. “Amam shall be. You also one having a you shall be,” he said. “That name mabdiim te^toto kokibdom kaanTano. MinTi tehoto, man children having you are. Your children, teteTe toto^mbni uniiV koMo ko^do tsehediekoido yapai to- little bigger when children this country country looking about talking to dom amon^i ko^doi mak^paidom. Ambn i ko^dom yawidom. (them) then country teaching. Ihen country naming. Adom^ makpapaifiidom tefioto minTi yawfimapem,”atsoi am. So causing to be taught children your one who shall he said. teach name. lO “ ‘MoyakTpem koMofi kan mom moyakTpen yaman iiikan “ ''Such a name having country is that such a name having mountain is mo.’ Adon' kaan'kano mak'papaitini'mdni mak'itdom min Uiat.’ So you arc when causing to teach teaching )ou
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