HAIDA TEXT (SKIDEGATE DIALECT) 



A Raid on the Bella Coola by the People of Ninstints and 



Kaisun 



Qa'isun ga GrA'nxet xa'idAgai^ lu gastA'nsin^ gu gadA'ii^ 



Kaisun at Ninstints people canoes four at in company 



with themselves 



l! qa'idoxalgAfi * Lui'sLlxagAn.^ Gie'nhao^ lu gastA'nsin gu 



they to ask to go to fight came by canoe. And then canoes four at 



tla'ogAn^ l! i'djini.^ Ga'iLuhao" l! Luda'ogAni^" stA Lilgl'mi" 



together they went At that time they went across after Bentinckarm 



(lit., were). 



gei l! Luisda'ltcIigAn.^- Gie'nhao ga'lxua" tla'odjigai" La'xa^^ 



into they . went in by canoe. And then during the the fort opposite 



night 



l! Luisda'ltcligAni. Gie'nhao sLlin" ga ga naxanda'yagAn " 



they went in by canoe. And then the inlet in some had been camping 



xA'ngustAi« l! tc!itxrdAni.i» Gu'hao^" Amai'kuns klo'dageidAn.^^ 



from in front them started to fire on. Right there Amaikuns was killed. 



Gayi'ns I'siii l! tcIitLl'dagAn.^^ Qoya' I'sin l! tcIitLi'dagAn. 



Floating too they wounded. Beloved too they wounded. 



La'hao^" l! suga sqa'djigAn. Ga'igu^^ ga stiii l! 



He them among was a brave man. There some two they 



'Gii'nici was the name of a cape close to the southern end of the Queen Charlotte islands, though, accord- 

 ing to Dr. C. F. Newcombe, it is not identical with the Cape St. James of the charts. The Haida on this 

 part of the islands received their name from it. -gai is the connective. 



'ja- prefix indicating shape; st a' nsln four. 



^gadO' AROUND + the possessive suffix -Afi (§ 28.4) (literally, around themselves). 



*qa'id6 to go to war; -xal the auxiliary to ask(§ 18.7); -gAii the continuative suffix (§ 24.1). 



6 Lii CANOE, and so motion by canoe; is stem of verb to be; -L.'ia motion toward any object men- 

 tioned (§ 22.10); -gAn suffix indicating past event experienced by the person speaking (§ 23.1). 



^gien and + hao. 



T-gAii is the suffix denoting intimate possession (§ 28.4). 



8 Although the story-teller himself went along, he speaks of his party in the third person throughout 

 much of the narrative, -in is the same suffix as -gAn, spoken of above (§ 23.1). The -i is a suffix of 

 doubtful significance, probably giving a very vague impression of the completion of an action (§ 25.6). 



9gai+ LU + hao. 



>» LU- BY canoe; dao stem; -gAn past-temporal suffix experienced (§ 23.1); -I see note 8. 



n LUgi'ml is applied to interior Indians generally by the Bella Bella at the mouth of Bentinck arm and 

 Dean canal. 



12 LU- BY canoe; is stem; dal several going; -tc!i motion into a shut-in place, such as a harbor or 

 inlet (§ 22.1); -gAn temporal suffix (§ 23.1). 



WffdJ night; xua igua) toward, without motion, and thus derivatively during (§31). 



^*t.'a'odji fort; gai the or that. 



15 Ld IN the neighborhood OF or opposite something on shore; -xa distributive suffix (§ 29.3). 



i^sL.'iM means anything that is well back, such as the rear row of several lines of houses, and thus It 

 is applied to an inlet running back into the land. 



1' no TO live, temporarily or permanently; -xan = -gAn the continuative suffix (§ 24.1); -do auxiliary 

 indicating cause (§ 18.2); -ya perfect time (§ 23.7); -gAn past-experienced-temporal suffix (§ 23.1). 



i8i4n face; gu at or there; sIa from (§ 31). 



" te.'i/ TO SHOOT with guns; -lid the inchoative auxiliary (§ 18.6); -An the past-experienced-temporal 

 suffix, which drops g after d; -I as above. 



"^M at or there + hao. 



" k.'o'da dead body; -geit to be in that condition; -An temporal suffix. 



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