Hocąk Text — A Prophecy About the End Time

by Stella Stacy (Mountain Wolf Woman)
transcribed and translated by Sheila Shigley

Stella Stacy

English Translation


00:14               00:27    
"Hiroą́gᵉra hahí hérégiži, wažą́ra cų́kjaneną," áną́kše, že'é, Žą́nų̀nąka. "Giži, haną́c te'é,
"The last (final) time time when it is, something it will be born/provided," he said, [this one] the Prophet. "If, all this,

 

 

        00:35       00:39  
šoroǧóc ų́wiánąga, jásgé pı̨́r̨ajé, žigé, ésgé hí nįháwią́je. Wažą́na cų́kjanahéną,
you are looking at you do, and however you behave carefully, again so to do you should be. Something it will be born/provided,

 

 

      00:47      
hahíroágᵉra herékjenehégiže," eže. "Jágú ágᵉra haną́c hokoroǧóc
the final time(s) it will be," he said. "[How] something from across the way all to look around in search of your own

 

 

  00:52              
ų́wią́je. Jásgé pı̨́ną́nagi, né hirapérez [herają́ge], že'é hokoroǧóc ų́wią́je."
you should do. However, it will be good for you, you you know ... [this one] look around in search of your own you will do."

 

 

00:57        
Gą́ že(e)sge ą́nąkše, že'é, Žáwánų̀nąka.
[Even that] [this way] he said, [this one] the Prophet.

 

Source:

Reading and translation by Sheila Shigley, from the audio tape in the American Philosophical Society: 10-04. Fraenkel, Gerd. Stacy, Stella. "Prophecy about the end of the world and the behavior every man owes to himself," recorded 13 July 1959, 1 .mp3; 00:00:14 - 00:01:01. Copy made by Gerd Fraenkel of an original tape held at the Archives of Languages of the World, Indiana University. This program comes from original tape 528.6. APS accession number 7210; APSdigrec_2181; Recording Number: 02; Program Number: 33.