Hocąk Text — The Woman Who Is Going to Stop the War

Hocąk Text — The Woman Who Is Going to Stop the War

by Stella (Blowsnake) Stacey, a.k.a. Mountain Wolf Woman
transcribed and translated by Sheila Shigley

Stella Stacy (Mountain Wolf Woman)

00:24.45
Hinų́gížą	že’é,	éjašge	— éjašgųnįže —	harukózire	ciónąsáreže,
A woman	this one,	there	— perhaps at that place —	they arrested her	shutting her in house,

	00:32.4
ánąk.	Že’é,	éšge,	wa’ų́ną́kšgųnįže.	Hinų́gížą	že’é,	wéže,	"Wažą́
they call it.	This one,	therefore,	she must have done it.	A woman,	this one,	she said,	"Something

			00:44.7
yápérezᵉnągᵉra,	hotáikjanąhéna,"	éže.	Té,	hokízágre,*	hot’ékią́gre†	te’é,
I have knowledge of,	I will tell you,"	she said.	This one,	this war,	caused injury	these,

* < hokiza-agre.
† < ho-t’ék-hi-agre.


wą́kšík	hokírájra,	hakíkíra	gážegų	ną̄́́gre	te’é,	rušją́įnegi,	pıną́ną.
man	all kinds,	fought one another	like that	the ones	these,	if they ceased,	it would be good.

01:01					01:09
Rušją́įneánąga,	kínųbą́hą*	hokízágra	mé	[ž]esgánįánąga,	hižą́kíra,	gážegų,
They are finished, and	not a second time	the war	this	it should not be, and	the one,	like that

* this is ke, a front clip of hąké, elided with hínųbą́ha, "second time," giving us, "not a second time". Cf. hikehinųbahąra (Ai KAe Ai noo l An L), "never again" (Kingswan).

	01:13.38				01:19.8
kíneanąga*	ną́cgé	pı̨́	hakíkíšjekirešųnųkje,	gážeesgégiží.	Wą́kšík ho’ı̨́	pı̨́	ų́įnąkųnı̨́,	ésgé
they made, and	heart	good	they will always share,	in that way.	Life	good	they must make,	so

* or cíneanąga?

	01:24.9								01:33.3
yárén’.	Žésgé,	žésgé	yápéresąną,	ésge,	te’é	hotákšą́ną,"	ésge	és’áže,	rokízáną̄́́ka*
I believe.	That,	that	I know,	so	this	I am telling,"	thus	she always said,	[those fighting among themselves]

* rokiza is a new word. Sheila Shigley says, "it seems ro- has a connotation of 'each other' or maybe better, 'amongst themselves.' See hirokikit’e, 'to talk to one another' [m], hirokíkonañk, 'they carried together' [jb-D] hirokíkere, 'to be connected' [hl] hirokipunūnągᵉre, 'encourage one another' [r-BD]."

			01:37.5
wą́kšík	hokírácra,	rokízáną̄́́ka.	¶ Howácéhira,	žigé	wą́kšík	hoit’ét’é
men	the various,	those fighting [among themselves].	Different kinds,	again	man	languages

		01:42.8
hiją́hira[šgížą],*	kiris’áže.	Kirigi	éja	mı̨́ną́gną́ka	že’é,
[one] the others [as well],	he would return.	When he returned,	there	sitting down	this one,

* -šgíža < -šge hiža?

			01:47.8				01:52.1
žé	esge	wawógíraks’áže.	Ga,	wáires’áže,	"Hisgé	wašéną.	'Gé
this way	thus	he would always tell them of it.	And	they would say to her,	"Truly	you say.	Truly

		01:56.6
wašéną,"	higáires’áže.	Hijá	kiriákaráiregi,	egiówacehi*	wą́kšík	wowacéhi,
you say,"	they would say.	There	when they returned,	and tribe	men	grouped with them,

* < egi howacehi, the /h/ having been lost to sandhi.

						02:03.2
hit’eówacehi,*	gížą́†	kiriga,	žigé	ésge	wógíraks’áže.	Giži	haną́c
tribal languge,	and one	when he came home,	again	thus	he would always tell them.	Indeed	all

* in the recording, the initial /h/ seems to have been dropped due to external sandhi.
† < (é)gi-hížą́.

							02:14.9
gipı̨́neže,	šgé	wéže,	" 'Nųkjı̨́cábra	hisgé	wašéną,"	higaires’aže.	[Gi]ží	že’é,
they liked it,	also	they said,	"His dear sister	truth	she speaks,"	they would say.	And so	this one,

				02:18.6						\| 00:02:22.32
hinų́gíyą,	žé	ésge	éže.	Éja,	épa,	kízára	rušją́neže.	Esge	…
a woman,	this	thus	she said.	There,	from that time on,	the fighting	they stopped.	So	...

Source:

Stella Stacy, "A woman who is going to stop the war," reading by Sheila Shigley, from audio tapes in the American Philosophical Society. Fraenkel, Gerd. Mss.Rec. 29, recorded 11 July 1959, 1 .mp3; 00:00:24.45 - 00:02:22.32. 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 525.9-10. APS accession number 7246; APSdigrec_0943; Recording Number: 02; Program Number: 04.