Story of the Month

Putting Up Fish

Tahbił tanełkiz. Łuq’a shegh dighelagh, Dich’anełtan. Ch’u ghest’uts’ ch’u nunghestseq’. Balik zełchin. Nutin’at nutiha tsiq’ tughełu. Tethdi chuq’eya ch’u esni eł bet’uh idghełq’en. Łq’ich’idi jani yethdi nunghełu. Ch’u nanłghal. Ch’u dghaznigi yidgheshchet. Yethdi heyi niłtu.

(I set the net in the water. A fish swam in to me. I took it out. And I cut it and made it into strips. I made balik1. I put it in brine for two hours. Then I kept a fire of birch and cottonwoods under it. I did that for nine days, then I took it down, and I bundled it. And then I put it in the cache. Then it's for winter.)