AG-Stulqeye
stulqeye’
The Wolves
hwun’ yu shushts’i’lum ts’u tthu swiw’lus ’i’ wulh hwunin’sus tthu t’xum stulqeye’allh.
A boy was going along through the woods, and he came across six wolf pups.
ni’ suw’q’tus kw’ tswe’ tsme’me’mun’u, ’i’ ’uwu te’
He looked around for the parent of those cubs, but there was no one.
yath ’uw’ stl’i’s tthuw’nilh swiw’lus kws hwu stu’es ’u kwthu mens kws stsuw’et-s kws ’um’mushs.
This boy always wanted to be a good hunter, like his dad.
suw’ stu’eewun’s tthuw’nilh, “naathut tsun tse’ ’u kw’ stqeye’.”
And so he thought, “I will name myself Stqeye’, a wolf.”
ni’ ts’isum tthuw’nilh swiw’lus ’i’ hay ’al’ hwu thi, kw’am’kw’um’ swuy’qe’.
When the boy grew up, he became a very big, strong man.
ni’ tus ’u kwthu nuts’a’ skweyul ’i thut-stum ’u tthu mens kws ni’s ’uw’ wulh tl’am, kws nem’s ’um’mush.
And then one day, his father said to him that he was big enough now, and it was about time that he went out hunting.
wi’ultus kws wulh ’uwus ni’us tl’e’ stl’i’tl’qulh.
They could see that he was no longer a boy.
ni’ thut-stum, “nem’ ch kwelh lemstal’hw kw’us xwum ’i nem’ q’aayt kw’ smuyuth ’u[n’] sts’ulhtun.
His dad said to him.“Go out and show us that you can go out and kill a deer for your food.
wulh swuy’qe’ ch tse’, ’i’ yu tsum’eem’ ch ’ukw’ smuyuth ’uw’ ’um’iihw hun’tsew tun’ni’ ’u tthu tsa’luqw.”
You will be a man if you come down carrying a deer when you come down from up in the hills.”
sis ’uw’ huye’ tsam tthu stqeye’, nem’ ’um’mush
So, Stqeye’ went up in the hills to go hunting.
“lumstuhw tsun tse’ kwthunu shhwuw’weli kw’unus xwum ’i q’uynuhw kw’ smuyuth.”
“I will show my parents that I can kill a deer.”
yu shtu’eewun’ ts’u tthuw’nilh stqeye’.
This is what was in the mind of stqeye
tum’xuy’tl’ ts’u ’i’ ni’ nem’ xte’ ’u tthey’ tthuw’nilh swiw’lus.
It was in the wintertime when that boy did that.
niw’ hwun’ yu kw’ukw’i’qun’ ’u tthu smeent ’i’ ni’ wulh yiq.
He was still climbing up the mountain and it started to snow.
’uw’ thu’it niw’ tsshun’tsu ’u tthu yuse’lu smuyuth.
He sure got himself two deer.
’i’ hwi’ nilh tse’ kw’ sle’t-s kws t’uhwstuhws
Now, how will he get them down?
hwun’ tuw’ ’i yul’ew’utus tthu shun’tsus ’ukw’ shtu’estuhws tse’ kws t’uhwstuhws ’i’ ni’ wulh xatl’thut.
He was still kind of fixing up the deer as to how he was going to manage them to get them down, and it started to blow.
sis ’uw’ tl’ulim’ ’uw’ xuy’tl’that, skw’ey kws lumnuhws kw’ shxute’s kws ’imushs.
It got very, very cold, and he couldn’t see where he was walking from the snow drifts.
sis ’uw’ suw’q’tus kw’ shnem’s kws tuw’ q’uluts’thut-s.
He looked around for a place to kind of get himself away from the cold.
sis ’uw’ thuynamut ’u tthu hwul’akwum’ sye’yuq’ sthqet.
And he was quite fortunate that there was a hollow, fallen tree.
sis ’uw’ nuw’ilum ’u tthey’ ’i’ ni’ q’uluts’namut.
He went inside of that, and he got himself sheltered from the cold.
sis ’uw’ tuw’ hwu sthuthi’.
And he was much better off.
’uwu ni’us tl’e’ n’an ’uw’ tetuqnuhwus tthu sxuy’tl’ kwus hwu sun’iw’ ’u tthey’
He didn’t feel the cold so much when he got inside of there.
nilh tthu smuyuths ni’ stsshelhs sis ’uw’ hwu sthuthi’
He used the deer that he had killed to close off the end as a door, and he was well off.
sis ’uw’ q’ulum’ ni’ ’u tthey’.
And he spent the night in there at that place.
ni’ hwuy kwus ’uw’ wulh kweyul ’i’ ni’ wulh yul’ew’ kwthu sxuy’tl’
He woke up in the morning, and the cold was gone, past.
ni’ wulh tl’amuthut tthu skweyul.
The day was more manageable, the weather.
ni’ hwyuxwutus tthu ni’ shtute’xs tthu ni’ shni’s sis ’uw’ lumnuhwus tthu s’e’tl’q.
He opened up, pushed aside, those deer that he used as his door, and he looked outside.
sis ’uw’ lumnuhwus thu t’xum thithu stulqeye’ sel’ts’nutst tthu ni’ shni’s kwus q’uq’uluts’thut.
And he saw six great big wolves walking around, round and round, the place that he used as his shelter for the night.
ni’ ’utl’qul tthuw’nilh, sis ’uw’ t-sut-shut tthu stulqeye’ ’i’ kwunutum tthu sumiyuths, sis ’uw’ ts’ewutum t’ahwulhtstum
He went out, and the wolves came near, and they took his deer, and they helped him, took them down for him.
’uw’ t-hwyu tsukwul’ul’qum’ ’al’ tthuw’nilh.
He just followed behind.
ni’ ’u tthey’ ’i’ ni’ hekw’ tthuw’nilh ’u kwthu t’xum stulqeye’allh ni’ulh sle’lum’iilhs.
It was there that he remembered, it came to his mind, of the six wolf pups that he babysat.
nilh yuxw ’a’lu p’e’ ’ush ’is ts’ewutum ’u tthu stulqeye’.
That must be the reason that the wolves helped him.
’i’ wa’w u ’uw’ ne’ullh kwthu ni’ulh ts’ewutus kw’umutus stulqeye’ tthu ’i ts’ewut.
These could be the wolves that he helped raised, those that were helping him.
mukw’ shnem’s kws ’um’mushs ’i’ skw’ey kw’s ’uwus t’ahwulhtstewut ’u tthu shun’tsus.
Everywhere that he went to hunt, it never happened that they wouldn’t show up and take his deer down for him.
n’an nuw’ hwu siiye’yus tthu stulqeye’.
The wolves became real friends of his.
tun’ni’ ’u kwthey’ ’i’ ni’ hwu q’a’shun’tum’ ’u tthu stulqeye’ ’u kws ’i’mushs ’u tthu tsa’luqw.
From that time on, the wolves would walk with him while he was walking in the forest.
thume kwus ’ikw’ ni’ ’u tthu tsa’luqw, ’i nilh tthey’ siiye’yus ni’ ’i’wust ’u kwthu shxwte’s kws nem’s t’ahw.
There were two different times that he was lost in the woods, and it was those friends of his that showed him the way for him to go home
sis ’uw’ hwu thi’stam tthu ni’ naathut ’ukw’ stqeye’ ’u tthu siiye’yus.
So, the one that called himself Stqeye’, the wolf, was thought greatly of by his friends.
nilh ’uw’ shtu’es ’al’ tthu nu sxwi’em’.
That is all I have to say about this legend.
ni’ hay.
The End.