Interview · North Dakota · Mary Gachupin · NDNAEU 2 · NDNAEU 4
Themes: Land & stewardship, Language & revitalization, Storytelling & oral tradition, Education & learning, Listening & observation, Children & young people, Self-determination & leadership
Learn About questions
Mary tells a personal story in both English and Hidatsa. What similarities and differences do I notice in how she tells each story? How does language affect the telling and meaning of the story?
Learn From questions
Do I remember a time when I was in a lot of trouble, but ended up learning a really important lesson? How do feel about telling the story or having the story told about me?
Are stories sources of happiness for me? Why or why not?
Do I enjoy reminiscing through stories? Why or why not?
Transcripts
NDNAEU 2 & 4 Sledding Lessons with Mary Gachupin
Watch this interview on YouTubeIt was during a winter time when we were very young age I would say upon Levin 12 years old and our parents have put us in a car and said don’t get off we’re going to load up our stuff and we’re going to be on our way so okay so we SAT there and waited my sister dying and we were okay when are they going to come out working late waiting a long time and finally we got the idea that where the car was parked we had a little right up the hill there was a little slitting place there so she gets the I my sister says well why don’t we go pull up the sled of the hill because we’ve been in here a long time they won’t come out okay we’ve got off in who struggle pulling that sled all the way up to the hill we got up there and we’re just going to get in and here comes our parents who walked out they got in and a left and with we’re screaming mom dad and we’re appeared trying we try to get in a little sled fast enough to slide down and catch them before they got in and left we got down there and they were already gone and i told victoria my sister she said on ok it’s your fault you wanted to get off and go up right and i said no other properties and they’ll come and get us no crying so we were both crying their properties and i still come get us don’t cry so she small for a while then she comes back it’s your fault you they left the zoo and then I’d say no they’ll be back you know and they never came after us and we missed our only chance to go to town because back then you know there was a lot of us and we kind of took turns being taken to town and that was our chance to go to town and we missed it so we got home my parents got on mini said I’m I have we asked him how come you left us you huh I know we left you and so how come you left us because you didn’t listen we told you to sit in the car and stay put and you guys never did so you guys let that be a lesson then Victoria comes to me and says it’s all your fault that’s why you learned a lesson no you you were you know me boy so she was still blaming me in and our dad said you know when we tell you children it to do something we expect it done or if we tell you give you directions you need to learn to follow directions that’s the bottom line ok so forget about it the days over you know but let that be a lesson from now on when you’re we telling you something that’s what we mean ok so that was a lesson we learned but to tell this in hit ansa it is like Martha fault okay Mara what was up meanwhile I start with a lot of my FB robot screwed home without google book mogu a hairy walk equal we depart for what are we other windstar why I one had its own the comedic a tab capitata morrow da hospital hold on give Kiki de papa the commercial Murdock Oh Harry huh hey what is que bajo kudos dear that’s what I put her dakari walk woodson you know here we give you our girls degree water sloshing hawa will carry that wallet upon our key with the little cranky hairs of a coozer key 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you know and we’re adults now and we share some of these things and why my little younger sister would say you know sometimes in I wish we could go back to these days you know we had so much fun and we didn’t realize it was fun when our parents were getting after us and all that you know we didn’t but now that we think about it I said had we known a lot of the things that we were being told by our parents or elders back then that we didn’t listen you know things like this we remember know that were older and wished we had things done things differently you know so those are some of the stories that we shared and a lot more descriptive words where my sister is blaming me need a head it you know it’s not just your fault it’s like you know if it wasn’t for you that I didn’t listen or so that’s kind of like how it’s done translated in head out but in English it she just says all if it wasn’t for you know we would have been on in town that the feeling you get when you say it and hit on that there was a lot more to it that you know if I had hadn’t listened to you we would have been in town and that gives you that kind of a feeling or that kind of on information you receive when you see it in hit ansa but in English it doesn’t you know it just says well you know if I just then listen to you or something so there’s a lot more descriptive words that you say in it also that is not there in English
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