Interview · North Dakota · Patricia Christensen · NDNAEU 2
Themes: Land & stewardship, Language & revitalization, Storytelling & oral tradition, Education & learning, Food & plants, Children & young people
Learn About questions
Who were the characters in this story?
When and where did it take place?
What are the most important points of the story?
What do stories like this one teach us?
How does the translation from Dakota to English impact the meaning of this story?
Learn From questions
Is there a story I know that was told over and over to me as I was growing up? If so, what is it and why was it told?
Did/do I enjoy having a story told to me? Why or why not?
How have stories impacted and helped to develop my understanding of myself and who I want to be?
Have I ever been told a story in a language other than the one I speak? What was it like?
Transcripts
06 Patricia Christensen: A Sad Story
Watch this interview on YouTubeThe one I just I was like to hear that because it was a sad it was a sad story him and there’s a lady her husband two children a boy and a girl they were camping and the dad said he was going to go and get food he’s gonna go hunting and he would be back so Jenny left indent her mother and the two children waited for him to come back they’d wait and wait he waited he didn’t come back for a couple of days so didn’t um she said she’ll go look for him she told the kids to stay home she’ll be back with the dad so she said Joshy she wasn’t gonna look so she walked and she walked and walked and she was getting tired so she thought she’ll wash up and then she’ll start again so she did she started walking after she washed up and waited rested then she started walking again she came to a camp she came to a camp here it was he wasn’t there but all of a sudden when she looked back in the water she was young she was young so then that the chief’s son fell in love with her right away soon as he seen her so she start staying there and so the kids wait waiting waiting for her she they come back she didn’t come back so then the kid said he’ll go look for her so they went looking for her and here they came to this little pond where she washed up and stuff and the dirt around it was just on top so the kids took that they took that and they said they were going to find her so they went in there went your DK to this camp and she was which is some young man she was this young man and she told him my mother I’m been looking for you and she said she told that chief son she was with take these kids away I don’t know them I don’t know them take them away and then your girl had that stuff in her blanket she said were your children she said why are you saying this and she true that dirt in her face and she got old again that’s I don’t know why that story I was stuck in my stuck in my head and I said maybe you know I a certain things happened like that a long time ago you know when they used medicine you know so that always I don’t know why I but that I was stuck in my my head why did I happen to why she did that you know it was her kids and but then when you think of it now and it has happened you’re like that you know so that I was stuck in my head but the way my grandma tells in Dakota it’s like so true you know so that I was um I was think about that when I think about these young girl girls my Twitter take not you know taking care of their kids that’s where that comes in my wine a lot
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