This material is based on work supported by National Science Foundation grants BCS-0651787 and BCS-0853788 to the University of Alaska Southeast with Ljáaḵkʼ Alice Taff as Principal Investigator and by National Endowment for the Humanities fellowship 266286-19 to Ljáaḵkʼ Alice Taff. Any opinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this material are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Science Foundation or National Endowment for the Humanities.

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Tlingit Conversation #83c

Singers are participants leaving a Tlingit language event in Yakutat, Alaska, singing a song composed in Tlingit Conversation 83a. In Conversation 83a, this song was composed by Ḵudeik Joe Thomas, Ḵaanáḵ Ruth Demmert, Xwaanlein Virginia Oliver, Kawduk’eit Tláa Vida Davis, and L’eiwtu Éesh Herman Davis. Woochjix̱oo Éesh George Ramos, mastermind of the Van Rescue depicted in Conversation 83b appears left of screen here. Recorded on July 12, 2012, by Ljáaḵkʼ Alice Taff at the Yakutat, Alaska, airport.
Tlingit transcription and English translation by Ḵaanáḵ Ruth Demmert.
He, iyaa, aa.
He, he, hei, he, iyaa, aa.
He, he, hei, he, iyaa, aa. Hásch áwé
They were the ones
Hásch áwé a daa yéi has jeewanei.
Theyʼre the ones who worked on it.
Hásch áwé a daa yéi has jeewanei.
Theyʼre the ones who worked on it.
Hásch áwé a daa yéi has jeewanei.
Theyʼre the ones who worked on it.
He, he, hei, he, iyaa, aa.
He, he, hei, he, iyaa, aa.
He, he, hei, he, iyaa, aa. Yaakwdáat,
Yakutat,
Yaakwdáat Ḵwáan ḵa Jóonu ḵu.oo.
Yakutat people and Juneau residents.
Yaakwdáat Ḵwáan ḵa Jóonu ḵu.oo.
Yakutat people and Juneau residents.
Yaakwdáat Ḵwáan ḵa Jóonu ḵu.oo.
Yakutat people and Juneau residents.
He, he, hei, he iyaa, aa.
He, he, hei, he iyaa, aa.
He, he, hei, he iyaa, aa.
Wei táaxʼaa!
Those mosquitoes!
Wéi táaxʼaa naytʼácht yee daadáx̱.
Slap those mosquitoes off your body.
Wéi táaxʼaa naytʼácht yee daadáx̱.
Slap those mosquitoes off your body.
Wéi táaxʼaa naytʼácht yee daadáx̱.
Slap those mosquitoes off your body.
He, he, hei, he iyaa, aa.
He, he, hei, he iyaa, aa.
He, he, hei, he iyaa, aa.
He, he, hei, he iyaa, aa. Hóochʼ áwé! Hóochʼ áwé!
Itʼs done! Itʼs done!
Xwee, xwee, xwee, xwee.