Singonh sinughił didighene', Mother's teachings. Told by Ellen Savage at her home in Anchorage, AK, October 2002.
	Recorded by Alice Taff and Donna Miller MacAlpine. Transcribed and translated by Donna Miller MacAlpine, Ellen Savage, Edna Deacon, and Alice Taff.

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	What I'll explain, the spirit and how our Lord made the world?

	Ok, how my Mama tell me.

	(AT) Deg xiq'i.
	Around here like. (In the local language.)

	Yeah, deg xiq'i, what my Mama tell me.
	Yeah, in the local language. ...

	How the world was done. Ok. Ok. Ok, you can start it.

	Yah. Gogidet.
	Yeah. Here it is.

	Singonh neg, sito' neg yił sixinitlyo.
	My nice mother and my nice father raised me.

	Iłt'e xiłdik {siyi, si} singonh neg anh,
	Always then my nice mother, that one,

	siyił xinaxidilighusr.
	would always talk with me.

	Sraqay k'idz itl'anh ine',
	I was a little kid even so,

	sinughił di'ne.
	she talked to me.

	"Engthidong,
	"Long ago,

	Dina Xito' neg,
	Our dear Father,

	Anh 'n at,
	He's the one,

	nq'oxdina' ye
	the people,

	dhiłtsenh,"
	He made them,"

	dina iłne.
	she'd tell us.

	"Yitots'i yuxudz che ngi'egh
	"And everything outside (in nature) too,

	ggagg tux xiyił,
	and animals,

	ggagg k'idz tux xiyił,
	and birds,

	tritr yił,
	and trees,

	yuxudz, te yił,
	everything, and water,

	izre yił,
	and cold,

	divaxa xidetr'iyh iy tux xiyił.
	and with the wind.

	Yuxudz uxitiy yił yi'eghonh," yiłne,
	All those things also he made," she'd say,

	"Anh Dina Xito'.
	"That One, Our Father.

	Yitots'i diyeg xiłdi che yughin ni'elayh.
	And then he put his spirit in them.

	Yuxudz uxitiy,
	All those things,

	yuxudz vav yił,
	and all the food,

	Viyeg gila xidela.
	His spirit surely it has.

	Yux, che Dina Xito',
	You also, Our Father,

	iy yeghonh ts'i yitots'i,
	these He made and,

	iy Diyeg iy axa diyał'an' xiy.
	His spirit, with it he did it.

	Got go q'odet, yuxudz vav tux xiyił,
	Here right now, in all the food,

	tritr tux xiyił,
	in the trees,

	didlang ngi'egh,
	the spruce trees outside,

	yuxudz giyeg it'anh," yiłne, singonh anh.
	they all have a spirit," she'd say, my mother, that one.

	"Yitots'i yuxudz xo'in xiłdik,
	And so for that reason then,

	xełedz xineg
	really nicely

	xiyan' duxt'anh.
	only, you guys should behave.

	Ngho vaxa gits'i duxt'anhda', q'anyixitili'eł.
	When you do something wrong, it will pay you back.

	Ggagg chux xiyił,
	And big animals,

	uxitiy ggagg chux xiyił,
	those things, even big animals,

	Viyeg xelanh.
	His spirit they have.

	Yitots'i xingo tlughidixilighusrda',
	And even when you laugh at others (in ridicule),

	yixitidhiłts'ił.
	He will hear it.

	Yitots'i a xiłdik
	So then

	q'anyixitili'eł.
	it will pay you back.

	Yitongo xełedz xineg di'uxł'anda',
	Meanwhile when nicely you treat others,

	xełedx xineg diyixtił'eł," dina iłne.
	very nicely you will be treated," she'd tell us.

	Yuxudz xiłdi yitots'i,
	So everything then,

	yuxudz xiłdik,
	everything then,

	xiłdi,
	thus,

	sinughił didighene xiy yuxudz,
	everything that she told me,

	gogidet.
	here it is.

	Axa 'n go didisne.
	With it (the spirit) I'm saying it.

	Che singonh sinughił di'ne ts'i, "Engitthidong,
	And my mother would tell me, "Long ago,

	Dina Xito' {ng} ngan' anh itltsenh dong.
	Our Father made our land long ago.

	Yuxudz xiy geghonh xiy.
	He made everything.

	Yuxudz {yi} uxitiy yi yeghonh iy,
	Everything that He made,

	yuxudz Viyeg noxidelanh.
	everything, His spirit, they have it.

	Iy Viyeg xiłdik iy
	(It's) His spirit therefore,

	xaxa gits'i ditr'ighilał ts'i qul," yiłne.
	we can't do anything bad to it," she'd say.

	Vav tux xiyił,
	With food,

	łegg tux xiyił,
	with fish,

	xełedz xineg xiyan'
	very nicely only

	dasrił'eł.
	we treat them.

	Uxitiy xiłdik,
	Those things then,

	q'andinatili'eł ts'i yitots'i.
	in time they'll pay us back.

	Nighan gighitonek
	Something will watch over us

	xełedz xineg
	(if) very nicely

	xiyan' tr'atołtth'eł,"
	only we behave,"

	dina iłne.
	she'd tell us.

	"Gogide xo'in go yuxnughił didisne,"
	"That is why I am telling you this,"

	dina iłne, singonh.
	she'd tell us, my mother.

	Yuxudz sinughił di'ne deg iy.
	This is everything she tells me

	Yitots'i gogide q'odet yuxudz.
	And here it all is right now.

	Gogide yuxudz idisne.
	Right now I am saying it all.

	Singonh q'i didisne.
	Like my mother I'm saying it.

	Xiłdi yuxudz dighene dixigho'in,
	That's why she told us everything like this,

	Yuxudz Viyeg gidixidelanh.
	Everything has His spirit.

	Q'ontr'idiłqon' xiyił, vav tux xiyił,
	With sewing, and in food,

	yuxudz Viyeg nixidelanh ts'i xiyan' ngi'egh,
	everything (has) His spirit only outside (in nature),

	tritr tux, didlang tux,
	in the wood, in the spruce,

	q'iyh tritr,
	birch wood,

	yuxudz Viyeg nixidelanh.
	everything, His spirit, it has it.

	Gag tux xiyił,
	In berries too,

	gan yeg ngi'egh yiggiy.
	that spirit is there outside (around us in nature).

	Nanhdal tux xiyił, yuxudz Viyetr, Viyeg nixidelanh.
	With ducks too, everything His breath, His spirit, they have it.

	Yuxudz an at dixidighene' yidong.
	All that's what they used to say long ago.

	Yuxudz {din} singonh ye, singonh yuxudz sinughił didighene'.
	All that my mother, my mother told all that to me.

	Yuxudz xo'in an go xiłdik
	All that is why

	go dadz didisne.
	this is how I'm telling it.

	Xiłdik,
	So then,

	engtthi xodhił xingo,
	a long time in the future when they are old enough,

	go sittheyqay,
	my grandchildren,

	divało
	I hope

	got sixidhitltth'onh.
	they will hear this from me.

	Go gil,
	Now,

	{gilegiq'i} gilegik xidhiq'idz xiye diniłdikda',
	if it's written on paper,

	xiye tixitoxał.
	they will read it in there.

	Yuxudz xo'in an go xiłdik oqo dadz didisne.
	That's why I'm saying this.

	Agidet.
	There it is.