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[SPEAKING TOHONO O'ODHAM]
Poetry Center.

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[SPEAKING TOHONO O'ODHAM]
Gail Browne, Renee.

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[SPEAKING TOHONO O'ODHAM]
Sherwin.

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Alberto
[SPEAKING TOHONO O'ODHAM].

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So it's my pleasure
to be here, again,

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in this wonderful facility.

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I'm always happy to
have the opportunity

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to share my work here.

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And I'm always happy to
know that this place is

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available for all languages.

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And so this is a wonderful
project to be involved with.

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I'm going to read my
translation of the two works

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that I was assigned.

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And since you just
heard Sherwin's piece,

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the one he started out
with, when I looked at it,

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the first thing I thought
of I read through--

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what's the O'odham word for obsidian?

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[LAUGHTER]

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Run to the dictionary,
there's no word for obsidian.

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[LAUGHTER]

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And the way language
is, you can make a word.

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And so that was my first trial.

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[LAUGHS]

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And normally-- because I'm over
in the linguistics department,

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I have different--

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I've had different experiences
with doing translation works.

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I know there's translation work
that must work a certain way.

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But this one was,
of course, different

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from that type of work.

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And so I know the difference.

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And so this was
enjoyable and, of course,

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challenging in its own way.

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So this one's Sherwin's piece, in O'odham.

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Jewed T-Je'e

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Ha-je’e ’am ha’icu cegĭto:
We:peg ’att o wo:p, ’amjeḍ o hihi.

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K hab ha-kakk’e, “Nac na:nko kaij mac 
heg ‘eḍa hema ñi’okĭ ñeñok?”

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Nopi pi ’amhu ha’icu ’apecud t heg hekaj hab ’e-ju: ’i:da.

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Huḍnig, si’alig, we:s ha’icu ‘am ṣa:gid ‘o ḍ paḍ ha’icu.
Ma:sig ‘eḍ,

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s-ko’ok g ta:tamij,
Pa:la ‘o pi mu’uk ‘am taṣ tonlig ‘eḍ

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We:sijc ‘am wakt k g meihi ’am ma’iṣpio 
’am komel meḍadam ’akimel ’eḍ

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Heg hab masma hab e-elid:

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“Ge’e pi ’ap cu’ig”

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Pi ’o hab ’a:g mat o ñe’ed 
’id ’eda ñi’okĭ ’eḍ

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nopi ’id ’eḍa ki: pi ’anhu ha’icug g kanjul,

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pi g ’anhu ga:g  g s-ke:g s-cuk hodai
gahu o si ko:mcud e-hohonma ba:ṣo.

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ṣo:ṣon—
duakag.

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Does it sound familiar?

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[LAUGHTER]

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