AHASIW MASKEGON-ISKEW
PERFORMANCE
SAKEHI' TOWIN ONIPOWAK
these words are you
you are these words
PEKISK WE'WINAH (words)
I bore you
NEHTAWI'KIWIN (a birth)
now these breasts
NASKI'KUN (my breasts)
this womb
NISTUM PIMATSI WIN KA MACHl'PAYlK (womb)
have died
NIKAWE NIPIW MIKAWE POONI PIMATISIW
(my mother has died), (the mother no longer lives)
MAWIHKATOWIN WESUKI TEHE'WIN (mourn)
KIYA MATO (don't weep)
KUKWATUKU'TAMOWIN (wail)
you bear me
I am dead
I am you
my flesh
Nl WIYA'SIM
my bones
NISKUN
my soul
UCHAHK
now rot for you
PISKUTI'TIN
rot in you
PISKUTI'TIN KEYA
did you learn
KISKEYIHTA
to love death
SAKEHI'TOWIN ONIPOWAK
while loving me
SAKIHI'WIWIN NEYA
while I lay dying
ATI'NIPIW NEYA
dusk is coming
WANINAK'WAHK PE NOKWUN
wait for me
PEHOWIN NEYA
I will come, crying
NEYA PETA'TAMOW
the wind will carry my voice
PETAS'TEW TEHTA KOSI WIN
in the darkness
NIPISK 'TIPISK
