Corfield shhwimelu | Corfield Store

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• Title: Corfield shhwimelu | Corfield Store
• Title spoken by: Pul-hwuletse’ | Wayne Charlie
• Description: A horse-drawn carriage brings a woman to the Corfield Store where many people sold and traded their wares.

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• Speaker/Story Teller: Sti’tuma’t | Ruby Peter (Kwa’mutsun Elder)
• Date of recording:
• Listen to the recording in Hul’q’umi’num’:

Corfield shhwimelu | Corfield Store

1. nilh xut’ustum’ Corfield ni’ ’utl’ xwul’qw’selu.
   This is called Corfield and it’s at Koksilah.
2. niilh shhwimelu ’i’ ’iluqutus tthu swetu susuw’ hwahwiyum’ ’u thu swetu.
   It was a store which used to buy sweaters and sell them.
3. qux ni’..’iilh ’i’luqutus thu stekun sht’es ’ul’ tthu ni’ tuw’ syaays xut’ustum’ toque.
   They used to buy socks and other things, any kind of knitting like the one called toque.
4. niilh ’uw’ tl’lim’ ’uw’ shhwimelu hwahwiyum’ ’u tthu s’ulhtun.
   It was a store that sold different kinds of food.
5. susulh ’uw’ hunum’ tthu hwulmuhw hwahwiyum’ ’u thu swetu, stekun, tams, ’i’ nilhulh tl’uw’ thuytum tthu xut’ustum’ tams ’i’ tthu toques. snuwul’exutun’ swetu.
   So many of the Indians used to make sweaters, tams, toques, socks and sell them at Corfield store, also vests.
6. we’ulh tthu sxt’ekw’ ’i’ ni’ tuw’ ’i’luqutus nilh ni’ s-hwahwi’um’s.
   They used to even buy carvings and they used to sell it.
7. ’i’ ’uw’ nilh thulh ’uw’ ni’ …ni’ tthu s’ulhtun.
   They had many kinds of food there which they sold.
8. tthu hwulmuhw ’u kwsus hwayum ’u thu swetu ’i’ nuw’ s’ulhtun ’ul’ tthu ni’ s’uye’qs.
   Many of the Indians when they sold their sweaters and different knittings, they would just trade for food.
9. nilh niilh sht’es ’u kw’un’a wulh hith kwthey’ xut’ustum’ Corfield.
   And that’s how it used to be at that Corfield Store.
10. ni’ ts’twa’ ni’ ’u kwthu ’apun ’i’ kw’ toohw xuthunlhshe’ ’i’ hwu’i kwthu ’iilh xut’ustum’ Buster [Matthews] niilh hwu shhwimelu, ’iye’q ni’ hwu tswe’ ’u tun’a.
    It was in about 1940 and that’s when Buster Matthews came in and took over the store there.
11. ’uwu te’ nu shtatul’stuhw tthu ’i ’ele’ ’uw’ hwulunitum’ ’ul’ nilh ’i tl’shhwimelu.
    I don’t know these people who are shopping in the store; they are just white people. 
12. ’i’ nilh ’uw’ sht’es ’u kw’un’a wulh hith.
    And that’s the way it was a long time ago. 
13. ha’ ch nem’ ’imush ’u kwun’s hwtsel ’i’ hakwush ch tthu puki, ’uwu te’ snuhwulh, ’uwu te’ kaa.
    When you travel you used the buggies, there were no cars then. 
14. stiqiw ’ul’ ’i’ tthu puki.
    If you go somewhere, you took the horse and buggy.
15. nuts’a’ ’ul’ stiqiw sus ’uw’ st’i’am’ tthu xut’ustum’ hanus.
    The horse has harness on.
16. suw’ t’uyum’tum tthey’ xut’ustum’ puki, nilh ni’ ha’kwushus tthu hwulmuhw ’u kws nem’s tl’shhwimelu.
    They would be attached to the buggy which the Coast Salish people used to go to store.
17. ’uw’ hay ’ul’ shtatul’st-hween’. ni’ hay.
    That’s all I know. The end.

Vocabulary

’uya’qtulstuhw- trade: get someone to trade

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Key information

• Time period or Date: 1930s
• Theme(s): Handiwork, Transportation, Employment
• Location: Koksilah
• Source info (type – name): Museum — Cowichan Valley Museum & Archives
• Photographer credit: Unknown
• Individuals identified: Not Specified

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