stl’ul’iqulh ni’ ’u tthu skwoulew’t-hw ni’ ’utl’ yuxwula’us | Children at the Kuper Island School

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• Title: stl’ul’iqulh ni’ ’u tthu skwoulew’t-hw ni’ ’utl’ yuxwula’us | Children at the Kuper Island School
• Title spoken by: Pul-hwuletse’ | Wayne Charlie
• Description: Children participating in a spelling bee at the Kuper Island School.
  (Published 06 June 1958).

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• Speaker/Story Teller: Pul-hwuletse’ | Wayne Charlie
• Date of recording:
• Listen to the recording in Hul’q’umi’num’:

tl’ul’iqulh ni’ ‘u tthu skwoulew’t-hw ni’ ‘utl’ yuxwula’us | Children at the Kuper Island Indian Residential school

1. stl’ul’iqulh ni’ ‘u tthu skwoulew’t-hw ni’ ‘utl’ yuxwula’us.
   These are children at the Kuper Island school.
2. ‘upeenu ‘i’ kw’ na’nuts’a’ stl’ul’iqulh sq’uq’a’stum ‘u tthu hun’utum’ spelling bee.
   There are 11 children participating in a spelling bee.
3. ni’ yuhw tus tthu ‘imushlhne’tun.
   This is on account of the visitors. 
4. hay ‘ul’ qux stl’ul’iqulh ni’ulh sulsulq’ ‘i’ kwekwi’ ni’ ‘u tthey’ skwoulew’t-hw.
   Many of the children were very lonely and hungry. Made it hard to study at school.
5.  sisuw’ tl’uxw hard kwus yu ta’tul’ustus kwthu ni’ swi’wuste’wut.
   And this made it very hard to learn what they were shown.

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Key information

• Time period or Date: 1958
• Theme(s): Education, Children,
• Location: Kuper Island
• Source info (type – name): Newspaper — Cowichan Leader
• Photographer credit: Leader Staff Photo
• Individuals identified: Not Specified

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