Community Self Management, Empowerment and Development
English version of this poem
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Dinjii ts’àt tohjàh
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Poem by Lau Tsu
Translated into the Gwich’in Athabaskan Language
by Mary Jane Kunnizzi,
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Gwitch’in Specialist, Yukon Native Language Centre, Yukon College.
See their web site:
http://www.yukoncollege.yk.ca/ynlc/Contents.html
edited by Phil Bartle
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 Dinjii
ts’àt tohjàh;
Guutat gohch’ìn;
Guuvat’ànyinohthàn;
Guuts’at gik’ìnoonjìi;
Nijìn t’àngiich’uu aii gwits’at;
Guuvàh gwitr’it t’igoh’ìn.
Aii jidìi gidi’ii kat nàgohtthàih.
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Gwàt aii chit nizii nilii kat,
Aii gwitr’it gwichìilàgùudhat,
Aii gwitr’it ndòo gwinàa’ài’,
Aii dinjii tthak t’ànginuu:
"Nikhwanh than’ t’ìidìlìk"
                                   Lao Tsu
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