Transcription of the Rogers’ Raid Portion of Elvine Obomsawin’s Original Interview Recorded by Gordon Day in 1959 (Reel 29, Side 1) With an Introductory Note by Marge Bruchac

This is a copy of Gordon Day’s original transcription of the 1959 audio recording of Elvine Obomsawin. The English language version of the story shown here is a literal translation of the Abenaki spoken text. English words are linked together with dashes whenever they match up to a single Abenaki word (for example, ahaigawa = “when-we-lived”)