Hethadenee waunauyaunee vadan Luke vanenana The Gospel According to Saint Luke   By: John [Translator] Roberts

Although this book was published without a record of the translators, the task has been attributed to Michael White Hawk and the Reverend John Roberts. As the Inventory of the John Roberts Papers at the American Heritage Center, University of Wyoming attests (see the Rocky Mountain Online Archive at http://rmoa.unm.edu/), Rev. Roberts worked among the Arapaho and Shoshone peoples on the Wind River Indian Reservation in Wyoming from 1883, remaining there beyond his retirement until his death in 1949. He was recorded as the sole translator of this work in the Library of Congress Record, from its "old catalog" (see http://lccn.loc.gov/ca 17002757). However, Michael White Hawk is known to be the Arapaho first language speaker on which this translation depended (personal communication from Dr Andrew Cowell, Director at the Center for the Study of Indigenous Languages of the West, Colorado University.

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Since this transcription was done without the supervision or advice of Arapaho speakers, the text is presented as originally published, followed by a list of possible errors in Part 2 of this note.

HETHADENEE WAUNAUYAUNEE VADAN LUKE VANENĀNA.

THE GOSPEL ACCORDING TO SAINT LUKE.

NEW YORK: AMERICAN BIBLE SOCIETY, INSTITUTED IN THE YEAR MDCCCXVI.

1903.

HETHADENEE WAUNAUYAUNEE VADAN LUKE VANENĀNA.

NEHEDAUNAU 1.

1 Hanau waunauthathee hadnedanuu hejadenenau hadjenanuu hauthase vavesee hauthedau hena hayauhuhau nanāe hājavaānethauwuthajauthaunin,

2 Hasevenānauau nanaa hehethee jasesee vasesā hāenuu nau nejaanuu hanadedaunau;

3 Hasethajaunau hethadee heee nananenau jea, vavesethaugudenau vahee hayauhuhau hehetheejasesee hadnewauthaunauwunathane nedānee, javaānethadee Theauthenus,

4 Hadeaenauwu hethauwuu hena hayauhuhau nesechauhauthehane.

5 Hena hese Herod, naja Judea, jasaa vevethahehe Zacharias haseede, hadauchunanede Abia: nau henene hedaunāhene Aarauneau, nau heneseedaunin Elisabeth.

6 Nau haenesauuthāhenauau hathaāhenith Hejavaneauthu, thaunaugudethee vahee nanavaavedaunau nau hauchuwudaunau Vahadāde dejauthauwuvade.

7 Nau hehauwunesaunenauau, hanau henee hehauwunesaune Elisabeth; nau wauwu haenesauu vaehahenenauau.

8 Nau hethauwuu, henee daunausuvadanedaude hathaāhenith Hejavaneauthu hāenauauchaude,

9 Nesedaunethe vevethahehehau, nesedaude hadnejaāde yehauthe hevadannauauwunene Vahadāhenith.

10 Nau haunauude henanedanede haevevethahedaune jathee nauauchuu jaa.

11 Nau haenauhauva hautheaune Vahadāde haetheaugune hejavese jaanaa.

12 Nau hāenauhauwaude Zacharias, haejanethajau, nau nāthajaude haeedasaa.

13 Hau nuu hautheaune, jevanāthajau hathāhuk, Zacharias: havevethahede nanedauwuhuu; nau hadasea Elisabeth hadjanesewaude hāau, nau Jaun hadeseau.

14 Nau nananin hadaunauwuthajau nau hadeneethajau; nau hadnewauthathee neethajauthee hāejanesee.

15 Hanau haudvasāthaa hathaāhenith Vahadāhenith, nau haudnehauwuvane daudause dadajevenenaje, wauāthe neauthunaje; nau haudnechauchaunaudede Hevadanauwauthauwunene Hejavaneauthu, haa hehethee hāejanesee.

16 Nau haudnewauthaa dāeyaunenede Israel hadjaechuwauyāaunaude hesee Vahadāhenith Henesaunaunenau.

17 Nau haudnedauwaunaude nauguu Vadanauwauthauwu nau neesenaudāhenith Elias hadjaechuwauyāauau vadauhau henesaunaunenau hesee dāeyaunauauau nau nejenedauvathee gaugauuthajaudenau hadauethadee; hadnesaanudede henanedanede hesanaa hesee Vahadāhenith.

18 Nau Zacharias naudedusaene nuu? wauwu vanaehahenenau nau nadasea wauwu vadavehahenede, hathauhuk hautheaune.