My Matrilineal Peuwpeuw

My motherland is call Feni

I belong to my mother's clan Korafi

I belong to my mother's Hausboi Natem

To get through life we have to faim tem (work together)

 

My mother's brother I call kang

My mother's sister I call dong

My brothers are my fefneklik

My sisters are my kisiklik

 

My mother's uncles I call koko

My mother's only sister is Tinwok

My grandmother is Tinbutut

Their relatives extend from Famanon to Nambutu

 

My mother's brother is my maimai

He is in charge of our hausboi and nal (land)

Our lifestyle is represented by the women's dikanfeuw (open coconut baskets)

And this, this is my matrilineal peuwpeuw (traditional story)

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