1. common noun. true telling; story; history; teaching narrative; 'myth'
Ap'ap'axdu heelda adaawx. I remember lots of stories.
Heelda adaawg̱a ap'ap'axdu. I remember lots of history.
Adawxs Łgu Sgyen dm k'a yaatu. The story I'm going to tell you is about Little Pitch.
![Cora Robinson, Hartley Bay, photo by Margaret Anderson, 1979. missing: ../jpgs/4tsm-wmn/cora3.jpg](../jpgs/4tsm-wmn/cora3.jpg)
Cora Robinson, Hartley Bay, photo by Margaret Anderson, 1979.
2. intransitive verb. tell an oral history
Yagwa adawxs dz'i'is da k'am. Dz'i'is is telling us an adaawx.