English Translation

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p. 101 --

'Éki	c'áknîwî´ra	mâ´xi	wâkréki	k'ox
[And]	the parents	sky	up	noise

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hujè,	'aî´renâ.	Tc'îók'isákreki	k'inîpkí.	Tc'axcepra
it came,	[it is said.]	To the center of the lodge	it often came.	Eagle

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sâtcâ´xtcî´jâ*	wa'ûâ´kce,	'aî´renâ.	Te'é	Hâ´pamânî´ra
a very great one	they did,	they said.	This	Walks in the Day

*for sâdjâxdjîjâ.

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p. 102 --

xeterá	herejé,	'aî´renâ.	'é	wâ´katc'ókinî	rehiáwinâ	tc'oníra	herejé,
the great	it is,	[it is said].	[He]	the leader	[sent to us]	the first	he was,

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'aî´renâ.	'Éki	hinûprá	horá	tc'ât'î´
[it is said.]	And	the second one	the voice	heard

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'ûjé,	'aî´renâ.	Nâk'í	sakrétcâ	hip'á
it was,	[it is said.]	[Having sat ?]	on a tree*	that far**

*the translation has, "from a tree".
**the translation has, "halfway".

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p. 103 --

homâctcára	hanî´	hujé,	'aî´renâ.	Tc'îók'isákreki
power	bringing	he came,	[it is said.]	In the center of the lodge

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k'inîpcé,	'aî´renâ.	Zikskáxtc'îjâ	je.	Je'é
he lay flat and spread out,	[it is said.]	A [very] white squirrel	[.]	That one

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wâ´katc'ókinî	rehiáwira	hinûprá	herejé,	'aî´renâ.
the leader	[sent to us]	the second	[he was,]	[it is said.]

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'Éki	jiké	hitanî´ra	skaxtcî´je,	'aî´renâ.
And	[again]	the third	it was pure white	it is said.

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p. 104 --

Hatcará	k'arap'îeskeje,	'aî´renâ.	Tc'îókisakreki	kinîpcé,
It looked	it was pretty,	[it is said.]	The center of the lodge	it filled,

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'aî´renâ.	Wicuksíkra	hitanî´ra	'éki
it was said.	Weasel	the third	and

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jiké	raprá	hitcoprá	herejé,	'aî´renâ.
[again]	the beaver	the fourth	it was,	[it is said.]

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'Éki	waî´hakrá	'aî´renâ.	Tocâ´nâkra	wiaghép'huréki
[And]	snow top	[they say.]	Otter	where the sun rises

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p. 105 --

móp'aséja	tcekí	étca	hujé,	'aî´renâ.
from the corner of the earth	youngest	there	he came,	[it is said.]

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Skaxtc'î´	tocánakra	wirúk'ânârá	wa'ûâ´kce,	'aî´renâ.
Pure white	otter	the leader	he was,	[it is said.]

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Je'é	wâ´katc'ókinì	rektcáwinâ	hîwániâtcâ´re.	'é
[These]	leaders	[they would be going]	we had them.	They

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p. 106 --

heréreje,	'aî´renâ.	Tc'ekétc'a	nî'âp'ireje,	'aî´renâ.
it is,	it is said.	From the beginning	they were alive,	[they say.]

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'éki	mâxínakréki	k'erátc'orá	mâxískara	horok'í
And	[where the clouds lie]	the blue sky	the white clouds	together

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hap'orokcé,	'aî´renâ.	Je'é	'é	mârá
rolled up,	[it is said.]	That	it	the arrow

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p. 107 --

'aî´renâ.	Mâk'â´nî	mârá,	je'é	nâtcké
[it is said.]	The medicine men	the arrow,	that one	heart

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k'ûhá	wâ´kakik'ânâkirawíje,	'aî´renâ.	'Éki	mârá	tc'ât'î´
under	the one that they put there,	[it is said].	And	the arrows	apparently

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wahéktc'anaháwire.*	Worákra	hiwahawiránaka	hi'ûktcáwi	jeskéje,
we were giving to them.	The story	we show it and	we will do it	[in this way,]

*an initial /y/ was crossed out and /w/ written above it.

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p. 108 --

'aî´renâ.

[it is said.]

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Source:

Amelia Susman, Notebooks (Philadelphia: American Philosophical Society, January, 1939) Book 8:101-108.