Hotcâk Text -- The Song of the Mouse


This song, collected by Amelia Susman in 1939, was sung to children.


English Translation


p. 84 --
Mójunákre
p'ejé
yak'ískek'tce?
Nîkenâ´kik'tce,
[Who is put on earth]*
[who]**
to be like me will?
Anywhere they sit will be,
*the translation has, "the [one] put on earth sitting".
**the translation has "anyone". The first two words are translated as, "no one on earth".


nécâne
mâxínîkra
yak'í.
'O'ó.
I only
the little sky
I myself touch.
'O'o.


Songs. Bladder, Song about the Older Brother, v. 2, Bladder, Song about the Older Brother, v. 3, Buffalo Dance Songs, Clan Songs, Bear Clan, Clan Songs, Bear Clan, Song for Returning, Clan Songs, Bear Clan, Song for Starting Out, Clan Song, Bear Clan, Song of the Youngest, Clan Songs, Buffalo Clan, Clan Songs, Buffalo Clan, The Four Songs of Hodjanoka, Clan Songs, Deer Clan, Clan Songs, Wolf Clan, Clan Songs, Wonághire Wâkcik Clan, The Crawfish's Song, Duck Song, Farewell Songs, The Four Services Songs, Grandfather Sparrow's Rain Songs, Grizzly Bear Songs), Hare's Song to Grasshopper, Hare's Song to the Wâgepanîgera, Hare's Song to Wildcat, Hawk's Song, Herok'a Songs, Holy Song, Little Fox's Death Song, Little Fox's Death Song (for the Warpath), Little Fox's Tail Song, Nightspirit Songs, The Quail's Song, Redman's Song, Slow Song of the Herok'a, Soldier Dance Songs, Song for Calling the Buffalo, Song from the Water, Song from the Water (King Bird), The Song of Bluehorn's Sister, The Song of Sun Caught in a Net, The Song of the Boy Transformed into a Robin, Song of the Frog to Hare, Song of the Thunder Nestlings, The Song of Trickster's Baby, The Song to the Elephant, The Song to the Elephant, v. 3, The Sun's Song to Hare, Turtle's Call for a Warparty, v. 1, Turtle's Call for a Warparty, v. 2, Turtle's Four Death Dance Songs, Twins, Ghost's Song, v. 1, Twins, Ghost's Song, v. 2, Twins, Ghost's Song (The Two Brothers), Twins, the Songs of Ghost and Flesh, Twins, Song of the Father-in-Law, Victory Song, What a Turtle Sang in His Sleep, Wolf-Teasing Song of the Deer Spirits.


Source:

Amelia Susman, "Song of the Mouse", Notebooks (Philadelphia: American Philosophical Society, 1939) Book 10, Song 3, p. 84.