Hočąk Text — Battle of the Night Blessed Men and the Medicine Rite Men
narrated by Jasper Blowsnake|
e
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A Ko se d
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w o ne de.
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m K ni s.
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E
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hagorežą
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wa'úneže.
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Mąkąnira
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[They]
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once
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[they were the ones who did it.]
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The Medicine [Rite] men
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A Ae xo s
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w Ki w rA
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Ai se de.
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Ki di
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A Ko se d
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Hąhexora
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wakiwasą
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hireže.
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Giži
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hagorežą
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the Night Blessed
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žealous
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they were.
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And
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one day
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w o ne de.
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m K ni s.
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A Ae xo ls.
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wi dK tti o
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wa'úneže.
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Mąkąnira
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Hąhexopra
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wišgaji'ų
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[they were the ones who did it.]
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The Medicine [Rite] men
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the Night blessed
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to play tricks
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w Ki do.
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o ne Ktt
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ayi se de.
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m K ni s
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wyi se de.
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wakižu
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'ųnekja,
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aireže.
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Mąkąnira
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waireže.
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with
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they would do,
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they said.
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The Medicine [Rite] men
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they said [it].
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A Ae xo ls
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o ne n.
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a Kow Ki n Ki se n.
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m K ni s.
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Hąhexopra
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'ųneną.
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Aguwakinąkireną.
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Mąkąnira
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The Night blessed men
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they were willing.
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They sat opposite.
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The Medicine [Rite] men
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wi dK tti o ne n.
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e Ki
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so dtt ne s.
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Ai dK K
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o ne n.
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wišgaji'ųneną.
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Égi
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rušjanera
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hišgaga
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'ųneną,
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they played tricks.
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And
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they got through
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[in turn]
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[they did,]
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A Ae xo s
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w o ne n
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A Ae xo ls
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e
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Ao s ttAe s
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Hąhexora
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wa'ųneną.
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Hąhexopra
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e
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horačera
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the Night blessed ones
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they did it.
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The Night blessed
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[they]
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more
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w o n
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m K ni s.
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w n ne n
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e rKe.
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m K ni s.
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wa'ųną.
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Mąkąnira
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wanąneną.
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Ésge
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Mąkąnira
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they did it.
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The Medicine [Rite] men
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they were defeated.
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So
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The Medicine [Rite] men
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w n Ke we n.
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w dA Kiwi Ko tti se Ki
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dKe
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A Ke
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tee
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wanąkeweną,
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wašagwigujiregi,
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ške
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hąké
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t'e
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they feared them,
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because they shot them with claws,
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but
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not
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to kill
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w Ai so xAo so Ki s ni Ki
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e rKe
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w n K w se de.
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e Ki
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m K ni n K
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wahiruxurugiranįgi,
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ésge
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wanąkawareže.
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Égi
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Mąkąninąka
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they could not do it,
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therefore
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they were afraid of them.
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And
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the Medicine Rite men
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Ao tee Ai s
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tt rKe
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w Ki Ki
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n i
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o ne Ki
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hot'ehira
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jasge
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wagigi
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ną'į
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'ųnegi,
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they could kill
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[how]
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[they made it]
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to wish
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[as they did,]
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e rKe
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m K ni s
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wo so tti rs
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Ai lAe se ri se n
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de n K n
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ésge
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Mąkąnira
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worujisra
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hiperezireną.
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Ženąganą.
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so
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the Medicine Rite men
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to be inferior
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[they were known].
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This is all.
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Jasper Blowsnake, "Hicjaxíri Waci", in Paul Radin, Winnebago Notebooks (Philadelphia: American Philosophical Society, n. d.) Notebook 23: 192-195. A phonetic text only is found in Paul Radin, Winnebago Notebooks (Philadelphia: American Philosophical Society, n. d.) Notebook 69: 36 (s 469)-37.