Hočąk Text — Battle of the Night Blessed Men and the Medicine Rite Men
narrated by Jasper Blowsnake
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Jasper Blowsnake |
p. 193 —
e | A Ko se d | w o ne de. | m K ni s. |
E |
hagorežą |
wa'úneže. |
Mąkąnira |
[They] |
once |
[they were the ones who did it.] |
The Medicine [Rite] men |
A Ae xo s | w Ki w rA | Ai se de. | Ki di | A Ko se d |
Hąhexora |
wakiwasą |
hireže. |
Giži |
hagorežą |
the Night Blessed |
jealous |
they were. |
And |
one day |
w o ne de. | m K ni s. | A Ae xo ls. | wi dK tti o |
wa'úneže. |
Mąkąnira |
Hąhexopra |
wišgaji'ų |
[they were the ones who did it.] |
The Medicine [Rite] men |
the Night blessed |
to play tricks |
w Ki do. | o ne Ktt | ayi se de. | m K ni s | wyi se de. |
wakižu |
'ųnekja, |
aireže. |
Mąkąnira |
waireže. |
with |
they would do, |
they said. |
The Medicine [Rite] men |
they said [it]. |
A Ae xo ls | o ne n. | a Kow Ki n Ki se n. | m K ni s. |
Hąhexopra |
'ųneną. |
Aguwakinąkireną. |
Mąkąnira |
The Night blessed men |
they were willing. |
They sat opposite. |
The Medicine [Rite] men |
p. 194 —
wi dK tti o ne n. | e Ki | so dtt ne s. | Ai dK K | o ne n. |
wišgaji'ųneną. |
Égi |
rušjanera |
hišgaga |
'ųneną, |
they played tricks. |
And |
they got through |
[in turn] |
[they did,] |
A Ae xo s | w o ne n | A Ae xo ls | e | Ao s ttAe s |
Hąhexora |
wa'ųneną. |
Hąhexopra |
e |
horačera |
the Night blessed ones |
they did it. |
The Night blessed |
[they] |
more |
w o n | m K ni s. | w n ne n | e rKe. | m K ni s. |
wa'ųną. |
Mąkąnira |
wanąneną. |
Ésge |
Mąkąnira |
they did it. |
The Medicine [Rite] men |
they were defeated. |
So |
The Medicine [Rite] men |
w n Ke we n. | w dA Kiwi Ko tti se Ki | dKe | A Ke | tee |
wanąkeweną, |
wašagwigujiregi, |
ške |
hąké |
t'e |
they feared them, |
because they shot them with claws, |
but |
not |
to kill |
p. 195 —
w Ai so xAo so Ki s ni Ki | e rKe | w n K w se de. | e Ki | m K ni n K |
wahiruxurugiranįgi, |
ésge |
wanąkawareže. |
Égi |
Mąkąninąka |
they could not do it, |
therefore |
they were afraid of them. |
And |
the Medicine Rite men |
Ao tee Ai s | tt rKe | w Ki Ki | n i | o ne Ki |
hot'ehira |
jasgé |
wagigi |
ną'į |
'ųnegi, |
they could kill |
[how] |
[they made it] |
to wish |
[as they did,] |
e rKe | m K ni s | wo so tti rs | Ai lAe se ri se n | de n K n |
ésge |
Mąkąnira |
worujisra |
hiperezireną. |
Ženąganą. |
so |
the Medicine Rite men |
to be inferior |
[they were known]. |
This is all. |
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.