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03 - Kŭt-O-Yĭs´, The Blood Boy · Blackfeet Native American Stories

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  Speaker 1: Chapter three of black Feet Indiane Stories. This is a
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  Speaker 1: Recording by M. C Y. Black Feet Indune Stories by
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  Speaker 1: George B. Grenelle. Chapter three, cut o'yeaes the blood Boy.
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  Speaker 1: As the children whose ancestors came from Europe have stories
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  Speaker 1: about the heroes who killed wicked and cruel monsters like
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  Speaker 1: Jack the Giant Killer, for example, so the Indian children
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  Speaker 1: hear stories about persons who had magical power and who
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  Speaker 1: went about the world destroying those who treated cruelly or
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  Speaker 1: killed the Indians of the camps. Such a hero was
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  Speaker 1: cut oez and this is how he came to be
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  Speaker 1: alive and to travel about from place to place, helping
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  Speaker 1: the people in destroying their enemies. It was long long
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  Speaker 1: ago down where two medicine and badger rivers come together.
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  Speaker 1: An old man lived with his wife and three daughters.
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  Speaker 1: One day there came to his camp a young man,
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  Speaker 1: good looking, a good hunter, and brave. He stayed in
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  Speaker 1: the camp for some time, and whenever he went hunting,
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  Speaker 1: he killed game and brought in great loads of meat.
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  Speaker 1: All this time the old man was watching him, for
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  Speaker 1: he said in his heart, this seems a good young
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  Speaker 1: man and a good hunter. Perhaps i'll give him my
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  Speaker 1: daughters four wives, and then he'll stay here and help
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  Speaker 1: me always. After a time, the old man decided to
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  Speaker 1: do this, and he gave the young man his daughters.
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  Speaker 1: And because these three were his only children, he gave
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  Speaker 1: his son in law his dogs and all his property,
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  Speaker 1: and for himself and his wife he kept only a
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  Speaker 1: little lodge. The young man's wives tanned plenty of cowskins
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  Speaker 1: and made a big, fine lodge, and in this the
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  Speaker 1: son in law lived with his wives for some time.
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  Speaker 1: After this, the son in law was very good and
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  Speaker 1: kind to the old people. When he killed any animal,
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  Speaker 1: he gave them part of the meat and gave them skins,
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  Speaker 1: which his mother in law tanned for robes or for clothing.
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  Speaker 1: As time went on, the son in law began to
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  Speaker 1: grow stingy, and pretty soon he gave nothing to his
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  Speaker 1: father in law's lodge, but kept everything for his own. Now,
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  Speaker 1: the sun in law was a person of much mysterious power,
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  Speaker 1: and he kept to the buffalo hidden under a big
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  Speaker 1: log jam in the river. Whenever he needed food and
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  Speaker 1: wished to kill anything. He would take his father in
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  Speaker 1: lave with him to help. He would send the old
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  Speaker 1: man out to stamp on the log jam and frighten
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  Speaker 1: the buffalo, and when they ran out from under it,
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  Speaker 1: the young man shoot one or two with his arrows,
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  Speaker 1: never killing more than he needed. But often he gave
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  Speaker 1: the old people nothing at all to eat. They were
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  Speaker 1: hungry all the time, and at length they began to
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  Speaker 1: grow thin and weak. One morning early the young man
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  Speaker 1: asked his father in law to come and hunt with him.
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  Speaker 1: They went to the log jam, and the old man
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  Speaker 1: drove off the buffalo, and his son in law killed
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  Speaker 1: a fat buffalo cow. Then he said to his father
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  Speaker 1: in law, hurry back now to the camp, and tell
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  Speaker 1: your daughters to come and carry home the meat, and
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  Speaker 1: then you can have something to eat. The old man
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  Speaker 1: set out for the camp, thinking as he walked along,
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  Speaker 1: now at last my son in law has taken pity
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  Speaker 1: on me. He would give me some of this meat.
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  Speaker 1: When he returned with his daughters, they skinned the cow
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  Speaker 1: and cut it up, and, carrying it, went home. The
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  Speaker 1: young man had his wife's leave the meat at his
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  Speaker 1: own lodge and told his father in law to go home.
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  Speaker 1: He did not give them even a little piece of
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  Speaker 1: the meat. The two older daughters gave their parents nothing
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  Speaker 1: to eat, but sometimes the youngest one had pity on
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  Speaker 1: them and took a piece of meat, and when she could,
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  Speaker 1: threw it into the lodge to the old people. The
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  Speaker 1: son in law had told his wives not to give
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  Speaker 1: the old people anything to eat. Except for the good
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  Speaker 1: heart of the youngest daughter, they would have died of hunger.
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  Speaker 1: Another day, the sun in law rose early in the
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  Speaker 1: morning and went over to the old man's lodge and
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  Speaker 1: kicked against the poles, calling to him, get up now
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  Speaker 1: and help me. I wanted to go and stamp on
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  Speaker 1: the log jam to drive out the buffalo. When the
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  Speaker 1: old man moved his feet on the jam and a
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  Speaker 1: buffalo ran out, the son in law was not ready
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  Speaker 1: for it, and he passed by him before he shot
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  Speaker 1: the arrow, so he only wounded it. It ran away,
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  Speaker 1: but at last it fell down and died. The old
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  Speaker 1: man followed close after it, and as he ran along
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  Speaker 1: he came to a place where a great clot of
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  Speaker 1: blood had fallen from the buffalo's wound. When he came
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  Speaker 1: to where this clot of blood was lying on the ground.
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  Speaker 1: He stumbled and fell and spilled his arrows out of
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  Speaker 1: his quiver, And while he was picking them up, he
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  Speaker 1: picked up also the clot of blood and hid it
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  Speaker 1: in his quiver. What are you picking up, called the
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  Speaker 1: son in law. Nothing, replied the old man. I fell
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  Speaker 1: down and spilled my arrows, and I am putting them back.
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  Speaker 1: Old man, said the son in law. You are lazy
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  Speaker 1: and useless. You no longer help me. Go back now
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  Speaker 1: to the camp and tell your daughters to come down
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  Speaker 1: here and help carrying in this meat. The old man
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  Speaker 1: went to the camp and told his daughters of the
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  Speaker 1: meat that their husband had killed, and they went down
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  Speaker 1: to the killing ground. Then he went to his own
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  Speaker 1: lodge and said to his wife, hurry, now, put the
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  Speaker 1: stone kettle on the fire. I have brought home something
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  Speaker 1: from the killing ah, said the old woman. Has our
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  Speaker 1: son in law been generous and given us something nice
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  Speaker 1: to eat? No, replied the old man, But hurry and
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  Speaker 1: put the kettle on the fire. After a time, the
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  Speaker 1: water began to boil, and the old man turned his
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  Speaker 1: quiver upside down over the pot, and immediately there came
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  Speaker 1: from it the sound of a child crying as if
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  Speaker 1: it were being hurt. The old people both looked in
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  Speaker 1: the kettle and there they saw little boy, and they
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  Speaker 1: quickly took him out of the water. They were surprised
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  Speaker 1: and did not know where the child had come from.
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  Speaker 1: The old woman rubbed the child up and wound a
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  Speaker 1: line about his roppings to keep them in place, making
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  Speaker 1: a lashing for the child. Then they talked about it,
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  Speaker 1: wondering what should be done with it. They thought that
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  Speaker 1: if their son in law knew it was a boy,
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  Speaker 1: he would kill it, so they determined to tell their
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  Speaker 1: daughters that the baby was a girl, for then their
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  Speaker 1: son in law would think that he was going to
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  Speaker 1: have another wife, so he would be glad. They called
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  Speaker 1: the child cut o ye's clot of blood. The son
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  Speaker 1: in law and his wives came home bringing the meat,
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  Speaker 1: and after a little time they heard the child in
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  Speaker 1: the next lodge crying. The son in law said to
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  Speaker 1: his youngest wife, go over to your mother's and see
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  Speaker 1: whether that baby is a boy or a girl. If
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  Speaker 1: it is a boy, tell your parents to kill it.
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  Speaker 1: Soon the young woman came back and said to her husband,
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  Speaker 1: it is a girl baby. You are to have another wife.
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  Speaker 1: The son in law did not know whether to believe this,
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  Speaker 1: and send his oldest wife to ask the same question.
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  Speaker 1: When she came back and told him the same thing,
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  Speaker 1: he believed that it was really a girl. Then he
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  Speaker 1: was glad for he said to himself, now when this
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  Speaker 1: child has grown up, I shall have another wife. He
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  Speaker 1: said to his youngest wife, take some back fat and
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  Speaker 1: pemmican over to your mother. She must be well fed
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  Speaker 1: now that she has to nursed this child. On the
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  Speaker 1: fourth day after he had been born, the child spoke
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  Speaker 1: and said to his mother, hold me in turn to
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  Speaker 1: each one of these large poles, and when I come
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  Speaker 1: to the last one, I shall fall out of my
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  Speaker 1: lashings and be grown up. The old woman did as
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  Speaker 1: he had said, and as she held him to one
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  Speaker 1: pole after another, he could be seen to grow, and finally,
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  Speaker 1: when he was out the last pole, he was a man.
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  Speaker 1: After cut o'yez had looked about the lodge, he put
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  Speaker 1: his eye to a hole in the lodge covering and
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  Speaker 1: looked out. Then he turned around and said to the
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  Speaker 1: old people, how is it that in this lodge there's
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  Speaker 1: nothing to eat? Over by the other lodge, see plenty
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  Speaker 1: of food hanging up Hush, said the old woman, raising
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  Speaker 1: her hand. You will be heard. Our son in law
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  Speaker 1: leaves over there. He does not give us anything at
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  Speaker 1: all to eat. Well, said the young man, where is
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  Speaker 1: your episkun? Where do you kill buffalo? It's down by
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  Speaker 1: the rivers. The old woman answered, We pound on it,
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  Speaker 1: and the buffalo ran out. For some time they talked together,
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  Speaker 1: and the old man told kut o'ye is how his
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  Speaker 1: son in law had abused him. He said to the
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  Speaker 1: young man, he has taken from me my bow and
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  Speaker 1: my arrows, and has taken even my dogs. And now
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  Speaker 1: for many days we have had nothing to eat, except
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  Speaker 1: sometimes a small piece of meat that our daughter throws
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  Speaker 1: to us. Father said, kut Oez, have you no arrows? No,
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  Speaker 1: my son, replied the old man, But I still have
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  Speaker 1: four stone arrows. Points. Go off, then, said kut Oez,
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  Speaker 1: and get some wood. We will make a bow and
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  Speaker 1: some arrows, and in the morning we will go down
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  Speaker 1: to where the buffalo are and give something to eat.
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  Speaker 1: Early in the morning, kut Oiz pushed the old man
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  Speaker 1: and said, come get up now, and we will go
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  Speaker 1: down and kill. When the buffalo come out, it was
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  Speaker 1: still very early in the morning. When they reached the river,
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  Speaker 1: the old man said, this is the place to stand
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  Speaker 1: and shoot. I will go down and drive them out.
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  Speaker 1: He went down and stamped on the log jam, and
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  Speaker 1: presently a fat cow ran out and kut o Eez
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  Speaker 1: killed it. Now, after these two had gone to the river,
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  Speaker 1: the sun in law and went over to the old
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  Speaker 1: man's lodge and knocked on the poles and called to
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  Speaker 1: the old man to get up and help him kill.
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  Speaker 1: The old woman called out to the son in law, saying,
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  Speaker 1: your father in law has already gone down to the piskun.
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  Speaker 1: This made the son in law angry, and he began
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  Speaker 1: to talk badly to the old woman and to threaten
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  Speaker 1: to harm her. Presently, he went on down to the
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  Speaker 1: lock jam, and as he got near the place, he
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  Speaker 1: saw the old man at work there, bending over skinning
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  Speaker 1: a buffalo for cut o ye is. When he had
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  Speaker 1: seen the son in law coming, had lain down on
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  Speaker 1: the ground and hidden himself behind the cacas. When the
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  Speaker 1: son in law had come pretty close to where the
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  Speaker 1: buffalo lay, he said to his father in law, old man,
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  Speaker 1: stand up and look all about you. Look carefully and well,
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  Speaker 1: for it will be the last time that you will
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  Speaker 1: ever see anything and why The son in law said this,
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  Speaker 1: He took an arrow from his quiver. Cut O ee
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  Speaker 1: ea Is spoke to the old man from residing place, said,
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  Speaker 1: tell your son in law that he must take his
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  Speaker 1: last look for that you were going to kill him.
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  Speaker 1: Now the old man said this as he had been told. Ah,
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  Speaker 1: said the son in law, you talk back to me.
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  Speaker 1: That makes me still angrier at you. He put an
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  Speaker 1: arrow on the string and shot at the old man,
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  Speaker 1: but did not hit him. Cut O e Is said
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  Speaker 1: to the old man, pick up that arrow and shoot
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  Speaker 1: it back at him, and the old man did so.
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  Speaker 1: Now they shot at each other four times, and then
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  Speaker 1: the old man said to the cut o' eyes, I
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  Speaker 1: am afraid. Now get up and help me. If you
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  Speaker 1: do not, I think he will kill me. Then cut
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  Speaker 1: o Ez rose to his feet and said to the
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  Speaker 1: son in law here, what are you doing. I think
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  Speaker 1: you have been treating these old man badly for a
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  Speaker 1: long time. Why do you do it? Oh no, said
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  Speaker 1: the old son in law, and his smiled cut o
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  Speaker 1: ease in a friendly way, for he was afraid of him.
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  Speaker 1: Oh no, No one thinks more of this old man
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  Speaker 1: than I do. I have always been very good to him. No,
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  Speaker 1: said Kotoiz, you are saying what is not true, and
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  Speaker 1: I am going to kill you. Now. Cut Oyeze shot
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  Speaker 1: the son in law four times, and he fell down
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  Speaker 1: and died. Then the young man told his father to
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  Speaker 1: go and bring down to him the daughters who had
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  Speaker 1: acted badly toward him. The old man did so, and
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  Speaker 1: cut Oyez punished them. Then he went up to the
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  Speaker 1: lodge and said to the youngest woman, did you love
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  Speaker 1: your husband? Yes, said the girl, I loved him. So
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  Speaker 1: Kotoyiz punished her too, but not so badly as he
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  Speaker 1: had the other daughters, because she had been kind to
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  Speaker 1: her parents. To the old people, he said, go over
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  Speaker 1: now to that lodge and live there. There is plenty
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  Speaker 1: of food, and when that is gone, I will kill more.
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  Speaker 1: As for me, I shall make a journey. Tell me
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  Speaker 1: where there are any people in what direction shall I
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  Speaker 1: go to find a camp? Well, said the old man.
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  Speaker 1: Up here on two mets in Lodge Creek, there are
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  Speaker 1: some people up where the piscin is. You know. Good
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  Speaker 1: o' years followed up the streams to where the piscan was,
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  Speaker 1: and there found many lodges of people in the center
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  Speaker 1: of the camp was a big lodge and painted on
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  Speaker 1: it the figure of a bear. He did not go
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  Speaker 1: to this lodge, but went into a small lodge where
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  Speaker 1: two old women lived. When he had sat down, they
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  Speaker 1: put food before him, lean dry meat and some badly fat.
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  Speaker 1: How is these grandmother's? He said, Here is a camp
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  Speaker 1: with plenty of fat meat and back fat hanging up
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  Speaker 1: to dry. Why do you not give me some of that? Hush?
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  Speaker 1: Be careful, said the old woman. In that big lodge
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  Speaker 1: over there lives a big bear and his wives and children.
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  Speaker 1: He takes all the best food and leaves us nothing.
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  Speaker 1: He is the chief of this place. Eline morning cut
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  Speaker 1: o ye said to the old women, harness up your
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  Speaker 1: dogs to the travelers now, and go over to the piskun,
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  Speaker 1: and I will kill some fat meat for you. When
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  Speaker 1: they got there, he killed the fat cow and helped
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  Speaker 1: the old women to cut it up, and they took
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  Speaker 1: it to the lodge. One of those old women said,
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  Speaker 1: ah me, the bears will be sure to come. Why
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  Speaker 1: do you say that, he asked. They said to him,
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  Speaker 1: we shall be sorry to lose his back fat. Do
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  Speaker 1: not fear, he said, No one shall take this back
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  Speaker 1: fat from you. Now take all those best pieces and
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  Speaker 1: hang them up so that those who live in the
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  Speaker 1: bear lodge may see them. They did so pretty soon.
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  Speaker 1: The old bear chief said to one of these children,
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  Speaker 1: by this time, I think the people have finished killing.
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  Speaker 1: Go out now and look about, see where the nicest
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  Speaker 1: pieces are, and bring in some nice back fat. One
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  Speaker 1: of the the young bears went out of the lodge
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  Speaker 1: and stood up and looked about, and when it saw
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  Speaker 1: this meat hanging by the old woman's lodge close by,
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  Speaker 1: he went over toward it. Ah, said the old woman,
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  Speaker 1: there are those bears. Do not be afraid, said kut Oyez.
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  Speaker 1: The young bear went over to where the meat was
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  Speaker 1: hanging and stood up and began to pull it down.
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  Speaker 1: Cut o' eaves went out of the lodge and said, wait, wait,
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  Speaker 1: what are you doing taking the old women's meat. The
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  Speaker 1: young bear answered, my father told me that I should
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  Speaker 1: go out and get this meat and bring it home
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  Speaker 1: to him. Kut Oez hit the young bear over the
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  Speaker 1: head with his stick, and he ran home crying. When
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  Speaker 1: it had reached the lodge, it told what had happened,
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  Speaker 1: and the father bear said, I will go over there myself.
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  Speaker 1: Perhaps this person will hit me over the head. When
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  Speaker 1: the old women saw the father and mother bear and
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  Speaker 1: all the relations coming, they were afraid, but kut Owez
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  Speaker 1: jumped out of the lodge and killed the bears one
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  Speaker 1: after another, all except one little she bear, a very
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  Speaker 1: small one, which got away. Well, said kut o Ez,
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  Speaker 1: you may go and breed more bears. He told the
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  Speaker 1: old woman to move over to the bear painted lodge,
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  Speaker 1: and after this to live in it. It was theirs
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  Speaker 1: to the old woman. Cut Oiz then said, now, grandmother's,
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  Speaker 1: where are there any more people? I want to travel
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  Speaker 1: about and see them. The old woman said, at the
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  Speaker 1: point of rocks on some river, there is a camp.
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  Speaker 1: There is a piskun there. So cut oe is set
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  Speaker 1: off for that place. And when he came to the camp,
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  Speaker 1: he went into an old woman's lodge. The old woman
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  Speaker 1: gave him something to eat, a dish of bad food.
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  Speaker 1: Why is this, grandmother asked kut Oez. Have you no
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  Speaker 1: food better than this to give to a visitor down
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  Speaker 1: there see a piskun. You must kill plenty of buffalo
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  Speaker 1: and must have good food. Speak lower, said the old woman,
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  Speaker 1: or you may be heard. We have no good food
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  Speaker 1: because there is a great snake here who is the
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  Speaker 1: chief of the camp. He takes all the best pieces.
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  Speaker 1: He lives over there in that snake panted lodge. The
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  Speaker 1: next morning, when the buffalo were led in, cut oe
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  Speaker 1: Is killed one, and they took the back fat and
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  Speaker 1: carried it to their lodge. Then cut Oi he said,
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  Speaker 1: I think I will visit the snake person. He went
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  Speaker 1: over and went into the lodge, and there he saw
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  Speaker 1: many women that the snake person had taken to be
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  Speaker 1: his wife's. The women were cooking some service berries. Cut
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  Speaker 1: O eu Is picked up the dish and ate the
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  Speaker 1: berries and threw the dish away. Then he went up
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  Speaker 1: to the big snake, who was lying there in sleep,
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  Speaker 1: and pricked him with his knife, saying, here, get up,
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  Speaker 1: I have come to visit you. Let us smoke together.
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  Speaker 1: Then the snake was angry, and he raised up his
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  Speaker 1: head and began to rattle, and Kotoiz cut off his
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  Speaker 1: head and cut him in pieces. He cut off the
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  Speaker 1: heads of all the snakes, wives and children, all except
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  Speaker 1: one little female snake, which got away by crawling into
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  Speaker 1: a crack in the rocks. Oh well, said Kotoez. You
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  Speaker 1: can go and breed snakes so there will be more.
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  Speaker 1: The people will not be afraid of little snakes. Kut
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  Speaker 1: Oez said to the old woman, now, grandmother, go into
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  Speaker 1: the snake large and take it for your own and
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  Speaker 1: everything that is in it. Then he said to them,
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  Speaker 1: where are there some more people. They told him there
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  Speaker 1: were some camps down the river, and some up in
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  Speaker 1: the mountains. But they said, do not go up there.
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  Speaker 1: It is bad because their leaves are seen, or koki
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  Speaker 1: ween Sucker, he will kill you. Kut Oez was glad
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  Speaker 1: to know that there was such a person, and he
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  Speaker 1: went to the mountains. When he reached the place where
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  Speaker 1: Windsucker lived, he looked into his mouth and saw there
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  Speaker 1: many dead people. Some were skeletons, and some had only
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  Speaker 1: just died. He went in, and there he saw a
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  Speaker 1: fearful sight. The ground was white as snow with the
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  Speaker 1: bones of those who had died. There are bodies with
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  Speaker 1: flash on them, some who had died long before, and
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  Speaker 1: some who were still living. As he looked about, he
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  Speaker 1: saw hanging down above him a great thing that seemed
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  Speaker 1: to move, to grow a little larger, and then to
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  Speaker 1: grow a little smaller. Cut o e Is spoke to
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  Speaker 1: one of the people who was alive and asked, what
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  Speaker 1: is that hanging down above us. The person answered him,
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  Speaker 1: that is Windsucker's heart. Then cut Oez spoke to all
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  Speaker 1: the living and said to them, you who still draw
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  Speaker 1: a little breath, try to move your heads in time
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  Speaker 1: to the song that I shall sing. And you who
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  Speaker 1: are still able to move, stand up on your feet
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  Speaker 1: and dance. Take courage. Now we are going to dance
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  Speaker 1: to the ghosts. Then cut o Eez tied his knife
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  Speaker 1: point upward to the top of his head and began
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  Speaker 1: to dance, singing the ghost song. And all the others
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  Speaker 1: danced with him. And as he danced up and down,
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  Speaker 1: he kept springing higher and higher into the air, and
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  Speaker 1: the point of his knife cut Winsacker's heart and killed him.
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  Speaker 1: Then cut o Eaz with his knife, cut a hole
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  Speaker 1: between Winsocker's ribs, and he and all those who were
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  Speaker 1: able to move crawled out through the hole. He said
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  Speaker 1: to those who could still walk that they should go
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  Speaker 1: and tell their people to come here to get the
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  Speaker 1: ones still alive but unable to travel. To some of
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  Speaker 1: these people that he had freed, he said, where are
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  Speaker 1: there any other people? I want to visit all the people.
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  Speaker 1: There is a camp to the westward up the river,
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  Speaker 1: they replied, but you must not take the left hand
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  Speaker 1: trail going up, because on that trail leaves a woman
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  Speaker 1: who invites men to wrestle with her and then kills them.
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  Speaker 1: Avoid her. Now, really, this was what kut Oez was
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  Speaker 1: looking for. This was what he was doing in the world,
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  Speaker 1: trying to kill off all the bad things. He asked
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  Speaker 1: these people just where this woman lived and how it
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  Speaker 1: was best for him to go, so that he should
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  Speaker 1: not meet her. He did this because he did not
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  Speaker 1: wish the people to know that he was going where
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  Speaker 1: she was. He started, and after he had traveled some time,
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  Speaker 1: he saw a woman standing not far from the trail.
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  Speaker 1: She called to him, saying, come here, young man, come here,
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  Speaker 1: I want to wrestle with you. No, he replied, I
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  Speaker 1: am in a hurry. I cannot sob The woman called again, no, no,
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  Speaker 1: do not go on, come now and wrestle once with me.
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  Speaker 1: After she had called him the fourth time, kot o
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  Speaker 1: Ez went to her. Now, on the ground where this
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  Speaker 1: women wrestled with people, she had placed many sharp, broken
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  Speaker 1: flint stones, partly hiding them by the grass. The two
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  Speaker 1: seized to each other and began to whistle over these
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  Speaker 1: sharp stones. But cut o E's looked at the ground
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  Speaker 1: and did not step on them. He watched his chance
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  Speaker 1: and gave the woman a quick wrench and threw her
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  Speaker 1: down a large sharp flint, which cut her in two,
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  Speaker 1: and the parts of her body fell asunder cut. O
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  Speaker 1: Eas then went on and after a time came to
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  Speaker 1: where a woman had made a place for sliding down hill.
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  Speaker 1: At the far end of it. She had fixed a
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  Speaker 1: rope which when she raised it would trip people up,
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  Speaker 1: and when they were tripped, they fell over a high
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  Speaker 1: cliff into a deep water, where a great fish ate them.
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  Speaker 1: When this woman suckued o'e's coming, she cried out to him,
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  Speaker 1: come over here, young man, and slide with me. No,
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  Speaker 1: he replied, I am in a hurry. I cannot wait.
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  Speaker 1: She kept calling to him, and when she had called
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  Speaker 1: him the fourth time, he went over where she was
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  Speaker 1: to slide with her. This lighting said the woman is
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  Speaker 1: very good. Ah, yes, said cut o ez, I will
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  Speaker 1: look at it. As he went near the place, he
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  Speaker 1: looked carefully and saw the hidden rope. He began to slide,
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  Speaker 1: and holding his knife in his hand, when he reached
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  Speaker 1: the rope, he cut it just as the woman raised it.
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  Speaker 1: And pulled on it, and the woman fell over backward
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  Speaker 1: into the water and was eaten up by the big fish.
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  Speaker 1: From here he went on again, and after a time
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  Speaker 1: he came to a big camp. A man eater was
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  Speaker 1: the chief of this place. Before cut O Ez went
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  Speaker 1: to the chief's lodge, he looked about and saw little
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  Speaker 1: girl and called her to him and said, child, I'm
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  Speaker 1: going to that lodge to let that man eater kill
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  Speaker 1: and eat me. Therefore, be on the watch, and if
• 23:47
  Speaker 1: you can get hold of one of my bones, take
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  Speaker 1: it out and call all the dogs to you. And
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  Speaker 1: when they had come to you, throw down the bone
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  Speaker 1: and said, cut o e eas, the dogs are eating
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  Speaker 1: your bones. Then cut O Ez entered the lodge, and
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  Speaker 1: when the man nitter saw him, he called out Oki oki,
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  Speaker 1: welcome and welcome, and seemed glad to see him, for
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  Speaker 1: he was a faty young man. The man eater took
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  Speaker 1: a knife and walked up to cut O Ears and
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  Speaker 1: cut his throat and put him to a great stone
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  Speaker 1: pot to cook. When the meat was cooked, he pulled
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  Speaker 1: the kettle from the fire and ate the body lian
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  Speaker 1: by limb until it was all eaten. After that, the
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  Speaker 1: little girl who was watching, came into the lodge and said,
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  Speaker 1: pity me, man eitter. My mother is hungry and asks
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  Speaker 1: you for those bones. The old man gathered them together
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  Speaker 1: and handed them to her, and she took them out
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  Speaker 1: of the lodge. When she had gone a little way,
• 24:46
  Speaker 1: he called all the dogs to her and threw down
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  Speaker 1: the bones to the dogs, crying out, look out, cut
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  Speaker 1: o yeas the dogs are eating you. And when she
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  Speaker 1: said that, cut oy arose from the pile of bones again.
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  Speaker 1: He went into the lodge. And when the man eater
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  Speaker 1: saw him, he cried out, how how how the fat
• 25:05
  Speaker 1: young man had survived, and he seemed surprised. Again, he
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  Speaker 1: took his knife and cut the throat of cut O
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  Speaker 1: Ease and threw him into the kettle. Again. When the
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  Speaker 1: meat was cooked, he ate it, And when the little
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  Speaker 1: girl asked for the bones again, he gave them to her.
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  Speaker 1: She took them out and threw them to the dogs, crying,
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  Speaker 1: cut O Ease, the dogs are eating you. And again
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  Speaker 1: cut O Ease arose from the bones. When the man
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  Speaker 1: eater had cooked him four times, cut O Ease again
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  Speaker 1: went into the lodge, and, seizing the man eater, he
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  Speaker 1: threw him into the boiling kettle, and his wives and
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  Speaker 1: all his children emboiled them to death. The man eater
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  Speaker 1: was the seventh and less of the bad things to
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  Speaker 1: be destroyed by cut O eas And of Chapter three