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017 - Iks-i'-kwo-yi-a-tuk-tai Swift Current River · Blackfeet Tales of Glacier National Park

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  Speaker 1: Section seventeen of black Feet Tales of Glacier National Park
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  Speaker 1: by James Willard Schultz. This LibriVox recording is in the
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  Speaker 1: public domain. Section seventeen ixe Quotia tuck Tie Swift Current River,
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  Speaker 1: September First. We moved up here the other day and
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  Speaker 1: mate camp beside one of the most lovely lakes in
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  Speaker 1: all this rocky mountain country. In my time we called
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  Speaker 1: it beaver Woman's Lake. It is now MacDermott Lake. And
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  Speaker 1: what a name that is for one of nature's gems.
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  Speaker 1: There are names for other lakes and peaks here just
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  Speaker 1: as bad as that, but we shall have nothing to
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  Speaker 1: say about them here. Only by an act of Congress
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  Speaker 1: can we get what we want done. And we have
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  Speaker 1: faith that within a reasonable time all these mountains and
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  Speaker 1: lakes and streams will bear the names of great chiefs,
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  Speaker 1: medicine men, and warriors who traversed them before the white
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  Speaker 1: men came. Some of us, all excepting our two old
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  Speaker 1: men and the women, have been riding over the different
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  Speaker 1: trails here, viewing the glaciers and other places of interest,
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  Speaker 1: especially Iceberg Lake, where we saw a mass of ice
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  Speaker 1: as large as a house. Part from the glacier, splash
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  Speaker 1: down into the deep lake and disappear, and after a
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  Speaker 1: time come up from the depths to the surface and
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  Speaker 1: create another commotion of the waters. It was a grand sight.
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  Speaker 1: Tail Feathers coming over the hill says that the lake
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  Speaker 1: with the unpronounceable white man's name mac Dermott should be
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  Speaker 1: called Jealous Women's Lake. That away back in the days
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  Speaker 1: of his youth, when the Kutenai Indians occasionally came to
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  Speaker 1: camp and hunt with the Blackfeet, he had a youthful
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  Speaker 1: friend of the mountain tribe who told him the following
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  Speaker 1: story the Jealous Women and of Section seventeen y