Pikutch | Pikutch |
(1)wîhtikôhkânak kîh-sipwêhtêwak. mâcîwak. nipahêwak mostoswa. êkos îsi nayôhtamwak wiyâsah. môskîstawâwak; iyahciyiniwa. |
(1)The Windigo-Dancers had gone off. They were hunting. They killed a buffalo. Now they were carrying the meat. They were attacked; Blackfoot. |
(2)«êkâ wiya wêpinamok kâ-nayôhtamêk!» |
(2)«Do not drop what you are carrying!» |
(3)tâpwê kahkiyaw wêpinamwak. |
(3)Accordingly they dropped it all. |
(4)«êkâ wiya nîmihitotân!» |
(4)«Let us not dance!» |
(5)«êkâ wiya wîhkwêwikâpawik!» |
(5)«Do not stand in a circle!» |
(6)naspâc âsay ôm ê-kîh-pîkiskwêcik: «êkâ wiya nîmihitotân!» |
(6)It was by contraries that they said this: «Let us not dance!» |
(7)hâ, êkosi êkwah awa nikamôw êkwah. haw, êkwah nîmihitôwak. êkwah tawâyihk nîpawiw êh-nikamot. pâskiswâwak; iyahciyiniwah. nîmihitôwak. pâskiswêwak ôki. |
(7)So then the leader sang. Then they danced. In the center stood the one who sang. They were shot at; the Blackfoot did it. They danced. These people were shooting at the others. |
(8)«haw, êkâya pâskisôhkok!» |
(8)«Well, do not shoot at them!» |
(9)naspâc mîna pîkiskwêwin êyako. pêyak nipahêwak iyahciyiniwa. êkos îsi otinêwak wiyawâw. nam âwiyak miswâw. êkos îsi takosinwak mikiwâhpihk. âpatopayiwak. pêyakwan êkosi tôtamwak wîkiwâhk êh-takosihkik. pîhtêyas wîkiwâw êh-cimatêyik, nâpêwa ostikwân kâ-npahâcik isiwêpinamwak, ispimihk ohci ôma macêkin. awa nâpêw kâ-nipahiht ocihciy ê-manisikâtêyik êyako, osâm kisiwâk êh-pêy-itohtêyit oskinîkiwa, êyako nâpêw ocihciy, êwako êy-ohci-pakamahwât oskinîkiwa, iskwêwa mîna; âtiht nâpêw ositah êh-manisikâtêyik êwako, osâm kisiwâk êh-pêy-itohtêt iskwêw, êwako osit êwako êw-ohci-pakamahoht. mistahi kostam êh-wâpahtahk iskwêw osit, nâpêw osit, êw-ohci-pakamahoht aw oskinîkiskwêw. âtiht ostikwân awa nâpêw iyahciyiniw, âtiht iskwêwak miyâwak oma ostikwân. êkosi nikamôw nâpêw êh-miyiht ostikwân. |
(9)This too was a speech by contraries. They killed one Blackfoot. Then they got hold of him. No one was hit. So they arrived at the camp. They came with the scalp. They kept on doing that way when they arrived at their camp. Where their lodge stood, in the middle of the camp-circle, they suspended the head of the man they had killed, at the top of their tipi. The hand of the man who had been killed was cut off, and when a young fellow came too near, with that human hand he would strike the young fellow, or the woman; some of them cut off the man's foot, and, when a woman came too near, she would be struck with that foot.* The woman would be in great fear of the foot, the human foot, with which the young woman was struck. Among some the head of that man, that Blackfoot, would be given to the women. She would sing, to whom the human head was given. |
(10)pîkiskwêw: «iskwêtik, anohc nîmihitotân, wîhtikôhkânak kâ-nipahâcik iyahciyiniwa; kamâciwisimotân!» |
(10)She would speak: «Women, now let us dance, since the Windigo-Dancers have killed a Blackfoot; let us dance the victory-dance!» |
(11)tâpwê nikamôw nâpêw. iskwêwak nikamôwak; mina nîmihitôwak. miywêyihtamwak. mistahi nîmihitôwak, tâpiskôc ômisi êh-tôtahkik, êh-tômihkwêcik, ê-miywêyihtahkik, awâsisak êh-kitâpahkêcik, êh-kiskinawâpahkêcik, iskwêsisak mih êwakonik êh-kitâpahkêcik, êh-miywêyihtahkik. |
(11)So a man would sing. The women sang; they danced. NO GLOSS They danced much, doing like this, painting their faces, and rejoicing, while the children looked on and learned by the example of their elders, even the little girls looking on, and rejoicing. |
(12)êkoyikohk. |
(12)That is all. |