(1) êkwa mîna kotak.

(1) Now another story.

(2) nitâmisoyiwa owîkimâkana. nîsôskwêwêw. kâ-nakiskawâyit oskinîkiwa, nâpêsisa, êkwa kâ-âsitêyimât.

(2) A man's wives gathered berries. He had two wives. When they met a youth or even a boy, he became jealous of him.

(3) "miyâmay kônâpêmin êwako oskinîkiw!" itêw.

(3) “I can tell that youth is your man!” he said to her.

(4) "namôya," itik; "konita ê-nakiskawak."

(4) “No,” she answered him; “I only met him by chance.”

(5) "â, namôya! ohcitaw kônâpêmin," itêw.

(5) “Oh no! You say that just because he is your man,” he told her.

(6) acosisa tahkonam awa ayahciyiniw. ê-nakiskawât owîkimâkana êkwa pêyak nâpêsisa ê-wîcêwâyit, nîkân owîkimâkana pa-pî-pimwêw.¹

êkwa nâpêsisa mîna, mîna êwakoni pimwêw; nipahêw. êkwa oskinîkiwa nitonawêw; papâ-têhtapiw sakâhk. namôya kî-miskawêw.

(6) That Blackfoot took some arrows. When he encountered his wife and a boy who was with her, first he shot arrow after arrow into his wife. Then the boy, too, him too he shot; he killed him. Then he looked for the young man; he rode about in the woods. He could not find him.

(7) êkwa, "êkây awiyak ta-otinêw ôhi kâ-nipahimak," itwêw.

(7) Then, “No one is to take up the bodies of those I have killed,” he said.

(8) owîkimâkana êkwa kotaka nâpêsisa, êwakoni mîna ê-nipahât, êkwa êkota pimisinwak, ohci ôhi awiya wî-otinâyici, ê-wî-nipahât.

(8) His wife and the boy he had slain with her would lie there then, because if anyone were going to take them up, he would kill him.

(9) êwako mîna pêyak ayahciyiniw otôtamôwin; maywês ihtakohk wiyasôwêwin êwako kâ-kî-ispayik; mêkwâc paskwâwi-mostoswa ê-ohtâpanihocik ayîsiyiniwak, ayahciyiniwak, mîna pwâsîmowak, sasîwak, kinêpikoyiniwak, kâ-otaskîwikamikowak, nahkawiyiniwak, êwako anima kâ-kî-ihkihk.²

(9) This too was a custom of the Blackfoot; before there was any law was when this took place; when the people were still living on buffalo-flesh, - the Blackfoot and the Assiniboine, the Sarsi, the Snakes, the Earth-Lodge People, the Salteaux, - that was when this took place.

Footnotes

¹NB weird reduplication

²LB on k-ôtaskîwikamikowak: I have not been able to identify this tribe.