Mrs. Maggie Achenam | Mrs. Maggie Achenam |
(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. |