A Study of Siouan Cults: Eleventh Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1889-1890, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1861, pages 351-544Dorsey, James Owen
Religion
A Study of Siouan Cults: Eleventh Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1889-1890, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1861, pages 351-544
Dorsey, James Owen
Siouan Indians -- Religion
niní bahá eʇá tĕ é. (The invisible being who first made
tobacco showing his the it.
the medicine was thus addressed:) Níkaciⁿga pahañ´ga makaⁿ´
Person first medicine
ícpahaⁿ niñkĕ´cĕ, [p]éjehíde ckaⁿzé niñkĕ´cĕ, niní gakĕ´! Ȼéȼu
you knew you who medicine you you who tobacco that Here
(sit), taught (sit), lg. ob.
edádaⁿ ckaⁿzé gĕ iȼápahaⁿ-majĭ´-qti wiⁿ´ áiȼágaȼaȼiⁿhé
what you taught the I do not know at all one I am carrying on
pl. my arm and in my
in. ob. hand as I move
ȼaⁿ´ja, caⁿ´edádaⁿ ctécte íwamakáaȼĕ té ă. Niní
though, yet what soever I get it easily by will ! Tobacco
means of
gakĕ´, aí níaciⁿga amá. (He then prays to the beaver:) Haú, Jábe!
that, says person the mv. Ho, Beaver!
lg. ob., sub.
Niní gakĕ´! Úbahi e‘aⁿ´ ckáxai gĕ bȼúgaqti ugígȼacaⁿ´i-gă!
Tobacco that! Feeding how you made the all travel ye in your
place them pl. own!
in ob.
Niní gakĕ´! (Next, to the medicine:) Haú, Ԁéjehíde, niní gakĕ´!
Tobacco that! Ho, Medicine, tobacco that!
lg. ob. lg. ob.
‘Aⁿ´qti ctécte waníta wiⁿ uhé eaⁿ´ȼĕ taté, eȼégaⁿ
No matter how it quadruped one pass me on the shall, thinking it
is (_or_ At any road (to the
rate) trap)
najiñ´-gă. ‘Aⁿ´qti ctécte [p]áqȼuge aⁿ´ȼaⁿská taté,
stand thou. At any rate nostrils large enough shall,
for me (i. e., to
smell me.)
eȼégaⁿ najiñ´-gă. Niní gakĕ´! (Invocation of the trap:) Haú,
thinking it stand thou. Tobacco that! Ho,
lg ob.
Maⁿ´zĕ nañkácĕ! niní gakĕ´! ‘Aⁿ´qti ctécte wiⁿ´ wat’éaȼĕ
Iron ye who (sit) tobacco that! At any rate one I kill it
lg. ob.
tá miñke, eȼégaⁿ gȼiⁿ´i-gă. (Invocation of the pack-strap:)
will I who, thinking it sit ye.
Haú, Wé‘iⁿ niñkĕ´cĕ! niní gakĕ´! Aⁿ´qti ctécte wí
Ho, Packstrap you who (sit)! tobacco that! At any rate I
lg. ob.
waníta áhigi weát‘ĕ, eȼégañ-gă. Haú, ┴ijébe íɔnugaʇá
quadruped many I touch think thou. Ho, Entrance at the right
them, side
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