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 (From Stephen Return Riggs, Dakota Grammar, Texts and Ethnography, Washington, 1893, p. 83 



wic*a'hpi hihpa'ya 2 



Star falls 



179 



'oya'te wq ka'k'en tH'pi'; 'u'k'q' winu'h\ca 



People a thus lived; and then women 



wic'a'hpi ki 'iye'ga wqya'kajn'. 'u'k'q' 'iyu \ma' 



star the shining they saw. Then behold! one 



wq 'iye'gehca 'e yqke' c\ he' hihna'waye c'es, 



a verily shining it being sitting the that one for husband oh if!" 



so I have 



mi's 'it l o' ka wic'a'hpi wq ki'tqna-'iyehya yqke' c{ he' hih.na'waye 



"I so now that star a little shining sitting the that one for husband 



yonder I have 



'u'k K q' 'ih.nu'hqna nupH'n 'ekta' 'awi'c'akHpi, ke'ya'pi'. 



Then suddenly both there they took them, they say. 



nu'm t'qka'n wqka'pi'; 'u'k'q' 



two outdoors lay; then 



heya" — 'ice'p'qsi 'it'o' wic'a'hpi 



said that — "Cousin, so now star 



u k q yma k% i s — 



Then other the she — 



— eya . 



— she said. 



c es — eya .— 



oh if I" — she said. 



mak'o'c'e 



Country 



'ekta' Ypi\ 



then they were. 



wq waste'hica hoksi' e'ekpa-'ozu' zuya 



a very good twin flowers growing thick 



namda'ya waste' wqka 'e 



blooming 



beautiful 



'u'k l q' wic'a'hpi wq ni'na 



Then star a very 



k'% he' k'oska' ke'ya'pi'. 



the that youth they say. 



aforesaid 



'ih.du's'aka'. mak'o'c*e ki 



was pregnant. Country the 



it lay it being 

 so 



iye'ge cik'u he' wic'a' sta-t t q'ka; k'a 



a very shining the aforesaid that man large; and 



one (full-grown) 



he'c'en k'inu'k'q hih.na'wic'ayapi'. 'u'k'q' 'uma' 



So each respectively as husbands they had them. Then one 



yma 



other 



wana' 



now 



tH'psina 'o'ta 



pomme blanche many 



bopte'kta k'es h\h.na'ku 



was going but her husband 



to dig it every time 



eya 



he said 



ece . 



regularly. 



Then 



ki t'ehi'da. — 'u'stq 



the considered it — "Stop 



hard. 



'ih.da'ka 'a'ye c'a 



moving they progressed and 



hv! waste'ste'. he'c'en wi'yq k'u wqzi' 



stalks were beautiful. So woman the aforesaid one 



wo' tuwe'dq de'c'i he'c'u sni c'e — 



imp., nobody here does not (quota- 



that tive) — 



w\ yq-'ih.dv! s'ake c\ 



woman pregnant the 



Then 



wak'e'ya 'it'i'cage c'a 



tent built tent and 



tHma'hen 



in tent 



hv! t'q'ka waste' 'e 'ai'tHcaga'; 



stalk large good it being 



over it she built 

 a tent; 



p'iye'kta 



was going it being 

 to arrange so 



u'k'q' — 'itW 



then — "Lol 



YtHpi'. 



arriving there 

 they camped. 



e Vimahen hiyu' 2 



in tent 



started to 

 come. 



V&V tH'psina 



then pommc blanche 



wq 



de' wak'a' ke. — 'ec%" 'etq'hqs 



this I dig (soliloquy)" — she thought. "From it 



indeed 



tuwe' wqma'yakeca 



who sees me rather" 



W, 



k'a h%'p*e 'icu' k'a bopte' c'a 'iyu'pta J iouf 'ic'u'hq 



— she thought, and digging she took and dug and breaking took it, meanwhile 



stick the sod 



mak*o'c*e yuo'Mog 'iye'ya, k'a 'oh.na' hiyu', k'a mak^a' k\ 'ekta' t K ezi'-kamdas hihpa'ya 



country opening sent, and in through she started and earth the there belly bursting she fell 



coming 



ke'ya'pi'. he'c*en win%'h\ca k'% Y t'a' tuk*a f hoksi'yok'opa 



they say. So woman the aforesaid it was died but child 



naga'ngata wqka". wicWhica wq 'e'n hi" hoksi'yopa k% 'icu' k'a 



kicking lay. Old man a there arrived child the he took and 



coming; 



tHya'ta kS! k'a heya" — waka^ka, ta'ku wq wqmda'ka, 'u'k^q' c*qte' masi'ce do' — 



at tent he arrived and said that — "Old woman, something a I saw, and then heart was bad m. sp." — 



going back to me 



eya". '%'k K q' Vaun'cu ki — he' ta'ku he? — 'eya". 'yfk^q' — winu'hica wq Vezi'-kamdas 



he said. Then his wife the — "That what?" — she said. Then — "Woman a belly bursting 



t'a' wqka". '%k*q' hoksi'yopa wq naga'ngata wqka"; 'ah.na' wic*a'na tuk K a' c'e — 



dead lay. Then child a kicking lay; moreover boy but quotative" — 



k% Y t'e'sni 



the it was did not die 



'itpi'h.nake c'a 



placed it in front and 



1 The grammar of the original is not always consistent; corrected according to what appears to be present usage. 

 1 Here translated literally; general meaning "to enter, to come out of a container." 



