Gatschet.] ^"o [Dec. 18, 



Satirical Song, Mocking the Inhabitants op Meqtlakqatla Emi- 

 grating with Mr. Duncan to Alaska. 



1. Oyeya, oyeya, a. 

 Oyeya, oyeya, a. 



Gyila/dsE wigya'tgEn. 

 Do not (future^ be you homesick. 



AtsEda la'yegEn, tsEda suwii'dEn. 



When you will leave, when will he you a Tongas woman. 



2. Oyeya, oyeya, a. 

 Oyeya, oyeya, a. 



Me tsE g'ara yfi'wus di 

 You will only send a present also 



Atl gEne'guatl ndE sineksa'k. 



Of preserved" berries kept in grease bag (sea-lion guts). 



3. Oyeya, oyeya, a. 

 Oyeya, oyeya, a. 



Gyila na wi htVutgEn I 



Do not (past) you cry ! 



Wul gyinad'a's Caledonia. 

 Because they left behind Caledonia. 



Tlatsede qga'nEgEn. 



When you will have eaten rotten salmon heads. 



4. Oyeya, oyeya, a. 

 Oyeya, oyeya, a. 



Gyila'na wa ka'dEU da 

 Do not be foolish 



Go lEbElt ha'usEm da Indian E'edzEn. 



Who against you talk the Indian Agent. 



A MYTJIIC TALE OF THE ISLETA INDIANS. 



By Albert S. Gatschet. 



(Read before the American Philosophical Society, December 18, 1891.) 



The study of the Indian languages of New Mexico has been neglected 

 more than that of other sections of our wide territory and it is with much 

 satisfaction that I present in print the first continuous text worded in one 

 of them, that of Isleta Pueblo. It is a dialect of the Tewan, or, as it is 

 called in J. W. Powell's classification, the Tafioan family, with a transla- 

 tion and with a paraphrasis, which is more comprehensible to the general 



