SONGS OF THE AKAPAHO 991 



Translation 



The crow is circling above me, 



The crow is circling above me. 



He says he will give me a hawk feather, 



He says he will give me a hawk feather. 



Tins song is very similar to number 39, and requires no further 

 explanation. It is suns T " the same quiet time. 



46. Natasi ya i iik hi mi 



Na'tami ya che'bi nli — 

 Na'tanu'ya chis'bi'nh, 

 X.-i chicha ba n. 

 N;i chicha ba n. 



Translation 



The pemmican that I am using — 

 The pemmican that I am using, 

 They are still making it. 

 They are still making it. 



This song refers to the pemmican or preparation of dried and pounded 

 meat, which formerly formed a favorite food of the prairie tribes, and 

 which the author of the sons evidently tasted as it was being prepared 

 by the women in the spirit world. (See Sioux song 7.) One must be 

 an Indian to know the thrill of joy that would come to the heart of the 

 dancers when told that sonic dreamer had seen their former friends in 

 the spirit world still making and feasting on pemmican. During the 

 tirst year or two of the excitement, it several times occurred at Ghost 

 dances in the mirth and south, anions Sioux as well as anions Arapaho 

 and others, that meat was exhibited and tasted as genuine buffalo beef 

 or pemmican brought" back from the spirit world by one of the dancers. 

 It is not necessary to explain how this deception was accomplished or 

 made successful. It is sufficient to know that it was done, and that the 

 dancers were then in a condition to believe anything. 



17. HuNAWA iia'ni'ta'quna'ni 



Hal nawa h.'i ni ta quna ni — 

 llfil nawa hji ni ta quna ni — 

 Xine'n nana' hiinita'quna'ni, 

 Niue'n nana' hlinita'quna ni. 



Translation 



I know, in the pitfall — 



I know, in the pitfall — 



It is Tallow they use in the pitfall, 



It is tallow- the\ use in the pitfall. 



This soug refers to the visimi of a northern Arapaho, who found one 

 of his friends in the spirit world preparing a pitfall trap to catch eagles. 



14 ETH — PT 2 L'.'i 



