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prevent them wandering .away. Then, while some of the women set up 

 the tipi pules, diaw the canvas over them, and drive in the pegs around 

 the bottom and the wooden pins up the side, other women take axes 

 and buckets and go down to the creek for wood and water. When they 

 return, they find the tipis set up and the blankets spread out upon the 

 grass, and iu a few minutes fires are built and the meal is in prepara- 

 tion. The woman who composed the song evidently iu her vision 

 accompanied her former friends on such a march. 



24. A n: mi i KITE 



A te mi'chuye, 

 Ate mi'chuye, 

 Waiihi'nkpe mi'chuye, 

 W.i n hi nkpe mi chuye, 

 A'hiye, a'hiye. 

 Wa'sna wa tiiikte, 

 Wa'sna wa tinkte. 



Translation 



Father, give them to me. 



Father, give them to me, 



Give me my arrows. 



Give mi' my arrow--. 



They have come, they have come. 



I shall cat pemmican, 



I shall eat pemmican. 



The maker of this song, while in the spirit world, asks and receives 

 from the father some of the old-time arrows with which to kill buffalo, 

 so that he may once more feast upon pemmican. 



25. Hanpa wecha cue 



Hanpa wecha ghe, 

 Hanpa wecha ghe, 

 Tewa'qila-la lie, 

 Tewa'qila-la lie. 

 Wa Fibleni'chala he kaye lo, 

 Wa Fibleni'chala he kaye lo. 

 Toke cha wa uwegalaki n-kte, 

 Toke cha wa Fiwegalaki Fi-kte, 

 Nihil fi kofi he he ye lo, 

 Nihu'fi kofi he he ye lo. 



Translation 



1 made i icasins for him, 



1 made moccasins for him, 



For I love In ii i. 



For I love liim. 



To take lo the orphan, 



To take to the orphan. 



