TETON TEXT 



Spider's Adventure with the Water Monster 



[Originally transcribed by George Bushotter, a Dakota] 



Ik'to'^ 



Spider 

 And then 



he'c'es ^ 



it happened 



wana' 



now 



wana 



now 



'^ ka'k'ena* isna'la^ oma'ni-ya'ha'' ^ 



in a certain alone traveling was going 



c'c^'soke** 



forest 



place 



iya'za 



from one 

 to another 



wol-ya'ha°.^°'« 



eating was 

 going. 



Yu^'k'a'^' 



And then 



sk'e.' 



itissnid. 



ak'e' 



again 



water on the other side 



wak'pa'la " o'huta^^ eP ina'zi" " na niAni' k'owa'kata'^ha" ^^ ya-c'i 



river shore or there he stood and 



edge 



keya's ^'^ to'k'ani ^* iya'ye ^^ sni na 



although there was he inight start not, and 

 no way 



heya'ha'^ ^^ 



he was saying 

 as follows 



"25 



sk'e,^ 



it is said, 



to go wished 



"To'ki°^i 



"Oh that 



kowa'kata°i5 ma'^ka'^^ ni^^ ec'i'^'c'i^ ^^ nawa'zi'^,"^^ eya'.'« Yu'^'k'a'' 



on the other side I sit might thinking this I stand," he said. And then 



often 



1 A shortened form of Ik'to'mi (the Spider), who is the great trickster and charlatan among the 

 Dakota. 



^he'c'ii HE THAT; c'a SORT; -i emphatic. 



^u'ana' perhaps contains the pa.ssive prefix wa-. 



* ka demonstrative indicating something that happened at a remote time or in a remote place; k'e t'a 

 SORT or kind; na probably a locative particle used instead of -I to indicate that he was already at the 

 place where the event happened. 



5 la- diminutive suffix. 



^0- prepositional prefix meaning in, the idea being that the traveling was done within a certain 

 region; when there is a definite object in view the form is icima'ni; ya motion away in general, as 

 distinguished from starting and arriving; -ha^ continuative suffix. 



' ik'e quotative. 



8 Introductory connective. 



sc'o'i an altered form of c'an woods; io'ka thick, the final vowel being altered in nominalizing. 



i^wol wa- SOMETHING, and yu'ta to eat, contracted into I. 



u ^va- perhaps passive prefix; -la diminutive. 



12 o- prepositional prefix; hii'ta shore. 



13 e demonstrative; -I motion to that place. 



M i- prepositional prefix indicating purpose; Tia- instrumental prefix indicating action done with 

 the foot; iin to stand. 

 16 k'owa'ka on the other side of the river; -tan from; -ha" continuing to be. 



16 A compound verb; c'in to wish. 



17 Iceya'^; ke'ya usually equivalent to something and the emphatic suffix -i. 



18 <o indefinite demonstrative; ca sort or kind, which is altered to k'a after o, and a syllable ni 

 often suffixed to adverbs of this kind when the verb is followed by the negative particle. It may be 

 the stem of the verb ni to live. 



wThis seems to contain the ordinary stem of the verb to go and the causative auxiliary. Final o 

 is altered to e before &ni. 

 ">/ic demonstrative referring to what follows; ya to go; -han continuative. 

 '1 to indefinite demonstrative; ki" perhaps the definite article. 

 ^^ma- objective pronominal prefix before yan'ka. 

 "The sign of the optative. 



^ e demonstrative; c'in to wish, duplicated to show repetition of the mental process. 

 55 «a TO DO WITH the FOOT; wa- subjective personal pronominal prefix; iin to stand. 

 26 e demonstrative; stem ya. 



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