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belly, but it did not move. Then the woman thought: *‘ Perhaps the 
elks are dead.” She arrived and struck the head of the elk. It did 
not move. She looked to see where it was. hit, but it was not hit 
anywhere. She looked at all those elks. They were all dead. They 
were burned. Then the woman went home to tell the people. She 
came to the town and said to her husband: ‘*I am afraid. I found a 
whole band of dead elks. They are lying dead on that prairie. Their 
hair is burned.” Then her husband ran to another house and said: 
**My wite found dead elks. Their hair is burned.” Then one person 
said: ‘‘Oh, last night the Thunderbird thundered. You all heard it; 
the ground shook. Maybe it burned those elks. The Thunderbird 
has done it.” Then the people went. They skinned the elks, and cut 
only the fat ones; they did not cut the lean ones. The people dried 
ya’ Xi @Xt qjoa’piX 1a’ Xkapa ta’ Xi tqagelak. Wi't’ax qatgigrlea’x 
~ that one near her at that woman. Again she took it 
ya Xi €'LaLge. Witax qatgigEltce’mx ia’ wanpa. Nii2et 
that digging stick. Again she threw at it its belly at. Not 
nixEla/lalemx. QatXLoXoa/itx ta’ Xi tqage’lak: ‘‘iXuan ixe’ra-it 
it moved, She thought that woman: “Perhaps they are 
dead 
gi imo/lpkumax.” Anigo’qoamx La’ Xi Lqagé’lak qaLngiuqoe’lXemx 
these elks.”’ She reached them that woman ~ she struck it 
ia’qjaqetaqpa ya’ Xiimo'lak. Niict nixela’lalemx, Qargiukjuma’nanEmx 
itshead on that elk, Not it moved. She looked at them 
qa’xpa ia/maq. Kja nict ia’maq. Ka’nauwe qatgiukjuma’nanEmx 
where shot. Nothing not shot. All she looked at them 
ya’ Xi imo’lekumax. Ka’nauwe 1Xf’/na-it, ka’nauwe ia’qsd ixiellt. 
~ those elks. All they were all their it was 
dead, hair burned. 
QanXkjuax na’ Xi  taqage’lak, qaLxk"Le’tegamx. Qa-iLo’yam 
She went home that woman, she went to tell. She arrived 
ina’| Xampa. AgiolXa’mx itea’ kikal wu Xi aqage’lak: 
her town at. She told him her husband that woman: 
“Qrnuqjue’xaémaLx. Inid’cgam imodpkumax iXf’'La-it. E2Xt 
“Tam seared, I found them elks they are dead. One 
ia’ Xtamala kanauwe’ iX®’La-it ta’Xi temga’emapa.  Ixrn’llt 
herd all they are dead that prairie on. It is burned 
te’yaqeo.” Nixée/ngux  itea’kikal teXt  tqu’Lipa: * Toi0/cgam 
their hair.” He ran her husband one house to: “She found them 
imo’lekumax age’/kikal; iXw’ta-it. Ka’nauwe ia’qsd ixun’llt.” 
elks my wife; they are dead. All their hair it is burned.” 
Qatge’mx Lexa’t LgoaLé TX: ‘* Xa’prX igé’xeltco ikenuwakeo’max. 
He said one person: “In the he spoke the Thunderbird. 
evening 
Megiltci’melétemtck ka’nauwe me’caika. IJotxla’lalemtck gi @LX, 
You heard it all you. It shook this ground, 
LXuan ige’Xemu_Xa ya’ Xi imo/ekumax. Ikenuwaked’max a’kua 
perhaps they are burned those elks. The Thunderbird thus 
iter’yux.” A’qa itel’ya ta-ftci té’TXam. Iqé@’yuxe ya’ Xi imo’lekumax. 
he did Then they those people. They were those elks, 
them.” went skinned 
Ta’ema ya'Xi igaya’pXeleu iqi’yuxc. Turje/lyuxt nict igqi’yuxe. 
Only those those having fat they were The lean ones not they were 
skinned. skinned. 
Kopa’ a’qa itgiXca’mit ta-ftei télXam. Ttsilqa’Lke iqn’t6x kopa’. 
There then they dried it those people. Drying frames they pit there, 
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