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he also fell. He said when he fell: ‘‘The place where | my hat falls 
is to be called Ear.” || Then the chief fell and died. Natmu’qtse 
fell and was nearly dead, and nevertheless | he named one more 
place. 
Now I have told you how Nalmu’qtse, our great-great-grandfather 
generations back, died. | 
53. YA.UK°E’ KAM 
Well, I'll tell about Chief Ya.uk*e’;ka‘m, | the Kutenai, long ago. 
(a) THE BIRTH OF YA.UK°E’;KA'M 
Frog was living ina tent. There was her granddaughter, named 
Young Doe. | Young Doe went picking berries. Frog said to || her 
granddaughter: ‘Don’t go and drink at the water hole in the ice. | 
When you come into the house, drink here.”” For a few days | her 
eranddaughter did so. One day Young Doe was picking berries 
again. 
She came to be thirsty, and thought: ‘Let medrink | fromthe 
water hole.” She drank. Then a man put out his hand || to pull her 
into the water. She thought she would die. “She saw, however, there 
7 a tent where she had been taken into the water. | The man took 
her and married her. | The name of this man was White Stone. She 
staid there. | Then her husband went hunting. In the spring of the 
year she had a child. || Then the child was called Ya.uk*e’;ka‘m. His 
father and | his mother called him Ya.uk"e’;ka‘m. That man knew 
that his son would be 
was 
a chief, therefore he gave him this name. | 
Then White Stone had an elder brother. That man was bad. | He 
was quick-tempered. He was named Gray Stone. Then among 
these || brothers, Gray Stone, the one, was always angry; | the other, 
the younger one, was not angry. He had astrong| mind. Then 
Ya.uk"e’jka‘m was like stones striking together (7%). | Gray Stone 
made noise inside. Then when he went around, | Ya.uk%e’;ka°m was 
told by his mother: || ‘Your father’s brother, Gray Stone, does not 
feel good when you are here. Now you are large, go to your |. great- 
grandmother’s tent. Her name is Frog. She loves all | children 
and all big people who are her grandsons 
and her granddaughters. 
Frogismy grandmother. When you get there and she sees you, | she 
wil say to you: ‘My grandchild, let me see you and love you.’ || You 
will always play there.” | 
Then Ya.uk*e’,ka‘m started for the tent. He arrived and | looked 
in. He saw an old woman | sitting there in the rear with her back 
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