Boas] KUTENAI TALES 133 
A few days after they had broken camp | in winter, Ya.uk"e’;ka‘m was 
down below. The people did not know | that Ya.uk"e’;ka:m’s mother 
had gone | down into the water, and that Ya.uk"e’;ka‘m was born’ 
there | and had come from the water. Now, when they had thrown 
Ya.uk"e’;ka'm | into the water in winter, then the fish ate him | be- 
cause he was dead. Therefore the fish did so. || They ate up his body. 
Ya.uk"e’;ka‘m knew at once that the fish | were eating of his feet, 
and he kicked them. He said: | ‘‘Why are you eating me?’’ The 
fish said to him: “We are |.not angry at you. Why do you kick 
us? | We are restoring you.” Then Ya.ukte’;ka‘m knew himself.'| 
The fishes said to him: ‘“‘Go ashore! You shall go. | The people 
went in that direction. | Don’t think that it is a long time since they 
broke camp. | Crane dragged a young tree along to cover their tracks. 
They thought you would not know which way they went.” | Then 
Ya.uk"e’;ka°m went ashore to the village site. He looked at it || and 
saw which way they had gone. He started. After about | three or 
four days he saw a village site. He saw that there was | some fire 
left at the village site. He knew that they had started from there 
early in the morning. | He started and went along. He heard 
Crane | singing. He reached him,and said to him: ‘What are you 
doing || with that young tree?’”’ Crane said: ‘Several days ago | 
Ya.uk"e’;ka°m was killed and was thrown into the water. ‘We are 
afraid he may | come back to life, and he will go the way we are 
going and will kill everybody. | I have been told to drag along this 
young tree, so that, if he should come back to life, | he may not rec- 
ognize the trail.’ Then (Ya.uk"e’;ka‘m) knocked || Crane down. 
Ya.uke’;ka°m went on, and reached | Crane’s wife. Then he knocked 
her down. He started, and saw | somebody going along. He 
reached that person, and saw that it was his sister-in-law. | She went 
along crying. She said: “ My brother-in-law Ya.uk"e’;ka‘m used to 
take me along this way. | The people were afraid of him,|| and the 
other day they killed him. Now Iam poor. Iam hungry, | for the 
people are not afraid of him. My husband’s brother is no more.” | 
She carried her child on her back. Her child’s name was Duck.? | 
Ya.uk"e’jka‘m poked the child with a stick. The child looked at 
him | and saw him; and Duck said to his mother: || “Uncle Ya.u- 
ke’; ka‘m is here.’”? Then the mother of Duck turned around and 
looked. | There was a tree, and Ya.uke’;ka‘m had gone behind it | 
when his sister-in-law tooked at him. There was nothing there. 
The woman thought | her child had told a he. She struck him. 
She said to him: “Oh, | don’t you know how I feel because my 
brother-in-law has been killed? || The people make us suffer.”’ | She 
was crying while she was naming Ya.uk"e’;ka‘m; | and Ya.uk%e’;ka°m 
1 Probably ‘‘ came to his senses.” 2 Species unknown. 
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