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BoAS] KUTENAI TALES 267 
73. THe Kuyo’KweE 
Now, Ill tell how an old woman killed all the | Kuyo’kwe. | 
They were camping about. One day they camped at | Smoky 
Place, as it is called. On the following day they moved on. || Only 
one old woman remained on the village site. She was pounding 
(bones). | Therefore she did not go. On the following day she was 
going to leave | in the direction where the others had gone. Then at 
night she boiled | the bones. She was going to take the fat along. 
She thought: “Vil | boil all of them to-night. Early to-morrow morn- 
‘ing I || shall start.’’ | 
Then the Kuyo’kwe followed the tracks of the people. It was 
winter | and good traveling. The Kuyo’kwe arrived at Smoky Place. 
When they arrived | at the village site, they saw a fire burning. They 
came there, and | the warriors looked into the tent. They saw || one 
old woman. They said to one another: ‘Let us go in. | We are 
cold. . Let us stay here over night in her tent. | It is cold.” They 
entered. Theysat down. The old woman saw | the Kuyo’kwe enter. 
She saw that there were many | warriors. She was afraid. They 
took off their clothes, || their moccasins, their leggings, and their shirts, 
and dried them. The old woman arose. | She went out and brought 
in fuel. She put it on the fire. | Then there was a great fire. The 
Kuyo’kwe said: | ‘‘ The old woman is good. She knows that we are 
cold, and she makes a fire for us.’’ | The old woman went there. 
She untied a parfléche and took out lard. || She took two sticks and 
put | the fat on the fire. Then the fire blazed up. Then it melted. | 
The Kuyo’kwe laughed, and said: “That is a good | old woman. 
She knows we are cold. She makes a fire for us. She sees | that we 
are hungry, andshe prepares food for us.’’ Then | the old woman saw 
that the fat was really melted. | She just stirred it. All the Ku- 
yo’kwe were without clothing. | They were drying it. The old 
woman moved it about, and then all the grease caught fire. | The 
Kuyo’kwe jumped back. When | the old woman saw what they were 
doing, she ran out quickly. || She started to run. She took the fat 
of the bones that she was boiling. | She did not know how to hold 
the light. She was holding a torch. | She put it on her head to 
serve as a light. | When she ran out, she ran. She noticed | that the 
Kuyo’kwe said: ‘Pursue her! Strike her on the head!” || The old 
woman went out. She knew which way she was going. | The Ku- 
yo’kwe went along. It was very dark. They saw which way she 
went. | They began to know it, because she had a light. They knew 
that she had just | put a fire on her head. She did not take it off. 
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