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Before his timo the only way they had gotten their furs was with l)ow 

 and arrow. They used to chase bears with dogs and shoot them 

 after hours spent in pursuit. Now they obtained very many furs and 

 made numbers of l^hmkets out of them. 



After he hatl shown the Athapascans all these things Kake'q!"te 

 said, "Now I want to go to my native town." At first they were 

 not willing to have him leave, but he asked so persistently that they 

 finally consented. Before they sent him away, however, they took 

 him away and obtained some small coppers for him. After that they 

 got everything ready and set out the following winter. As they pad- 

 dled on they could see the places where he had camped during the 

 hard time he had had after he left his own village. He asked the 

 people to go up with him along the same trail he had taken through 

 the woods. By that route they came to Grass creek (Tcu'kAn-liIn), 

 to the ])lace he had left, but, when they came down, the people of tiuit 

 village were afraid of them. These were the TcukAne'di, Ka/gwAntan, 

 Wuckita'n, Koskle'di, TlA'qldentan, L!ak!nAXA'di, and QlAtlkatVyi. 



By and by one of the TcukAne'di came out right opposite them and 

 said, "What are you coming here for, you land-otter people? We 

 are not the people who have been making medicine for you." When 

 they saw that those people ditl not care to receive them they went 

 back through the woods to the town of the L!u!k!nAXA'di. The 

 L!idv!nAXA'di saw that they had coppers, and took them away. 

 Then the L!ilk!nAXA'di said, "You are going to be our people." 

 Each man took a man out of the canoe and saitl, "You will 

 be my friend." That was the way they used to do. They would 

 take away a person's goods and then give him just what they wanted 

 to. The Athapascans were foolish enough to allow it. Afterward 

 the TcukAne'di felt that they were unlucky in not having taken the 

 visitors in themselves. Therefore, when a person is unlucky nowa- 

 days, they say of him, "He sent the Athapascans away." Because 

 they did this the TcukAne'di are below all other Tlingit families. 

 That was what brought them bad luck, and that is also how the 

 L!uk!nAXA'di became very rich. They got a claim on the place where 

 the copper plates come from. 



Next spring the iJuklnAXA'di went right to the mouth of Copper 

 river. They made a village there at once and called it Kosle'xka. 

 One of the mountains there they called TsAlxa'n and another 

 Masli'ca. All along where they went they gave names. A certain 

 creek was called NA'gAk"-hin, and they came to a lake which they 

 named I^tu'a. Then they went to a river called Alse'x, at the mouth 

 of which they established a town and named itKosIe'x. Afterward 

 they went to the river from which the copper came and called it 

 Iq hi'ni (Copper river). At Kos!e'x they built a house called Ta hit 

 (Sleep house). Then all of them were L!uk!nAxA'di, but some, from 

 the fact that they camped on an island, came to be called Q!At!kaa'yi 



