ODOWAN SIGSIGE.! 
SONGS BAD. 

WRITTEN IN Dakota BY Davip GREY CLOUD. 
Hituykaykanpi wal) heéen oyakapi. Unktomi wan kaken ya wanka;° 
Myths thus is-told. Unktomi one so going was; 
mde way kahda ya ne ujkay mde kiy Gaynan magaksiéa, ka maga, 
lake one by-the- going was, and lake the out-in ducks, and geese, 
side-of 
ka magatayka koya ota hiyeya. Unktomi wanwiéayaka ¢a_ idiéawin 
and swans also many were, Unktomi them-saw and backward 
pustagstag isipyan kihde; Ga pezi yusda, ka owasin yuskiskite éa kin, ka 
crawling out-of sight went-home; and grass “plucked, and all “ bound-up and carried ard 
on his back 
eke mde kin kahda ya. 
regain lake the by-the- went. 
side-of 
Uykay magaksiéa ka maga ka magatayka kin hena heyapi: Unktomi, 
And ‘ducks and gee. am and swans the they this said: Unktomi, 
hena taku e yakiy hwo, eyapi. Uykay Unktomi heya: Hena is odowan 
these what that boys arry ? they said. And Unktomi Aeon These they Songs 
sigsiéedanka e he wakin do, eya. Unkay magaksi¢a heyapi: Kéa Uyktomi, 
‘Dad little ones that I-carry on, said. And ducks this said: Now Unktomi, 
my back 
wykidoway | miye, eyapi. Tka Unktomi heya: Hoho! tka eéa odoway kin 
us-for-sing the y said. But Unktomi this:said: Indeed! but now songs the 
SiesiGe se eya: Tuka magaksiva kin nina kitanpi hinéa. Unkan, Iho po, 
bad-ones like, he said. But ducks the much insisted-on very. And, Come-on (ye) 
eéa pedi wokeya wanzi kaga po, eya. Unkay wanzi tayka kagapi ka 
now grass booth one make ye, said. And one large they-made and 
V ustaypi. 
the y finished. 
Unkay Uyktomi heya: Wanna, magaksiéa, ka maga, ka magatanka 
And Unktomi this‘said: Now, ducks, and geese, and swans 
owasil) pe zi wokeya kin timahen iy yaya po, Gididowaypi kta Ge, eya. 
all grass lodg e the within £0 ye I-for-you (pl.) sing will ‘ said. 
Uykay magaksiéa ka maga, ka magatanka owasiy timahen iyayapi, ka 
And due ks, and geese and swans all within the y went, and 
' Por the corresponding Omaha and Ponka myth, see Contr. N. A. Eth., vi, pt. 2, pp. 66-69.—J. 0. D. 
-Ya wanka, he was going; literally, going he-reclined. Waka, originally a classifier of attitude 
(the reclining object), is used here as hanka (hanka) is in Winnebago.—4J, 0. D. 
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