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Then they hunted every day and brought home the meat. Very 
industrious were those women. They worked hard and soon had made 
their tipis; so then they lived each in a separate tent. For there were ten 
women; they made ten tipis. And so they lived there from that time on. 
This is where the sacred story ends. 
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Louis Moosomin 
ndh-namiskwdkdpaw. 
kitahtawd ydhkih mdh-mdstsihtdsow udhiikdw. tapa^wak dsah mitdtahi 
uskimkiwak. dyltaw d-uhkwdkanit awa mhtikow, mihtsdt dtah mlkiwdhpah 
dh-ihtakuhkih, dsa mdna dh-mdh-mdstsihtdt. 
mitdtaht dsa dy-ihtasitsik oki uskimkiwak, “ tapaMdn I ” itwdwak dsa ; 
“ kiydnaw pikuh kik-dskwahikunaw, ” itwdwak dsah. 
tdpwd wawdyiwak ; mlkiwdhp wdhyaw waMhk ntawih-u^hidwak, 
dkwah kitahtawd kiwdwak ; ndtdwak u^misiwdwa. dkuid nikwatis uwiki- 
wok. dkutd kitahtawd dh-wa-wikitsik, kitahtawd ndpdsis mdna dh-kana- 
wdpukdt, kitahtawd dsah dh-ponahk, kd-kisisihk. mistsikus mhkwatsipitam. 
omah mistsikus usitihk kd-kisisihk iskwdhtdrnihk dh-wdpinahk, kd-pdh- 
pnhtukdtdtsimuyit iskwdsisah. 
utindw dsah, “ misawdts naniuya nika-kih-uhpikihdw, ’’ dh-itdyihtahk 
CtSCL* 
dkwah kd-pd-pnhiukdyit, dsay mina d-Mh-wayavnwdpindt, dsay mina 
kihtwdm wayavnwdpindw. 
dkwah kihtwdm dh-pd-plhtukdyit, “ nistdsd I ” k-dtikut dsah. 
“ ah, mahti minah ! ahpoh dtukd kit-oskinikiskwdww, kihtwdm way- 
aunwdpinakih ! ” itdyihiam dsah. dkwah omisih itwdw : “ kita-mh- 
uskinikiskwdwiw, ahpoh dtukd dh-wltsihikuwisiydn ! ” itwdw dsah. 
dkwah kd-pd-plhtukdyit uskinlkiskwdwa, “ ay-apih, niniisd ! ” itwdw 
dsa awa ndpdsis. 
pihkahtdwdhtik isiylhkdtdw dsah ohi uskinikiskwdwah. dkusi dkwah 
miywdyihtam dh-umisit ; minah dh-mihtsdtiyit ustdsah, miywdyihtam kita- 
pamihikutsik ohi uskinikiskwdwah. 
dkutah dsah mdka mina unkihkdmow wi^sahkdtsdhk dhih uskinikiwah ; 
dwaku uhtsi, k-dh-kiskdyihtamiyit kit-dsih-tapasiyit dhih wihtikdwa. ayisk 
kih-mahpindw wlsahkdtsdhk ; dwak dhtsi kd-udsdmdt ohi uskinikiwah. 
“ mdtsikah, nisimis ! ” itwdw dsah, 
nikdn dsah mdna pihtukdw awa ulsahkdtsdhk. 
“ tdnisi kah-itdyihtdn, ” itwdw awa ndpdsis, “ uskinikiskwdw kit- 
dydwdyahk f ” itwdw dsah. 
dkwah wiya unsahkdtsdhk, “ kik-dsimindnaw ! ” itwdw ; kahkiyaw 
kdkway kih-uMmiw ayisk dsah msahkdtsdhk. 
kitahtawd dkwah mistahi kd-kdyawisiyiwa dhi usimiwdwa, dh-kaskik- 
wdtikutsik, minah dh-paminawasuyit. mituni dsah kivayask pamihikwak, 
dkwah mistahi wistawdw dsah dh-kitimdkdyimdtsik. dkwah dh-mdh-mdMt- 
sik, tsdmdk udpats dsah mdna dh-atih-klsihtdyit pahkdkinwah, dkwah mdna 
utaydwinisiwdwa dw-u^htdyit, mituni kwayask dsah dh-pamihikutsik. 
latahtawdh dmisih itwdw dsah unsahkdtsdhk : “ dh, dsay kiskdyihtam 
dtah dh-aydyahk dyltaw k-dhkwdhanit vnhtikdw, ” itwdw dsah ; “ pikuh 
