[103] Told to explain beaver tattooings. [↑]
[104] Ta′ʟ̣at is the word for rainbow trout or charr; ada means “different.” [↑]
A-slender-one-who-was-given-away
[Told by John Sky of Those-born-at-Skedans]
Once there was a chief’s child, they say, a girl, for whom they often hung out hawk down on the end of a pole.[1] Her father loved her. She had two brothers; one was large and the other had just begun growing.
Once people came in front of her father’s town in ten canoes, danced while coming and stopped in front of the town. Then one of her father’s slaves inquired: “What are these come for?” “They are come to get the chief’s child.” And when they said “The woman refuses,” they went away weeping.
The next day others came dancing on ten canoes. Then again they asked: “What are these come for?” “They are come to get the chief’s daughter.” And those, too, they refused, and they went weeping away.