Hočąk Text — Bear Offers Himself as Food, Version 2
Transliterated and Translated by Richard L. Dieterle
The syllabic text, which has neither transliteration nor translation, is written with a dark, thick pencil, with good clarity.
English Translation
p. 139 —
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di Ke.
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e Ki.
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Aotto tte K.
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Ai Ki w xi se de.
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Žigé
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égi
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hųjega
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higiwąxireže,
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Again
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then
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the bears
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they asked him,
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Ai so tti se Ktt n Ae n.
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e de.
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Ai d.
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A t Ki ntt ttiKi di.
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"Hirujirekjanaheną?"
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Éže,
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"Hižą
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hataginąjgiži
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"Will we be eaten?"
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He said,
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"One
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if he fasts
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dA n
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Ai e Ktt n Ae n.
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e de.
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de d
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A Ke
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šaną
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hiékjanaheną,"
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éže.
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Žežą,
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"Hąké
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only
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will he find,"
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he said.
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[That one],
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"Not
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A t Ki ntt
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miy n K
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Ao ni Ki di.
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wo xeAe s.
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hataginąč.
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Mįyanąk.
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Honįgiži,
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woxera
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to fast.
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He sits.
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If he looking for him,
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from a storage pit
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p. 140 —
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ttAi so le tt.
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n ls
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A Ki tt
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A K ni Ktt n Ae n.
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čiróbeja
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nąpra
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hagiją
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haganikjanaheną.
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by the door
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the hand
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partition
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he will be brought to him.
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de Ko Ki di.
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A Ke
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Ai tt ni Ktt n Ae n.
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e de.
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Žegųgiži,
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hąké
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hijanikjanaheną,"
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éže.
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For that reason,
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not
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I will not come (or change),"
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he said.
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Ao tte.
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A Ke
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de rKe
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a ni ne.
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"Hųje
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hąké
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žesge
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anine,"
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"Bears
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not
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of that nature
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it is not said,"
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w dtti Ke Ke
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e de.
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de rKe s Ki di.
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m K A ni se s.
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Wašjįgege
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éže.
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"Žesgeragiži
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mąkąhanįrera
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Hare
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said.
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"If he was of that nature
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of the medicine
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A Ke
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w d
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Ai so d a Ki s ni n.
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hąké
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wažą
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hirut'agiraniną.
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not
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thing
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by means of the hand he would not fall dead.
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di Ke
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doAoKo
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ni Ai se s.
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A Ke
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w d s
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Žigé |
škuni
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hirerá
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hąké
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wažąra
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Again
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perhaps
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when they got him
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not
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the thing
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Ai d
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no ni
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Ai s ni n.
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hižą
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nuní
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hiraniną."
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one
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to know nothing
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they are not doing it."
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English Translation
Source:
The Hare Cycle, in Paul Radin, Winnebago Notebooks, Freeman #3897 (Philadelphia: American Philosophical Society, n.d.) Winnebago V, #23: 139-140.