COYOTE GRAY FOX S M SNAKE (PDF)

A Bilingual Book

No. 2

Omaha Tribal Historical
Research Project, Inc.
(OTHRP)

Dennis Hastings, PhD
Margery Coffey, PhD

Traditional Umonhon Stories

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Mi’kaçi: Coyote and Ma’zhon: Gray Fox
Mi: Sun and Nion’ba: Moon
Mi’kaçi: Coyote and We’ç’a: Snake
A Bilingual Book
A Traditional Omaha Story
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[Kage’çon: Younger brother],
what has made you [shin:
fat]?

[Zhinthe’ho: Elder brother],
I lie down in the way of
those who haul [wamu’çke
çkithe: cookies], and I pretend to be [t’e: dead].

When they throw me into the [zhonmonthin:
wagon], I lie there kicking the [wamu’çke
çkithe: cookies] out. Then I leap out and start
[ti gthe: home] eating.
It is the [wamu’çke çkithe: cookies] which
have made me [shin: fat].
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Then [Mi’kaçi: Coyote] went to the place and
lay down in the uhe: path.
When the [waxe: white man] came along,
he threw [Mi’kaçi: Coyote]
[paç’inithe: head first] into
the [zhonmonthin: wagon].

[Zhinthe’ho: elder brother], I wish you to do
like-wise. You, [Zhinthe’ho: elder brother],
have large [çi: feet]. I think you will knock
out a great many [wamu’çke çkithe: cookies].
WAMU’ÇKE ÇKITHE
WAMU’ÇKE ÇKITHE
WAMU’ÇKE ÇKITHE
MU’ÇKE ÇKITHE

WAMU’ÇKE ÇKITHE
WAMU’ÇKE ÇKITHE

WAMU’Ç

WAMU’ÇKE ÇK

WAMU’ÇKE ÇKITHE
WAMU’ÇKE ÇKITHE

WA

The [waxe: white man] thought, "It is not the
first time that he has acted like that!" So he
[uthiçki: tied] [Mi’kaçi: Coyote’s] [çi: feet].

Having put [Mi’kaçi: Coyote] in the [zhonmonthin: wagon], the [waxe: white man] went to
2 his [ti gthe: home].

The [waxe: white man] thought that [Mi’kaçi: Coyote]
was [t’e: dead], so he threw [Mi’kaçi: Coyote] out by a
miserable [ti zhinga: outhouse].

The [waxe: white man] took a [monhi’: knife] When [Mi’kaçi: Coyote] got [uthi xthaxtha:
and cut the [ha’zhinga: rope] which bound the loose], he ran [eta thishonagthe: homeward].
[çi: feet] of [Mi’kaçi: Coyote]. Then the [waxe:
white man] left and went into the [ti: house].

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[Mi’kaçi: Coyote] went back to [çaba zhi waxa: attack] [Ma’zhon: Gray Fox].

0, [Kage’çon: Younger brother],
you have made me
[ithi’hide thinge: miserable].

You-yourself, are to
[a’gthai: blame!]
Be [xthia zhi: silent]
and [gi: come] to me!

You brought the trouble
on yourself when you lay
down in the place where
the [waxe: white man]
came with the [wamu’çke
çkithe: cookies].

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0 [Kage’çon: Younger brother],
you tell the [egonxti: truth]. . .

. . . But [Ma’zhon: Gray Fox]
[kinonshe:
tempted]
me.

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Take the circled letters from the above puzzles. The circles in this puzzle are for the vowels.
Symbols and accents go with the letter to the left of them.

Unscramble TAIGHA
for the word for BLAME

Unscramble TIHKEÇ
for the word for SWEET

Unscramble HOnMI’
for the word for KNIFE

Unscramble the circled letters above to find the word for COYOTE.

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Unscramble HASIMOn
for the word for FAR ABOVE

Unscramble AZU’GH
for the word for BODY

Unscramble KADNA’E for the word for HEAT
Unscramble the circled letters above to find the word for GRAY FOX.

2
Unscramble HATOnTIW
for the word for WORK

Unscramble NE’ÇKGOA
for the word for YOUNGER BROTHER

Unscramble ÇA’TIHEPIn for the word for HEAD FIRST
Unscramble the circled letters above to find the word for SNAKE.
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As told by Pá¢in-nanpájĭ

M

i: Sun] and [Nion’ba: Moon]
used to reside on the [ton’de:
earth] prior to their [iye akiki tha:
quarrel].
This is the only [waxinha baxu: record] of that [iye akiki tha: quarrel] that remains.

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