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From “Council Talks”
BOO-SHOO! Boo-shoo! | |
| Me, Ah'-dek-koons, I mak’-um big talk. Ho! | |
| Me, ol’ man; I’m got-um sick in knee | |
| In rainy wedder w’en I’m walk. Ugh! | |
| Me, lak moose w’at’s ol’, | 5 |
| I’m drop-um plenty toot’! | |
| Yet I am big man! Ho! | |
| An’ I am talk big! Ho! | |
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| Hi-yee! Blow lak moose ol’ man! | |
| Ho! | 10 |
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| Hi-yi! Little Caribou him talk | |
| Lak O'-mah-ka-kee dose Bullfrog; | |
| Big mout’, big belly, | |
| No can fight! | 15 |
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| Ugh! Close mout’, young crazy buck! | |
| You stop council-talk, | |
| You go ’way council; | |
| Sit wit’ squaw. | |
| You lak pollywog tad-pole: | 20 |
| No can jump-um over little piece mud; | |
| Can only shake-um tail lak crazy-dam-fool! | |
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| Keetch'-ie O'-gi-ma', big Presh-i-den’, | |
| He got-um plenty t’oughts in head, good t’oughts; | |
| Me, Little Caribou, | 25 |
| I’m got-um plenty t’oughts in head, good t’oughts. | |
| Yet Eenshun Agent Myers all-tam’ saying: | |
| “Ah'-dek-koons he crazy ol’ fool!” | |
| Ugh! He crazy ol’ fool! | |
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| Keetch'-ie O'-gi-ma' long tam’ ago was say in treaty: | 30 |
| “All de Cheebway should be farmer; | |
| All will get from gov’ment fine allotment— | |
| One hondred-sixty acre each.” Ho! | |
| Ho! Eenshun scratch-um treaty! | |
| Stick-um t’umb on treaty! | 35 |
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| W’at’s come treaty? Hah! | |
| Eenshun got-um hondred-sixty acre, | |
| But got-um too much little pieces; | |
| Pieces scattered over lake | |
| Lak leaves she’s blow by wind. | 40 |
| In tamarack swamp by Moose-tail Bay | |
| He got-um forty acre piece. | |
| In muskeg and in rice-field, | |
| On Lake of Cut-foot Sioux, ten mile away, | |
| He got-um forty acre more. | 45 |
| In sand an’ pickerel weed, | |
| On Bowstring Lake, she’s forty mile away, | |
| He got-um forty acre more. | |
| Hondred mile away, on Lac La Croix, | |
| W’ere lumber-man is mak’ big dam | 50 |
| For drive-um log—an’ back-um up water | |
| All over Eenshun allotment land— | |
| He got-um forty acre more, all under lake! | |
| How can be? | |
| Got-um land all over lake! | 55 |
| Got-um land all under lake! | |
| For Eenshun be good farmer | |
| Eenshun should be good for walking under water! | |
| Should be plough hees land wit’ clam-drag! | |
| Should be gadder crops with’ fish-net! | 60 |
| For Eenshun be good farmer | |
| Eenshun should be fish! | |
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| Ugh! | |
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| I have said it! | |
| Ho! | 65 |
| Hi! Plenty-big talk! | |
| Ho! Ho! Ho! | |
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