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Song used by All Families in making Peace

(Ga lâ' s?a'lAña-i).

104.

l dî tâda's Lû q!e'nañ dî u'nsAtsgaiya'ndô.
Raven | me | ate | if | myself | I | would not know.
Ao Lîsînôt dAga'ñ l sû'g.
Now | first time | for myself | I | am singing.

If Raven had eaten me, 1 I would not know myself.
Now for the first time I am singing to myself.


Footnotes

62:1 "Being eaten by Raven" seems to mean being killed in war.


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