{"collection":"Native American","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/nam/nw/hs/hs003.htm","path":"nam/nw/hs/hs003.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/nam/nw/hs/hs003.htm","text":"(Skidegate Dialect.)\nL'dj\u00e2'ada k\u00fbdju's L\u00fb Q!\u00f4'na l'nag\u00e2'-i ya'kAls\u00ee'ga L gaya'oga\n A woman | it was | when | Skedans | the town of | middle in | its | smoke\n sgaq\u00f4'nga-l\u00ee\u00f1a's L\u00fb'hao L dj\u00e2'adaga-i!\n large | may be | when | what (kind of a) woman (are you)!\nL'dj\u00e2'ada k\u00fbdj\u00fb'sgu Lga-i gA'nLa-i ge'istA L! s\u00ee'q\u00eegA\u00f1[ga]\n A woman | was there | Skedans | Creek | out of | they | make the noise\n qa-ixuna'\u00f1-l\u00ee\u00f1a's L\u00fb'hao L dj\u00e2ad\u00e2'ga!\n of singing continually | may (not) be | when | what | (kind of a) woman are (you)!\nYou need not think that the smoke of your house in the middle of Skedans will be as great as when you were a woman (in your previous life upon earth 1).\nYou need not think that they will make such a continual noise of singing in Skedans Creek as they used to when you were a woman (in your previous existence).\n5:1 The child is considered a re-incarnation of some dead relative.","title":"Haida Songs: I.--Cradle-Songs: 1.","type":"page"}