{"collection":"Native American","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/nam/nw/kt/kt16.htm","path":"nam/nw/kt/kt16.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/nam/nw/kt/kt16.htm","text":"(Dictated by Y\u00e2'g\u00f4Las, a ?nE'mg\u00eas, 1900.)\n\"Mother, I want to marry.\"--\"Who is it?\"--\"Oh, Diorite-Woman.\"--\"Well, then, try again. Will you not be tired if she does not talk?\"--\"That is what I like.\" Then he went to his future wife. Night came, and they lay down. He tried to speak to his wife. \"Speak!\" said Born-to-be-the-Sun to his wife. \"You're a funny fellow,\" she said. \"Speak, else I will hit your face.\" Then he struck his wife's face. \"Serves you right. Now your face is all bloody.\" But it was blood of the hand of Born-to-be-the-Sun. It could not be blood on the face of Diorite-Woman, because she was a stone. And he left. \"Mother, I left my wife. I did something to her because she didn't speak.\"--\"Did I not tell you?\" said Mother.","title":"Kwakiutl Tales: Mink marries Diorite-Woman","type":"page"}