--- title: XXXVIII. a Rip Van Winkle — Wigwam stories told by North American Indians · full text with trees description: XXXVIII. a Rip Van Winkle, «Wigwam stories told by North American Indians» by Mary Catherine Judd: the whole chapter, every sentence with its dependency tree and pragmatics. It begins: (Siwash) --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg73136/63/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [Wigwam stories told by North American…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg73136/) / XXXVIII. a Rip Van Winkle # XXXVIII. a Rip Van Winkle XXXVIII. a Rip Van Winkle of «Wigwam stories told by North American Indians» by Mary Catherine Judd: the whole text, 125 sentences and 1597 words. 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(Siwash)[1](1/ "tree and pragmatics") Many moons before the Siwashes used iron or gold or silver a strange thing happened.[2](2/ "tree and pragmatics") It must be true, for it is told by the old men to the boys to this day.[3](3/ "tree and pragmatics") White people do not always believe it.[4](4/ "tree and pragmatics") There lived a great Siwash hunter in the land in the west near the great river full of salmon, where it comes into the sea.[5](5/ "tree and pragmatics") His arrows gave him much meat; his great canoe and his spear gave him much fish.[6](6/ "tree and pragmatics") He had very many strings of shell money; the Siwash people call it hiaqua.[7](7/ "tree and pragmatics") No one ever loved hiaqua as much as this great hunter loved it.[8](8/ "tree and pragmatics") He had many strings of it around his neck.[9](9/ "tree and pragmatics") He was rich; but when he waited in the trees in the forest for the elk or the deer to come that he might shoot them, he was always counting the shells on these strings.[10](10/ "tree and pragmatics") He would say to himself: “I shall have more hiaqua than the great chief.[11](11/ "tree and pragmatics") I shall have more than two chiefs.”[12](12/ "tree and pragmatics") When the great forest was very still his tamanous would come to him.[13](13/ "tree and pragmatics") It was like an elk, and it would talk with him.[14](14/ "tree and pragmatics") He waited at the foot of the great white snow mountain for the elk to come.[15](15/ "tree and pragmatics") The great mountain is called Mount Tacoma.[16](16/ "tree and pragmatics") This was the home of the Great Tamanous, who puts only good thoughts into the hearts of all people; when the hunter sat long in the tree and looked at the mountain he was ashamed in his heart.[17](17/ "tree and pragmatics") The Great Tamanous, who is the Good Great Spirit, seemed to ask him, “Where did you get it, that last string of hiaqua?”[18](18/ "tree and pragmatics") And he had to say: “I tore some of the shells from the faces of helpless squaws; from their noses and from their lips.[19](19/ "tree and pragmatics") I paid them for the shells with elk meat so dry that they cannot eat it.[20](20/ "tree and pragmatics") I know they are starving, but they could see; they did not have to take the meat.[21](21/ "tree and pragmatics") They could eat leaves and berries.[22](22/ "tree and pragmatics") I know there are no berries, but they could go on the long trail and find some.”[23](23/ "tree and pragmatics") “The squaws and children were very weak with hunger,” said the Great Tamanous to his heart.[24](24/ "tree and pragmatics") The hunter was much ashamed; in the tree by the mountain he would be ashamed, but he never gave back the hiaqua.[25](25/ "tree and pragmatics") It was good and he wanted more.[26](26/ "tree and pragmatics") One day he went up the side of Mount Tacoma.[27](27/ "tree and pragmatics") His own tamanous came to him while he waited; the white elk talked to the hunter’s spirit.[28](28/ "tree and pragmatics") The tamanous said:[29](29/ "tree and pragmatics") “You are not wise.[30](30/ "tree and pragmatics") You are like the mouth of a great fish.[31](31/ "tree and pragmatics") You have great hunger, but it is all for hiaqua.[32](32/ "tree and pragmatics") Your shoulders are covered with heavy strings of hiaqua.[33](33/ "tree and pragmatics") You have taken the shells from the nose and lips of your own squaw.[34](34/ "tree and pragmatics") You sell her elk meat, and she is starving like the other women.[35](35/ "tree and pragmatics") You will not feed her with the elk meat you will get to-day.[36](36/ "tree and pragmatics") I will send her meat.[37](37/ "tree and pragmatics") I am sent by the Great Tamanous.[38](38/ "tree and pragmatics") Listen\![39](39/ "tree and pragmatics") I will give you hiaqua enough to fill your heart.”[40](40/ "tree and pragmatics") Then the tamanous, the spirit of the great elk from which his band was descended, told the hunter a secret.[41](41/ "tree and pragmatics") The tamanous told him of a place on the great white mountain where was much hidden hiaqua.[42](42/ "tree and pragmatics") If the hunter would seek it and obey, he should have enough to satisfy him.[43](43/ "tree and pragmatics") The hunter went back to his village.[44](44/ "tree and pragmatics") He told his squaw he was going on a long hunt.[45](45/ "tree and pragmatics") He took many deerskins from his tent, and when it was very dark he went away.[46](46/ "tree and pragmatics") He made his camp that night at the foot of Mount Tacoma.[47](47/ "tree and pragmatics") He could not sleep; he could not wait; he saw the sun rise from the top of the mountain; he had no fear.[48](48/ "tree and pragmatics") His tamanous had said he would be with him.[49](49/ "tree and pragmatics") The hunter stood on a great rock on the top of the mountain and looked down; at his feet was a wide hole; he could not shoot his arrow across it.[50](50/ "tree and pragmatics") The hole was white with snow, except that in the middle was a wide black lake; across the lake he saw the three great rocks he had been told to find.[51](51/ "tree and pragmatics") The hunter walked on the crackling snow until he reached these three rocks.[52](52/ "tree and pragmatics") He knew them, for they were the ones his tamanous had told him to find.[53](53/ "tree and pragmatics") The first rock was shaped like the head of a salmon; the second was like the good camass root, which all Siwashes eat; the third rock was the same as an elk.[54](54/ "tree and pragmatics") It was his tamanous: it would take care of him; he was safe.[55](55/ "tree and pragmatics") The hunter dropped his pack of deerskin on the ground before the elk.[56](56/ "tree and pragmatics") He opened it and took out a great elk-horn pick, and began to dig in the sand.[57](57/ "tree and pragmatics") He struck one blow in the sand.[58](58/ "tree and pragmatics") Four otters rose out of the black lake and came and sat at the north of him.[59](59/ "tree and pragmatics") He struck the second blow.[60](60/ "tree and pragmatics") Four more otters came and sat at the south of him.[61](61/ "tree and pragmatics") He struck the third blow.[62](62/ "tree and pragmatics") Four more great otters came and sat at the west.[63](63/ "tree and pragmatics") The sun was bright in the east.[64](64/ "tree and pragmatics") It was watching him.[65](65/ "tree and pragmatics") No otters came and sat at the east.[66](66/ "tree and pragmatics") These were all the guards for the place where the Great Tamanous kept his hiaqua.[67](67/ "tree and pragmatics") They did not hurt the hunter, and he did not see them, for he was thinking only of hiaqua.[68](68/ "tree and pragmatics") When the sun was over his head he put down his pick.[69](69/ "tree and pragmatics") He ate a bit of dried elk meat and took his pick again.[70](70/ "tree and pragmatics") He struck a rock; it broke very quickly.[71](71/ "tree and pragmatics") He lifted up a piece of the rock and saw a great cave full of shell money, full of hiaqua.[72](72/ "tree and pragmatics") The hunter put in his hand and played with the shells.[73](73/ "tree and pragmatics") He lifted up strings of it, for it was strung on elk sinews.[74](74/ "tree and pragmatics") He threw the strings around his neck.[75](75/ "tree and pragmatics") He worked fast, for the sun was moving to the west, and he knew he must go.[76](76/ "tree and pragmatics") He was strong, but he had a great load.[77](77/ "tree and pragmatics") The sun was too fast for him.[78](78/ "tree and pragmatics") He stood up and ran, but he did not throw one string over the elk head, nor over the camass root, nor over the rock like a salmon.[79](79/ "tree and pragmatics") He turned his back on the great otters.[80](80/ "tree and pragmatics") He did not offer them one string, not one shell; he forgot his promise to the Great Tamanous.[81](81/ "tree and pragmatics") He did not obey.[82](82/ "tree and pragmatics") He ran on with his great load of hiaqua.[83](83/ "tree and pragmatics") He reached the white snow on the side of the great pit; then all the otters jumped into the black lake and lashed it into white foam with their bodies and tails.[84](84/ "tree and pragmatics") A black mist came over the mountain; the storm winds came.[85](85/ "tree and pragmatics") The Great Tamanous was in the storm.[86](86/ "tree and pragmatics") The winds blew the hunter from one side of the wide hole to the other side.[87](87/ "tree and pragmatics") He had his hands on his money and did not lose one string.[88](88/ "tree and pragmatics") The water helped the winds to throw him back to the great rock on the top of the mountain.[89](89/ "tree and pragmatics") The hunter did not let the otters get one hiaqua.[90](90/ "tree and pragmatics") He heard two voices in the thunder; one was the Great Tamanous.[91](91/ "tree and pragmatics") He heard the tamanous of all the mountain scream to him in the wind; he heard them laugh.[92](92/ "tree and pragmatics") His body was like a leaf, as the winds blew him and tossed him from one rock to another.[93](93/ "tree and pragmatics") They did not break a string; they did not take his hiaqua.[94](94/ "tree and pragmatics") He did not give them one shell.[95](95/ "tree and pragmatics") The night was two days long; he broke one string and threw it away to the winds.[96](96/ "tree and pragmatics") They laughed.[97](97/ "tree and pragmatics") He threw another string to the thunder voices.[98](98/ "tree and pragmatics") The thunder was heavier than before.[99](99/ "tree and pragmatics") He threw away every string of hiaqua; then his body dropped on the ground on the side of the mountain, and he went to sleep.[100](100/ "tree and pragmatics") When his eyes came open he was hungry; he dug some camass root, and made a pipe and smoked.[101](101/ "tree and pragmatics") His bones were not broken, but his joints made a noise like a paddle on the edge of a canoe.[102](102/ "tree and pragmatics") His hair was like a blanket on his back; it lay on the ground while he was smoking.[103](103/ "tree and pragmatics") “The Great Tamanous has done this,” said the hunter.[104](104/ "tree and pragmatics") He looked at the white mountain, and his heart was full of peace.[105](105/ "tree and pragmatics") “I have no hiaqua.[106](106/ "tree and pragmatics") It is all given back to the Great Tamanous.[107](107/ "tree and pragmatics") I am well.[108](108/ "tree and pragmatics") I have no hunger for it.[109](109/ "tree and pragmatics") I will go home.”[110](110/ "tree and pragmatics") He found the trail overgrown with tall trees.[111](111/ "tree and pragmatics") “Tamanous has done it,” he said.[112](112/ "tree and pragmatics") The people in his village did not know him.[113](113/ "tree and pragmatics") He asked for his wife, and they pointed to an old squaw, wrinkled and with her face bent to her knees.[114](114/ "tree and pragmatics") She knew him and pointed to his hair.[115](115/ "tree and pragmatics") “Tamanous,” he said.[116](116/ "tree and pragmatics") “There is the little papoose,” she said.[117](117/ "tree and pragmatics") The papoose was a man with white hair.[118](118/ "tree and pragmatics") “He is your son and my son,” said the old squaw.[119](119/ "tree and pragmatics") The hunter looked in the water.[120](120/ "tree and pragmatics") “I have slept for many moons,” he said.[121](121/ "tree and pragmatics") He became a great medicine man, for he was wise.[122](122/ "tree and pragmatics") He taught the Siwash nation many things.[123](123/ "tree and pragmatics") He taught them to keep their promises.[124](124/ "tree and pragmatics") He told them not to forget the Great Tamanous whose home is on the white mountain.[125](125/ "tree and pragmatics") - ← previous: [XXXVII. the North Wind’s Defeat](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg73136/62/) - next →: [XXXIX. Legend of the Wampum-bird and the Boy](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg73136/64/) - ↑ back to [Wigwam stories told by North American Indians](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg73136/)