Three times have the gifts for the bride[55]
to the lodge of Ta-te-psin been carried,
But the voice of Winona replied
that she liked not the haughty Tamdoka.
And thrice were the gifts sent away,
but the tongue of the mother protested,
And the were-wolf[52] still follows his prey,
and abides but the death of my father."
[AI] The Dakotas say the humming-bird comes from the "Land of the
rain-bow."
[AJ] See Legend of the Falls, or Note 28--Appendix.
[AK] My Sister.
"I pity Winona," he said,
"but my path is a pathway of danger,
And long is the trail for the maid
to the far-away land of the sunrise;
And few are the braves of my band,
and the braves of Tamdoka are many;
But soon I return to the land,
and a cloud of my hunters will follow.
When the cold winds of winter return
and toss the white robes of the prairies,
The fire of the White Chief will burn
in his lodge at the Meeting-of-Waters;[AL]
And when from the Sunrise again
comes the chief of the sons of the Morning,
Many moons will his hunters remain
in the land of the friendly Dakotas.
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