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| 54 | 283 | View more quotes about canka">Canka, as a portion of his loot from the Yellow Knives, had taken five hides of the yellow kailiauk. |
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| 54 | 280 | The best translation is perhaps "Red Tassel," the tassel being understood as that of the maize plant, prized by the red savages. |
| 54 | 281 | The connotation in all these cases, with which the red savage, in the fluency and depth with which he understands his own language, is fully cognizant, and to which he responds, is that of something red which is pleasant to feel, something that is soft and smooth to the touch. |
| 54 | 282 | It was no mistake or coincidence that the red-haired, large-bosomed Natusa had come into the ownership of Mahpiyasapa. |
| 54 | 283 | Canka, as a portion of his loot from the Yellow Knives, had taken five hides of the yellow kailiauk. |
| 54 | 284 | These he had given to Mahpiyasapa, as a gift, in a sense, but also, in a way, as a payment for his earlier acquisition of Winyela, whom Grunt had brought originally into the Barrens as a property for Mahpiyasapa. |
| 54 | 285 | In taking these five hides Mahpiyasapa, in effect, forgave Canka for his exercise of the warrior rights which had brought Winyela's pretty neck into his beaded collar. |
| 54 | 286 | I had then, luckily, among Yellow-Knife slaves, discovered she who was now called Natusa. |