Chahkabesh is swallowed by the giant fish

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Title:
cahkâpêsh kâ-kohcipalihikot mistamêsa - Chahkabesh is swallowed by the giant fish




Speaker:
Isaiah Sutherland



Dialect:
Kashechewan Cree



Age Level: 6

Description

Chahkabesh asks his big sister about the fins he saw breaking out of the water of the lake and she warns him never to go into that water because there are giant fish who can swallow him. Chahkabesh doesn't believe his sister and when his arrow falls into the water, he goes in after it and is swallowed whole by a giant fish. For three nights, Chahkabesh is trapped until his sister throws her moccasin into the water for the fish to swallow and drags it to shore and cuts it open to free her brother. Then, Chahkabesh tells his sister that he saw tracks but she tells him not to bother with them because it is the sun causing those tracks. Chahkabesh doesn't believe her and lays his snares and, as his big sister said, it didn't dawn the next day. He asked all the animals to free the sun but only the sharply pointed mouse could gnaw through the snare and release it. NOTE: the sound file is damaged at the end.

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Boy Animals Woman Supernatural Chahkabesh

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