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Note 25 — Fights between the Tsimshian and Haida and among the northern Haida

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Some time afterward news came that one of the Sqoā′ładas25 had killed one of the Cod-people26 at Kꜝiū′stᴀ.27 He was a great chief. He had a house hole at Tꜝī′g̣ᴀn.28 His nephews then killed a shaman, Tcꜝā′nūt, belonging to the Sa′gua-lā′nas.29 They shot ten bullets into him. He was town chief. He owned the town of Qᴀñ. After they had shot him and had walked around him for a while one of his bunches of matted hair, which was lying on the ground, rose up and lay over his head. It went on in that way until all came to lie over his head.

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