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Haida texts and myths

Note 2 — Wars between the Stikine and Sitka Tlingit

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When he put on his cartridge box some one shouted: “Ixiâ′⁺ī,2 One-who-is-always-mentioned has his weapons in his hands.” Then, forgetting himself, he shot. Straightway they all shot. And he also said that he pulled out his knife and kept striking them as he moved forward. They then destroyed the Sitka people. They stabbed those who there escaped to the woods. They said that two young fellows then came from watching for their enemies. They took them into Cēks’s canoe.

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