Note 37 — Front matter
Reading edition
A translation of the song for this occasion is as follows:
“Take care of yourself—shoot well, or you lose, You warned me, but, see! I have defeated you! I am one of the Great Spirit’s children! Wa-konda I am! I am Wa-konda!”
See Alice C. Fletcher’s paper, Tribal Structure, as included in The Putnam Anniversary Volume, Cedar Rapids, 1909, for a further exposition of the word Wa-Kon’-da.