AUDIO EXCERPT
from the Audiobook
Siksikaitsitapi: Stories of the Blackfoot People

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From the Chapter,
"Omahkitapiksi Okakinikiiwa Teachings from our Elders"

By Iikiinayookaa Marlene Yellow Horn

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Text Excerpt:
Do you know how powerful Siksikaitsitapi people are?
Kitsskinii’pa Do you know
maanstataato’sipi how powerful
Siksikatsitapiwa Blackfoot People

Our Elders knew that World War I ended long before anyone else did.
They could see the soldiers marching home in the clouds.

Omahkitapiksi Elders/old people
iiyaksskinima knew already
otakssikaaa wahkaootsisawa
end of the war,
matoom awahkaootsini World War I.
Ipapainoyiwa like a dream scene
soowaksi soldiers
aahkiaapiwaakayiwa marching home
amotsi soksistsikoistsi in the clouds.