meyookesik

Updated: May 21, 2025

With equal affection Memotas treated Meyookesik and Sagastao, and great indeed was his kindness and attention to his wife. At first Oowikapun's old prejudices and defective education as regards women almost made him believe that Memotas was lacking in brave, manly qualities to allow his wife and daughter to be on such loving terms of equality with himself and his son.

Egerton Ryerson Young - Oowikapun: How the Gospel Reached the Nelson River Indians

Then, as regards the children, a boy and girl, whom they called Meyookesik and Sagastao, he noticed that the girl was just as much loved and petted as the boy, and even as kindly treated. This was a state of affairs entirely unknown in the wigwams of the pagan Indians.

Egerton Ryerson Young - Oowikapun: How the Gospel Reached the Nelson River Indians