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Updated: May 7, 2025
"See the lifting of the paddles!" exclaims Winona. "Like the leaping of a trout upon the water!" suggests Miniyata. "I hope they will not discover us, yet I would like to know who they are," remarks the other, innocently. The birch canoe approaches swiftly, with two young men plying the light cedar paddles.
Now upon the lake that stretches blue to the eastward there appears a distant canoe, a mere speck, no bigger than a bird far off against the shining sky. "See the lifting of the paddles!" exclaims Winona. "Like the leaping of a trout upon the water!" suggests Miniyata. "I hope they will not discover us, yet I would like to know who they are," remarks the other, innocently.
It is Winona and her friend Miniyata. They have arrived at the period during which the young girl is carefully secluded from her brothers and cousins and future lovers, and retires, as it were, into the nunnery of the woods, behind a veil of thick foliage. Thus she is expected to develop her womanly qualities.
Right between a great pine and a birch tree their soft doeskin shawls are spread, and there sit two Sioux maidens amid their fineries variously colored porcupine quills for embroidery laid upon sheets of thin birch-bark, and moccasin tops worked in colors like autumn leaves. It is Winona and her friend Miniyata.
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