muskwat

Updated: June 3, 2025

Somewhere out beyond the Muskwat the feasts go on, and the old men build the great fires, and tell tales, and call the wind out of the north, and make the thunder speak; and the young men ride to the hunt or go out to battle, and build lodges for the daughters of the tribe; and each man has his woman, and each woman has in her breast the honour of the tribe, and the little ones fill the lodge with laughter.

Gilbert Parker - Northern Lights, Complete

Her eyes flashed as she sprang to her feet and walked up and down the room for a moment, then stood still, facing her mother a dark-faced, pock-marked woman, with heavy, somnolent eyes and waited for her to speak. The reply came slowly and sullenly: "I am a Blackfoot woman. I lived on the Muskwat River among the braves for thirty years. I have killed buffalo. I have seen battles.

Gilbert Parker - Northern Lights