ZIEK (Strong
Warrior) in our language,
The Moiigans
(Maïngan – Yáw – Wolf-People).
For your information
it sounds like
(Z E E K in
English).
Back a few years ago
At about the age of
11 or 12 I (Walkingfox), was 11 or 12,
I was passing by a
restaurant (the Birds Eye); with my father while on the way to the Grocery
store up the street.
Just before passing
the restaurant, we noticed two skunks walk around the side of the building and
into the opened front door of the bar/restaurant.
My father told me to
stand by the window (front window), and he would be right back.
While looking in the
window, I could see him walk up and speak to, what turned out to be the
Bartender, the Owner, and everyone else; by this time were a group of
'Wallflowers'
Then he, my father,
walked over to the two skunks that were in the doorway to the restaurant in the
back, pick them both up by their tails, walk out the front door and around to
the back of the building.
As I followed him, I
could hear him talking to both skunks in, 'what to me sounded like broken
English/Mohiigan'.
He gently placed the
skunks at the top of the hill and walked back into the Birdseye Restaurant.
As we continued our
walk to the store, father told me that he bet them that he could remove, still
alive and with no smell, both skunks within 5 minutes and so he did.
He collected his bet
and
I no longer wonder
why
my grandfather named him,
Ziek (Strong
Warrior).
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