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  • Nor did I say that there was more warmth in the lodge of my father, or that there was more grub on the Chilcat.

    GRIT OF WOMEN 2010

  • And she said: 'When first you came to the Chilcat, nor looked upon me, but bought me as a man buys a dog, and took me away, my heart was hard against you and filled with bitterness and fear.

    GRIT OF WOMEN 2010

  • In the long ago, when I was a girl on the Chilcat, I played alone among the skin bales of my father's lodge; for the men were away on the hunt, and the women and boys were dragging in the meat.

    GRIT OF WOMEN 2010

  • And then she died, in the heart of the winter, died in childbirth, up there on the Chilcat Station.

    SIWASH 2010

  • I got her in fair trade from her people, who were of the Coast and whose Chilcat totem stood at the head of a salt arm of the sea.

    GRIT OF WOMEN 2010

  • It is very far from the Chilcat to the Skoot, and we were many days in the canoes.

    THE DEATH OF LIGOUN 2010

  • He could outpack a Chilcat Indian, he could outpaddle a Stick, and he could travel all day with wet feet when the thermometer registered fifty below zero, and that's going some, I tell you, for vitality.

    Flush of Gold 2010

  • Geographical Society, stated on hearsay that the Chilcat Indians were believed occasionally to make a short portage across the Coast Range from salt water to the head-reaches of the Yukon.

    The Gold Hunters of the North 2010

  • Then she died, in childbirth, up there on the Chilcat Station.

    SIWASH 2010

  • There were we of the Chilcat, and the Sitkas, and the Stickeens who are neighbors to the

    THE DEATH OF LIGOUN 2010

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