Word: chatonska
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...Minnesota, where the Mississippi spreads itself to be Lake Pepin, a giant rock looms high, the grim reminder of the fate of the Princess Winona. Strangers passing by are inevitable told of the Indian girl and her love for Chatonska, bravest of her uncle's warriors, how with him away at battle she was wedded against her will to the hawk-nosed Matosapa, chief of a neighboring tribe, how, singing, she jumped to her death "and the place ever since has been known as Maiden Rock...
...warriors. Now her uncle wanted her wedded to Matosapa, chief of a friendly tribe, who came to warn him of approaching peril from the Chippewas, and so relentlessly did he insist that she, despairing, sent for her true love to come back from the war. Home came Chatonska galloping over the plains only to be branded as a deserter, exiled. And Winona, beaten and wedded against her will to the hawk-nosed stranger, jumped to her death from a lonely rock...
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