ᎡᏘᏴ, ᏍᎩᏄᏍᏛ ᏓᏃᏒᏍᎨ ᎦᏓ ᎦᏓᏍᎬᎢ ᏃᎴ ᏚᏂᏚᎲ, ᎾᏍᎩ ᎢᏳᏍᏗ ᎤᎾᎵᏍᏕᎸᏙᏗ ᏱᎨᏥᎦᏘᎴᏅ ᏃᎴ ᎤᏂᏫᏒᏗ, ᎤᎾᎵᏍᎩᏍᏗ ᏃᎴ ᎤᎾᏁᏦᏗ ᏃᎴ ᎠᎹ ᏕᎨᏴ ᎤᎵᏍᎨᏗ ᎨᏒ.
In the old days, they had usually built their mounds and villages in such places, both for practical reasons of defense and agriculture and flat ground for dances and ball games, and also because watercourses held spiritual import for them.