Kaúxuma Núpika

**Kaúxuma Núpika** ("Tafi ga Aljanu"),  wanda aka fi sani da **Qánqon Kámek Klaúla** ("Zama a cikin Ruwa Grizzly") ko **Mace Mai Kama da Maza**, mutum ne na Kutenai  wanda ya rayu a farkon karni na 19.  

## Aure na farko da canjin jinsi
An ambaci Kaúxuma a cikin mujallun David Thompson na Columbia River, a kusan 1811, a matsayin annabi wanda ya canza jinsi kuma a lokacin ya kasance "mace mai kama da namiji" tare da matarsa.  Da farko Kaúxuma ta auri wani mutum ɗan ƙasar Kanada, wanda Ria Brodell ta ce "ita mace ce mai baiwa".  Thompson ya bayyana Kaúxuma a matsayin matar aure ta biyu ga ɗaya daga cikin mazajensa mai suna Boisverd a 1803, kuma ya ba da rahoton cewa Kaúxuma "ta zama ruwan dare gama gari har na tura ta wurin danginta; yayin da dukkan mazan Indiya ke aure, maza suna yin watsi da mai ladabi kuma mata suna ƙinta."  Bayan ya bar wannan mijin ya koma Kutenai, Kaúxuma ta ce mutumin ya canza jinsi ko jinsi na Kaúxuma, daga baya ya ɗauki tufafin maza da makamai ya kuma auri mata. 

## Tafiya a matsayin annabi
Kaúxuma ta yi tafiya a duk faɗin Arewa maso Yammacin Pacific, tana aiki a matsayin mai aika saƙo da jagora ga masu kama da gashin fata da 'yan kasuwa,  kuma a matsayin annabi, tana annabta isowar cututtuka masu kisa a tsakanin mutanen yankin.   Thompson ya haɗu da Kaúxuma a gaba a Rainy Lake, kusa da Kogin Upper Columbia, a watan Yulin 1809, inda ya ce "ta kafa kanta a matsayin annabiya kuma a hankali ta sami wasu tasiri a tsakanin 'yan asalin ƙasar a matsayin mai mafarki, da kuma mai bayyana mafarkai. Ta tuna da ni kafin in yi mata, kuma ta yi kama da nuna girman kai, kamar yadda za a ce, yanzu na fita daga ikonki."  A shekara ta 1811 ne kafin Thompson ya sake shiga Kaúxuma, lokacin da Kaúxuma ya shiga sansaninsa yana neman mafaka; Thompson ya bayyana Kaúxuma a matsayin "wani saurayi, sanye da fata mai kyau, yana ɗauke da Kibiya da Kibiya, tare da matarsa, wata matashiya sanye da kyawawan tufafi".  Thompson ya ce Mace Mai Kama da Mutum tana cikin matsala da ƙabilar da ya karɓe ta, Chinooks, saboda hasashen cututtuka. &#x5B; **' &#x5D;</sup> Thompson bai faɗi komai game da martanin da ya bayar ga buƙatar mafaka ba, amma ya lura cewa mutanensa sun ga labarin ya cancanci a maimaita shi. <sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">&#x5B; **' &#x5D; A ranar 2 ga Agusta, mujallarsa ta bayyana cewa "labarin Matar da ke ɗauke da Kibiya da Kibiya kuma tana da Mata, soyayya ce a gare su wadda suka mai da hankali sosai a kanta".  John Robert Colombo, marubucin *Mysterious Canada: Strange Sights, Extraordinary Events, and Peculiar Places*, ya ɗauko ambato game da Manlike Woman daga *littafin David Thompson mai suna Narrative of His Explorations in Western America: 1784-1812* (1916), wanda JB Tyrrell ya shirya.

A shekara ta 1823, John Franklin (na Franklin Expedition don neman Northwest Passage ) ya rubuta cewa shekaru takwas da suka gabata (a shekara ta 1815) wata "mace mai kama da namiji" ta kasance a Fort Chipewyan, kusa da Tafkin Athabasca, wacce mabiyanta suka yi imanin cewa tana da "ikon da ya wuce misali," kuma wacce ta annabta babban sauyi zai zo wa 'yan asalin yankin. [1] An kuma rubuta "Wata mace Kutenai sanye da kayan maza" (kuma ta iya Faransanci sosai) a shekara ta 1825 a wurin ciniki na Flathead, tana aiki a matsayin mai fassara ga abin da ya faru a sansanin, [1] wanda shine tushen Franklin, Mr. Stewart na Kamfanin Hudson's Bay . [ ana buƙatar ambato ]

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