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beat us and trouble us and probably kill us. But we should not listen 

 to them, we should continue to live like the Hopi. We should con- 

 tinue to use the food of the Hopi and wear the clothes of the Hopi. 

 But those Popwaktu of the Hopi would help the White Men, and they 

 would speak for the White Men, because they would also want to do 

 just the same as those White Men would ask them to do. And now it 

 has come to that, our forefathers have been prophesying that. We 

 are now in trouble. Our children are taken away from us, and we 

 are being harassed and worried. 



.S. THE ORIGIN OF SOME ORAI'bI CLANS.' 



Away down the sipapu in the under-world the people lived in the 

 same manner as they do here. The wife of the chief of the Bear clan 

 often danced in the Butterfly dance (Polihtikivee), at which the chief 

 got angry. The Spider clan had also a chief. The Bear chief sent 

 the P6okong to hunt for them another life (katci) or world and see 

 whether they could not get out. He was so angry at his wife's 

 participating in the dance, fearing that she would be led astray, that 

 he wanted to go away and leave her. 



P6okong and his younger brother BaWongahoya went in search 

 of another world, and when they returned, reported that there was 

 an opening right above them. P6okong had reached it by means of 

 a reed on which he had spit and thus made it strong. The chief said, 

 as they were still dancing (the Butterfly dance) they would move in 

 four days. After four days they were still dancing, and the chief 

 said to some one that he would not tell his wife anything, but try to 

 find another wife. So he left, being accompanied by P6okong and 

 Bal6ongahoya, the Polls still dancing wildly. They started and went 

 out, P6okong first, then Bal6ongahoya, then the Bear clan chief, who 

 was followed by the Spider clan chief. Then the Bear clan people, 

 the Spider clan people, and after them many other people came out. 

 When many were out the Bear chief closed the opening. When they 

 were out the chief said. "Well, what now?" They were in the dark 

 yet, the entrance, however, being closed. The chief sent the Eagle 

 who flew around hunting an opening or light. He returned, and the 

 chief asked: "Taa um hin naw6ti?" "Well, I found an opening and 

 made it more light, but it is very hot high up yet. Send another 

 one." So the chief sent the Buzzard (Wicoko). The latter ascended 

 higher but got burned (hence he has no feathers on his head and wings), 

 but he made it lighter. When he returned the chief said: "Thank 



' Told by Wikvaya (Oraibi). 



