Hi il iNEY] 



nakai'-dokli'm's prophecy 705 



ing in the center, sprinkled them with the sacred hoddentiri 1 as they 

 circled around him. 



In June of issi he announced to his people, the White Mountain 

 band of Apache (iii San Carlos reservation, that on condition of receiv- 

 ing a sufficient number of horses and blankets for his trouble, he would 

 bring back from the dead two chiefs who had been killed a few months 

 before. The proposition naturally aroused great excitement among the 

 Indians. Eager to have once more with them their beloved chiefs, they 

 willingly produced the required ponies, and when remonstrated with by 

 the agent, replied that they would wait until the specified time for the 

 fulfillment of the prediction, when, if the dead chiefs failed to materi- 

 alize, they would demand the restoration of the property. {Comr., .;.) 



Accordingly Nakai' dokli'ni began his prayers and ceremonies, and 

 the dance was kept up regularly at his camp on Cibicu creek until 

 August, when it was reported to Colonel E. A. Carr, commanding at 

 Fort Apache, that the medicine-man had announced thai the dead 

 chiefs refused to return because of the presence of the whites, hut that 

 when the whites left, the dead would return, and that the. whites would 

 be out of the country when the com was ripe. 



As matters seemed to be getting serious, the agent now called on the 

 commanding officer to "arrest or kill him. or both." The officer pre- 

 pared to make the arrest when Nakai'-dokli ui should come down to the 

 post to lead the dance which had been arranged to take, place in a 

 few days. The prophet failed to put in an appearance, however, and 

 messengers were sent to his camp to ask him to come to the fort the 

 next Sunday. To this message he returned an evasive reply, whereon 

 Colonel Carr, with 85 white troops and 23 Apache scouts, started for 

 his cam]) in Cibicu canyon to put him under arrest. They arrived at the 

 village on August .'!(». Xakai'-dokli'ni submitted quietly to arrest, but 

 as the troops were making camp for the night, their own scouts, joined 

 by others of the Indians, opened tire on them. A sharp skirmish 

 ensued, in which several soldiers were killed or wounded, but the In- 

 dians were repulsed with considerable loss, including the prophet him- 

 self, who was killed at the first fire. The result was another in the long 

 series of Apache outbreaks. (Comr., i: Sec. War, 1; A. Q. <>.. :'.) 



THE POTAWATOMI PROPHET 



In 1SS3 a new religion was introduced among the I'o tawat oini and 

 Kickapoo, of the Pottawotomie and Great Nemaha agency in north- 



1 Hadn-tin or hoddentin, inJJavaho tadatin, is a Bai red yellow powder from tbe pollen of the Tule 

 rush, nr. among the Navaho, of corn. It enters into every important ceremonial performance of tin- 

 Apache and Navaho. The latter always sprinkle some upon the surface of tbe water before crossing ;i 

 stream. Tbe name of tin- medicine-mau is w ritten also Nakay-doklunni it Nockay Delklinne, and he 

 was commonly called Bobbydoklinny by the whites. Dr Washington Matthews, the best authority 

 on the*closely related dialect of tin- Navaho, thinks the name might mean 'spotted or freckled Mexi- 

 can,' 1 Xakal, literally ' l white alien, " being tbe Dame tor Mexican in both dialects. The name won hi 



not necessarily indicate thai 1 1 ledicine-man was of Mexican origin, but might have been given, in 



aeeonlanri with the custom of some tribes, to commemorate tbe fact that he had killed a freckled 

 Mexican. 



