380 BUREAU OF AMERICAN ETHNOLOGY [bull. 2y 



Fights between the Town-of-TcIa'af^-giti'ns and the Mid jle- 



giti'ns 



[Told by Richard of the Middle-giti'ns] 



When I was still young 1 knew how to handle a gun. They went 

 then to Dadag'.e'ni/ The Town-of-TcIfi'al people' fought together 

 there. They fought while they were drinking whisky.^ At that 

 time G.Ala'-i's nose was bitten oflf. Then they began to light. They 

 shot at each other all night, and they killed a great many there. 



Some time after that another fight broke out. The grandfather 

 of NAn-gut-tci'ng.a* then owned two slaves. He went thither with 

 them and a gun. Although we tried to stop them, they then went 

 thither. They then fought there with them. The}^ took the ramrod 

 from one of the slaves who then held NAn-gut-tci'ng.a's gun. They 

 went then to ask for it. He held it for payment he said. At that 

 time the}" did not make a disturbance about it. 



Some time afterward a vessel of the Iron people'' came there. 

 NAfi-gut-tci'ng.a then went out to it. While he was away Sitting- 

 chieftainess went to Brave-in-his-belly " to get the ramrod. And they 

 who were there pushed her down. Then NAn-gut-tci'ng.a came ashore. 

 The Iron people had given him all kinds of food. He brought a lot 

 away. There was a great quantity of all sorts of things. 



They did not say a word to NAn-gut-tci'ng.a. After they got through 

 eating I told him. But he laughed. He called Gax.i'idia-i (one of his 

 slaves) and told him to go out and make an announcement. Then 

 Brave-in his-belly also sent out to make an announcement. And after 

 that they killed four slaves belonging to him.' And Brave-in-his-belly 

 owned one slave. He killed him. 



On the following day they gave him (NAn-gut-tci'ng.a) a great 

 amount of property — ten slaves, three hundred blankets, five big 

 canoes, a great quantity of propert3\ At that time he summoned the 

 people. Slaves and property were given to the Middle-town people,* 

 Earth-eaters,^ Dogfish-house people,^" People -of -the- house -where- 

 they-alwaj's-have-plenty-to-eat, ^" Raven-house people, '" People-of- 

 the-house-that-went-awa}^ -discouraged.'" They gave one [slave] to 

 Unable-to-do- anything. '^ They gave one to Qolgi't.^' They gave 

 one to Far-away, '^ to Qota'n," to Nasta'o," to Tclix.i'." After that 

 they gave to all the house chiefs. 



On the day after that the}' sent for NAfi-gut-tci'ng.a, and on that 

 day they twice called us in. After several families had called us in 

 the Earth-eaters invited us. They had bee i giving us food for a 

 while, when a noise arose in the direction of a canoe that they had 



