408 BUKEAU OF AMERICAN ETHNOLOGY [bull. 2y 



War between the people of Kloo and the people of Ninstints 



[Tolfl by Abraham Those-born-at-Ci!ri'dAsgo] 



When they (the Kloo people) lived at People's-f ort ' South-east^ had 

 two wives. One was a woman of the Sand-town people,^ and one was 

 a woman of the Pe))ble-town people.* He loved the Ninstints woman, 

 because she was pretty. For that reason the Pebble-town woman 

 wanted her to do something wrong. 



Then she began helping her to do it and told her husband that she 

 was receiving a man of the Town-of-Dji'gua people.* He then took 

 her outside naked and whipped her. The-elder-Sqaa'n" loved her. 

 And she said of the Pebble-town woman, too: "1 know also about her 

 lover.'' Then South-east heard it, and he began whipping her also. 



The next day both had disappeared. They did not know then 

 whither the two women had gone. The news reached Tcla'ah' News 

 also reached the other mother in the Ninstints country. One morning 

 both mothers appeared together in front of People's-fort. Both sang 

 crying songs for their daughters. The Pebble-town woman and tlie 

 Sand-town woman both sang one [as follows]: 



''On account of this my child moved about. On account of this, 

 when m}' child moved about, they ought to have heard the thunder, 

 when my child moved about on the way home."** 



He then let them come into the fort, and he gave them blood com- 

 pensation. He gave a slave to eacii of them, and he also gave a great 

 deal of property to each of them. Then the canoes parted. The 

 women went away satisfied. 



When it was near summer he went to ask in marriage the younger 

 sister of the Sand-town woman whom he had married. And he came 

 to Man3'-chiefs at Sqa'djigitawa'-i. And, after he had sta3'ed a while 

 with his brother-in-law, he went awa}'. 



Before he had gone far the mother of Many-chiefs said to him: 

 "Many-chiefs, are you a man?"^ He then became angry and took his 

 gun and his paddle. Then the}" pursued South-east. And while they 

 pursued him Man3"-chiefs was left behind. He did not have enough 

 canoe men. 



Then South-east got ofl'. As he fled into the woods he stepped 

 under a fallen tree, a small limb scratched his forehead, and a small 

 stream of blood flowed out down over his cheeks. Then the Ninstints 

 people all came to him. The}' encircled him. They waited for Man}-- 

 chiefs. 



