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After his death his skeleton was exposed for a long time, until one 

 day some boys were playing near where it lay. Tliey heard a strange 

 noise like thunder that shook the earth, though there were no clouds 

 in the sky. The boys saw that Elder Brother was regaining Kfe and 

 power. He sat up and rocked back and forth like a drunken person. 

 The boys ran and told their story to the people, who were perplexed 

 and alarmed. They gathered together, bringing all their weapons, 

 and finally surrounded Elder Brother, who was by this time in fidl 

 possession of his power. As the people came about him with their 

 bows and arrows in hand he began to sink down into the earth, and 

 in spite of their outcry he disappeared before their eyes. 



Elder Brother sank through the eartli and found the people that 

 Earth Doctor had assisted to reach that side in order to escape the 

 flood. Elder Brother told the people there of his ill treatment and 

 asked them to come through and fight witli him and to take the land 

 away from the Indians. After four months' preparation they set 

 out upon their journey, first singing the following song: 



We go; we go; we go; we go. 



Happy, we leave our homes. 

 We go; happily we go. 

 We run; we run; we run; we run. 



Happy, we leave our land. 

 With pleasiu-e hence we hasten. 



Elder Brother told Gopher (Tcu'ohS) to bore a hole for the people 

 to come through. Gopher made a hole through the earth like a 

 winding stair. 



Coyote learned that these people were coming out in our country 

 and he went about looking for the place of their emergence. He 

 fuially discovered them coming through like ants from their lulls. 

 Elder Brother told Coyote not to go near them until all had come 

 forth. Coyote did not heed the caution, but went and looked down the 

 hole and laughed, wliich caused the opening to close. Five gentes" 

 had come out, and it is supposed that those that were shut in belonged 

 to yet other gentes. Upon their emergence Elder Brother and his fol- 

 lowers danced and sang as follows: 



Together we emerge with our rattles; 

 Together we emerge with om- rattles, 

 Bright-hued feathers in oiu' headdresses. 



With our nyfinyirsa we went down; 

 With our nyiinjarsa we went down, 

 Wearing Yoku feathers in our headdresses. 



This is the White Land, we arrive singing, 



Headdresses waving in the breeze. 

 We have come! We have come! 



The land trembles with our dancing and singing. 



oSeep. 197. 



