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FOLK TALES 



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III. PRAYER FRAGMENT ABOUT THE EMERGENCE 



watox' pandoatox' napiau nanal pawita k'oqshambana 



? down five ? levels down verily right there lake coming up 



kika'awei Idkewei iiwabana kikewei nashau ana'weiba 



came up our mothers power 



kabere shure kabere an 



chief shure chief ? 



weiba kashanban kapiwide 



our fathers 



kikabewei 



our chiefs 



our mothers 



shifun 



Black Eyes 



wei piewe iinim 



ers same think 



naweiba inatiire' 



their world 



shasha'dewa kyiu 



born into this world ? 



yxiea 



belonging to them ? 



imimbe papa'ai- 



1 older broth- 



nashau imirn 



their came up kapyo 



fat'owiban wadin waimaiba 



made a gate their horns 



piewirepoteban wakautyfieii 



make you see giving breath from 



Corn Mother, i. 

 e., make you 



power 



inhiimi 



inkaa- 



rub against, dig come or 



kochoa karuau 



kviu na berka'cha 



takeban 



meaning 



tochumi 



kaawe 



father 



tuefuni imiinbe' 



one side of 



kabe hambemi to'ai pia'wide tuwilawedi 



father same next to him [?] cane war chief 



chumi heuwi penawirw'ia shipapunaiti 



from north along river valley (name of spring) 



koai'korikoai kikewei bee betolai'mabana 



name of village our mothers when she was living 



anatomatupi'na betokwolaibana hufibesei uremi 



appointed stay all the time at that time clouds coming 



p'femaihina kibaeo- 



road bringing coming 



hekiibti kaiHripeai 



(name of spring) 



shiw'ibtoa 



Isleta 



na upini 



with lightning 



topo na konshiro topo benamakoakemina.*- 



you hear with thunder you hear 



2. The Disobedient Town Chief 



Natoyai (in the house). 



Response: Hq! 



First they decided they would put in a t'aikabede (town chief). 

 They wondered how could they put in the chief. So they went to the 

 tula (kiva) and they talked it over and talked it over. But they did 

 not know how because they had never seen a chief installed the way 

 they wanted to do it. They were counting their days without food or 

 water, four days. They could do nothing. There was a poor little 

 boy, a crazy Httle boy, tytuude, big head. They hated him. One 

 decided, "We -mR call this tijtuude and see how he can advise us." 

 When the little boy came in, they said to him, "We heard that you are 

 the one who understands about installing a chief. Coidd you tell us 

 about it?" The little boy said, "At the beginning, when we were 

 coirdng, you know you had a chief already, but you left him behind 

 and did not bring him up with you to this world. You left him at 

 Shipapuna." (When we came up, the world closed up again, and the 



-' Collective term for lightning, thunder, falling r 



