376 ISLETA, NEW MEXICO [eth. ann.47 



pinon nuts were under the tree. "While she was picking them up a 

 young man showed himself to her and asked what was she doing. 

 He cracked a nut and gave her the kernel to eat and he told her to 

 go home, she would have lots of piiion when she got there. So she 

 went home and came back the same morning she had started. And 

 her grandmother was surprised she had come back so early. She 

 told her about the young man. She took her grandmother by the 

 ann and took her to the door of the inside room which was so full of 

 pinon she could hardly open the door. "We are not poor now, we 

 are rich," said her grandmother. Then they sold pinon for their 

 living. After a while the girl began to grow large and then she had 

 a child. And all the people wondered where she got the cliild; nobody 

 lUved her. Maybe somebody had come aroimd at night. . . . From 

 the time they had begun to be mean to the girl and spit at her the 

 Fathers (ka'an) could not make their ceremony because they had lost 

 something. So they had meetings all the time to talk about it. 

 They had no rain, no food. The girl's son grew up to be 6 or 7 years 

 old. One night he went out to listen at the top of the tuhx (kiva). 

 Below, the fathers were talking and worrying and thinking they 

 would drop the ceremony altogether. The little boy began to laugh, 

 he laughed three times. They heard, and were angry. The t'aika- 

 bede (towm chief) sent the wilawe (war chief) out to see who was up 

 on the roof. 



The war cliief put up the ladder and went up and found the little 

 boy and he asked him three times, "Who are you?" and the little 

 boy did not answer. The fourth time he said, "I am the one you 

 call Big Head (pityde)." So the war chief went down and told 

 them who it was and the town chief told him to go up and bring him 

 down. And the little boy was ashamed to go do\vii, but he went, 

 following the war chief. They were surprised and ashamed them- 

 selves to see the little boy. The town chief told the war chief to give 

 him a seat b_y the fireplace. So the town chief asked hun what he 

 was laughing about. "Yes, I was laughing at you because you were 

 worrying so much over what you lost, and you do not know what to 

 do, and what you have lost is here with you now." So the town chief 

 stood up in front of him to ask him questions. The little boy said, 

 "You are not the one to stand before me and ask questions. I am 

 the one to stand before you." The town chief asked who was his 

 father? The little boy said his father was hiunuhude. "\Miere 

 does he Kve?" "In Pam'ennowai. "'* So the little boy began to 

 preach to them and the town chief, and the others said he was the 

 one they had lost. So the Fathers bowed their heads, and the town 

 chief advised them not to hate anybody again, and they all asked 

 pardon of the little boy. And he forgave everything. And he told 



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