378 ISLETA, NEW MEXICO [eth. ann.47 



out SO the animals left alive could go out. So they butchered their 

 animals and the war chief gave them permission to go home. They 

 were only a Uttle way from the village where he made his power. 

 They were all surprised to see the Uttle boy with power. They 

 called liim ka'a or tata; he was not Big Head then. He told the war 

 chief to tell the people to come around next morning to his house. 

 So they went back home and next morning all the people gathered 

 around his house. Even those who had hated his mother had to go. 

 She was land to aU of them. He was sitting in the room, and all 

 around the walls were skins of all the animals and birds in the world. 

 He had a basketful of shelled corn and a basketful of vegetables. 

 Then he called in the towTi chief first and gave him a seat and talked 

 to him and told hhn to go out and tell his people to come in one by 

 one. So the cacique went out and told them. 



The cacique started in first, then the kumpa, then the war chief, 

 then the ka'an (Fathers of medicine societies), then the rest of the 

 people. When the town chief came in, he said, "Hau, hau, hau!" 

 Thanks, Thanks, Thanks ! Then he looked at all the skins and drew 

 his arms in and breathed on his clasped hands. He did this also for 

 the corn and vegetables. (The people had had no food or rain for 

 seven years.) Then the boy put in the hand of the cacique (town 

 chief), standing in front of him, three grains of corn, and four or five 

 grains of wheat, and one of each kind of vegetables, and said to him, 

 "You go to your house and you will find it fidl of aU grains and 

 vegetables." This he repeated for all those there. When they got 

 to their houses the rooms were all fuU of food. His mother and 

 grandmother came and embraced him. He gave grains and vege- 

 tables to his mother and grandmother. Next morning the town 

 chief came again and kumpa and the war chief and the head ka'an, 

 and he took his whistle and went outside and wliistled. Then the 

 clouds came. Wiien the people saw that, they began to pray. The 

 second time he whistled, the lightning and thimder began to sound. 

 At the third whistle it began to ram, and it rained all day. Grass 

 began to grow up in the mountains. All the animals began to live 

 again, the cattle and sheep that had been dying. And all the springs 

 began to run. Then he began to talk to them all, and they began to 

 work on the ceremony they had used before. From then on all the 

 people Uved well together. 



When the people first came up aU the people went on ahead and 

 there was a girl far behind. She did not overtake the people, she 

 was coming slowly beliind. She might have overtaken them, but she 

 was ashamed to go with them because nobody liked her. \Mien they 

 started to go on, she went along slowly. The sun was going down; 



