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you know I held everj'body under my arms, and see what you did to 

 me. Since you are greedy, I will give you all tliis mountain to travel 

 on. I will leave this corn meal for you. If you are lucky, people 

 will remember you with this meal." So Nachoochi gave him corn 

 meal and sent him to the east, the north, the west, and the south, and 

 finall}^ to the east where stands the big rocky mountain. Then 

 Nachoochi went home. He went to the boy's sister and relatives. 

 He gathered them together and told them what he had done on 

 account of the trick his friend had just done to him. Therefore 

 people have to beUeve in the rattlesnake (chararde) for the rattle- 

 snake was a man. From then on Nachoochi lived on as before, until 

 he was ready to get married. And that is as far as I know. 



11. How They Began to Race for the Sun 



At Namchm-tainin^* (earth yellow people) lived bad people. They 

 used to hate each other, and one time the Yellow Earth people went 

 to Nabatotoe (white \'illage) to ask them to have a race and bet one 

 man from the Yellow Earth people and one man from White village. 

 So the people of White village agreed to run. The head men of the 

 Yellow Earth people proposed to bet their Uves. The White village 

 people agreed to it. They had a meeting for one day and over night. 

 The Yellow Earth people had their outi witch ceremony (na'ihy). 

 The White village had the ceremony of the medicine men (lifieto,ynin, 

 root medicine men). The White village people chose a rimner and 

 they worked their power over him, so he would be light and strong, 

 and they gave him the power to run as a deer. They made three 

 cane cigarettes (wire). They told him he was to go kortim, in all 

 du'ections (all aroimd the world). WTien he got to pathuwetoe (east 

 side), where the piaunen *" are, he was to light a cigarette and smoke 

 it in all the five directions and leave it for the piaunen. The Yellow 

 Earth people prepared their runner and made three bundles of nafi 

 (dust or powder). They told him to blow the nafi before he reached 

 pathywetoe and when he turned horn pathywetoe to koafiwetoe (the 

 north) to blow the second bundle of nafi. On the second day they 

 started for Turshuma natuai. Yellow Bird HiU. When they got there 

 the Yellow Earth people wanted to stand on the right side and so did 

 the White \'illage people. 



They began to fight. Then they said they woidd toss for it (ifun'- 

 urihi). The medicine man had already made a ring (maxo'), for they 

 knew beforehand that they were going to dispute positions. The 

 head man of the Wliite village people said, "Let us choose the sides 



"8 The houses just across the river have been so referred to. In this tale the mesa bluli above those houses 

 is the home of the Yellow Earth people. Below the bluff is where the White village lay, where stand the 

 houses occupied to-day. 



M See p. 344. 



