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the wand, and the rain began. Deer youth began to run fast and 

 he came to where Hawk youth was sitthig and he said "Friend 

 (poyu), this is the way a man does, so I will say good-bye (huaiyu 

 akuterimi)." And Deer youth ran on. When the rain was over. 

 Hawk youth started to fly, but he was all wet. The people saw 

 them coming. Yellow Earth people were sure their man was ahead ; 

 the White village people were sure it was their man. So they all began 

 to wave blankets and to shout. At tliis time he was not a deer, 

 but a young man. They saw the other man coming behind. Deer 

 youth came in first. The Yellow Earth people were sad, and the 

 White village people were glad they had won. They all went to their 

 respective villages. Next day the White village people made their 

 ceremony of lightning and thunder (nashau upinide au koanide au) 

 to kUl the man. The clouds came, it rained, it lightened and thun- 

 dered. Some of the Yellow Earth people ran out of the village and 

 hid. And the others were killed. And none was left in that village. 

 That old village (natoiluli, village old, i. e., ruin) is still there. The 

 people who hid reared children and the witches of to-day have come 

 from them. From that time they started the races for the sun. 

 What we call the t'aikabede's races. 



Natoai there were living two different peoples, namchor tainin, 

 Yellow Sand people, and nampato tainin. White Sand people. Yellow 

 Sand people would always game and gamble and wanted to excel 

 White Sand people, but somehow they could not get their power 

 good, the way they wanted, because little piliude (big head) belonging 

 to White Sand people had power just like theii's. So Yellow Sand 

 people one time had a council. They decided they would go over to 

 White Sand people and bet their lives and they would get a boy to 

 race against the witch people's boy. Some of the Yellow Sand people 

 said, "But how can we race? We do not know whether we will beat 

 or not." But the leader (kabede) of the Yellow Sand people said, 

 "I will bet my life and the lives of all my children (people) because 

 I know the way." They asked him, "What do you know? " Kabede 

 said, "After we leave the starting place, I will run myself. When I 

 get far away from the Yellow Sand people I will turn myself into a 

 hawk (tq,kiede). I will leave the other runner far behind. I will 

 get in by dinner time long before he gets in." Then all called out, 

 "That's good! Let us do so, so we can take the village away from 

 them." They went to White Sand people and made the bet with 

 them. White Sand people said they had to wait until the next day 

 because they were going to make their council that night. Then the 

 White Sand people called out for a meeting. After they met, they 

 said the Yellow Sand people wanted to bet their lives. The White 



