MINDELEFY.] TRADITIONS—SHUPAULOVI. 29 
They were wanted to keep the coyotes out of the corn and the gardens. 
The dogs grew numerous, and would go to Mashongnavi in search of 
food, and also to some of the people of that village, which led to serious 
quarrels between them and the Eagle people. Ultimately the Shi-taéi-mu 
chief proclaimed a feast, and told the people to prepare to leave the 
village forever. On the feast day the women arranged the food basins 
on the ground in a long line leading out of the village. The people 
passed along this line, tasting a mouthful here or there, but without 
stopping, and when they reached the last basin they were beyond the 
limits of the village. Without turning around they continued on down 
jnto the valley until they were halted by the Snake people. An arrange- 
ment was effected with the latter, and the Eagles built their houses in 
the Snake village. A few of the Eagle families who had become attached 
to Mashongnavi chose to go to that village, where their descendants 
still reside, and are yet held as close relatives by the Eagles of Walpi. 
The land around the East Mesa was then portioned out, the Snakes, 
Horns, Bears, and Eagles each receiving separate lands, and these old 
allotments are still approximately maintained. 
According to the Eagle traditions the early occupants of Tusayan 
came in the following succession: Snake, Horn, Bear, Middle Mesa, 
Oraibi, and Eagle, and finally from the south came the Water families. 
This sequence is also recognized in the general tenor of the legends of 
the other groups. 
Shupaulovi, a small village quite close to Mashongnavi, would seem 
to have been established just before the coming of the Water people. 
Nor does there seem to have been any very long interval between the 
arrival of the earliest occupants of the Middle Mesa and this latest 
colony. These were the Sun people, and like the Squash folk, claim to 
have come from Palatkwabi, the Red Land, in the south. On their 
northward migration, when they came to the valley of the Colorado 
Chiquito, they found the Water people there, with whom they lived for 
some time. This combined village was built upon Homdlobi, a round 
terraced mound near Sunset Crossing, where fragmentary ruins cover- 
ing a wide area can yet be traced. 
Incoming people from the east had built the large village of Awatubi, 
high rock, upon a steep mesa about nine miles southeast from Walpi. 
When the Sun people came into Tusayan they halted at that village 
and a few of them remained there permanently, but the others continued 
west to the Middle Mesa. At that time also they say Chukubi, Shi- 
taimu, Mashongnavi, and the Squash village on the terrace were all 
occupied, and they built on the terrace close to the Squash village also. 
The Sun people were then very numerous and soon spread their dwell- 
ings over the summit where the ruin now stands, and many indistinet 
lines of house walls around this dilapidated village attest its former size. 
Like the neighboring village, it takes its name from a rock near by, 
