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tbe Black people, wise and possessed of tlie magic of the under-fire, hav- 

 ing dealings also with Ka'kakwe and with the wonderful Chi'ia-kwe — 

 a people like themselves, of corn, and called therefore People of Corn 

 grains, — they and their Ka'ka, the K'ydniak'ya-kwe, or Snail Beings 

 of the South (those who waged war with men and their Ka'ka in after 

 times), for these reasons they, the Summer people, led the people of 

 Corn and Seed aiid these alien people. 



And as before, the people of the Middle — yea, and those of the Seed 

 and Dew who especially cherished the chuetone and the Maidens of 

 Corn — sought the Middle through the midmost way, led of Ahaiyuta, 

 the elder, and his Priests of the Bow. 



THE NORTHWARD EASTERN JOURNEY OF THE WINTER CLANS. 



The People of Winter, those led by the 'Hleeto-kwe, and MAtsai- 

 lema, fought their way fiercely into the valley of the Snow-water river 

 (tJk'yawane — Eio Puerco del Poniente), settling first at the mnd- 

 issuing springs of that valley (Hekwainankwin), where their villages 

 may be seen in mounds to this day, and the marks of the rites of their 

 fathers and of their kin-names on the rocks tliereabout. 



And they became far wanderers toward the north, building towns 

 wheresoever they paused, some high among the clifls, others in the 

 plains. And how they reached at last the " Sacred City of the Mists 

 Enfolded" (Shipapulima, at the Hot Springs in Colorado), tlie Middle 

 of the world of Sacred Brotherhoods (Tik'yaawa Itiwuua), and were 

 taughtof Poshaiarik'yaere he descended again; and how they returned 

 also, thus building everywhere they tarried, along the Eiver of Great 

 Water-flowing, (Rio Grande del Norte) even back to the mountains of 

 Zuuiland (Shiwina yalawau) and settled finally at the Place of Planting 

 (TiViya or Las Nutrias) — all this and more is told in the sjieeches they 

 themselves hold of our ancient discourse. 



THE SOUTHWARD EASTERN JOURNEY OF THE SUMMER CLANS. 



The people of Corn and the Seeds, guided by the Kwinikwakwe, fared 

 for long peacefully, southward along the valley of the River of Red 

 Flowing Waters, building them towns of beauty and greatness, as may 

 be seen to this day, and the marks of their rites also are on the rocks 

 whithersoever they traveled. Far south they fared until they came 

 to the great valley of Shohkoniman (home, or place of nativity, of 

 the Flute-canes) beneath the Mountain of Flutes (Shohko ydlana — La 

 Sierra Escudilla), whence they turned them eastward. 



How they builded thereafter, wheresoever long they remained, not 

 single towns, but for each sept of their kinties a town by itself, and 

 the names of these clan-towns, and the wars they fought contending 

 with the Ka'ka, and how finally tliey reached the Mountain of Space- 

 speaking Markings (Yala Tetsinapa), then turned them back west- 



