staken--too young to know. I have
heard of those at Oraibi long ago, and at Awatobi; some were killed at
those places.

"Some of the rafters of this house, not of this room but another part,
were brought from ruins of Awatobi. An uncle of my daughter's husband
here brought some sacred things from Awatobi and revived some of the old
ceremonials that had been dropped on account of our not having the right
things to use for them. Spaniards had already been here and taken some
of those things out of the houses, so some ceremonies could never be
held any more without those things. You see, the Awatobi people had some
such things, too, and so our people wanted to save them. I think some of
our trouble with Awatobi was to get these things.

"I remember that after the famine, when crops were good again, we had
trouble with Navajos. It was in the summer and a Hopi hoeing his field
was killed by a bunch of thieving Navajos, and that started the trouble.
This man who was killed had a crippled nephew working with him at the
time, and that boy got away and ran back to Walpi with the word, and
everybody was surprised that he could run fast enough to get away.

"After that they made him a watchman to look out for Navajos.

"A good while after that two Hopi boys were fired upon by prowling
Navajos who were hiding in the village of Sichomovi. For a number of
years then the Navajos plundered the fields, drove off the stock, and
killed children. Then they stopped coming here for a good while, but
later they began doing all those things again, worse than ever. So then
the Hopi decided to shoot every Navajo they saw in their fields, and
this stopped the trouble.

"Now the Navajos are good friends, come here often, and bring meat."

=The Coyote and the Water Plume Snake,= by Dawavantsie

"Once upon a time a Coyote and a Water Plume Snake got acquainted. One
day the Coyote invited his friend, the big snake, to come and visit him
at his house. The Snake was pleased to be invited, so he went that very
night.

"The Coyote was at home waiting, and when his guest arrived, he told him
to come right in. So the Snake started in, first his head, then his long
body, and more and more of him kept coming in, so that the Coyote had to
keep crowding over against the wall to make room. By the time the Snake
was in, tail and all, the Coyote had to go up and stay outside, for his
visitor took up all the room in his house.

"Now the Coyote could st