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Albert, Roy; And Others[Coyote Tales. 'English Version.]Northern Arizona Supplementary l'ducation Center,T'lagstaff.Fureau of Indian Affairs (DPpt. of Tnterior),Washington, D.C.Jun 71

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Honi storytellers toll, in Hopi, 20 stories for thissupplementary reading series. Each story was translt.ted into Fnalish,graded (1.1 to and illustrated. These stories normally serve toentertain as well as to instruct both children and adults during thewinter nights. Several of the stories have Coyote as the centralcharacter. He typifies the clever, mischievous one who, through hisscheming, often overreaches himself and becomes the butt of his ownjoke. The Hopi stories, unlike ruropean ones, almost never spell outthe moral but leave it implicit, to hr. drawn out as the hearerrecIlls or ponders a tale. A related document (PC 005 099) containsthe same stories printed in the gopi language. (LS)

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"It is good that you came. Help me with my harvest.I will give you some lunch."

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So Coyote went to the melon field. He filled abasket with melons. He took all that he could carry.

Grasshopper picked some peaches. He put themin Coyote's basket too.

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Coyote lifted the basket. "I don't know if I cancarry it," he said. Grasshopper helped him put on theshoulder straps. Coyote started for Coyote Ridge.

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Once again, this story takes place at Oraibi. Westof the village is a place called Snow Mountain. At thisplace there lived some turtles.

A mother turtle lived there with her little turtles.Near Snow Mountain was a spring. Bulrushes andcattails grew near the spring. The turtles would go tothe spring. They would eat the bulrushes and cattails.

Soon the spring began to dry up. Only a tricklewas left. The turtles still went to look for their favoritefood. But very little could they find.

One day mother turtle said to the little tyi.rtles,"The spring is drying up. There is very little food forus. We must go home to Blue Lake. There we will findmuch food and water."

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So they made ready to leave. Mother turtle said,"We must leave early. It is far away. We must go beforethe sun is up."

Night came. The turtles went to sleep early. Theyhad a long way to go in the morning.

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Very early mother turtle woke the little turtles.They soon were on their way to Blue Lake.

When they were somewhere west of Shongopavimother turtle stopped. She looked at the little turtles.She cried out, "Oh dear! We are not all here. There isone missing. We will have to go without the youngestone." So they went on. All of the turtles were sad.

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In the afternoon he passed a hill. This was nearShongopavi. Also, about that time, a coyote was huntingnear the hill.

The coyote heard someone crying. He ran up asmall hill He looked around. The crying was comingnot far from the coyote. he ran to another hill. Againhe looked around. Then he saw the little turtle. Thelittle turtle was at the foot of the hill.

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The coyote asked, "Why are you crying?" "I amnot crying," said the little turtle. "I am singing."

The coyote then asked, "What are you doing outhere? It is hot today. Where are you going? It is toohot to go far."

The little turtle answered, "We were going to BlueLake. My mother did not wake me up. I am trying tofollow them. And, I am not crying. I am singing asI follow the tracks."

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The little turtle answered, "Go right ahead. Eatme. I will not die."

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The coyote picked up the little turtle. He ran tothe river. It was a long way. They reached the riverlate in the afternoon.

The river was full and fast. The coyote jumpedin with the little turtle. He let the little turtle go. Thelittle turtle swam across the river. He climbed out onthe bank. He called out, "The river is good. It is likehome to me. It is not true that I will die. So long,coyote.

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The little turtle went on his way. He walked onand on. When the sun was about to go down hereached a place not far from Blue Lake,

The little turtle looked all around. He could notfind the tracks. "I am ahead of them," he thought."I will wait for the other turtles."

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The little turtle found a bush. He crawled underit. There he waited for the others.

After a while he saw the other turtles coming.Soon they reached him. The little turtle came out fromunder the bush. He ran to greet them.

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Mother turtle and the little turtles were surprised.They were very glad to see him again. Mother turtlesaid, "Oh my! How did you get here? I thought wewould never see you again. We forgot to wake you upwhen we left."

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Mother turtle said, "Oh thank you! I am happythat the coyote believed you. He is so easy to fool.Now we will go on. We should reach Blue Lake justas the sun is down."

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So they all went on to Blue Lake. They were thereas the sun went down. They all jumped in and beganeating the plants that grew there. Then they all feltstrong again. They were happy to be home. They maystill live at Blue Lake to this day.

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Years ago many people lived at Oraibi. A shortway west of Oraibi, north of Flute Springs, there liveda mother kingbird.

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The mother kingbird had five little kingbirds. Shewould hunt and bring them things to eat. The littlekingbirds grew until they were old enough to fly andplay around the place where they lived.

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One day the mother kingbird told her little kingbirdsthat she would go out and hunt. She told the littlekingbirds to keep their eyes open and keep away fromthe coyote while she was gone. If the coyote came uponthem in his daily wanderings and wanted to eat them,the little kingbirds were told to refuse him and tell himabout their mother's warnings.

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The mother kingbird left to hunt. She huntedgrasshoppers, moths, and other insects to feed herlittle kingbirds.

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By and by, the coyote came upon the littlekingbirds. The little kingbirds did not see the coyote.He had hidden himself under a bush and then watchedthem from there.

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The little kingbirds, not knowing the coyote wasnear were playing by their nest. They would chaseeach other around, fly a little s8 ay off the ground andcome down again. They were having a lot of fun.

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Then one of the little kingbirds saw the coyote. Thelittle kingbird said, "Oh, my! The coyote is watchingus from under a bush."

"Remember our mother's warning," said anotherlittle kingbird.

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Sure enough, the coyote said, "Yum, yum, I shouldlike very much to eat all of you." The little kingbirdsall said, "No, we will not let you eat us. Our mothersaid we must not let you eat us."

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The little kingbirds kept on playing. The coyotekept watching and waiting for a chance to grab and eatone of the little kingbirds if one got close enough to him.

After a little while, one of the little kingbirds flewtoo close to the coyote. The coyote grabbed the littlekingbird and quickly swallowed it. Whenever a littlekingbird got too close, the coyote would quicklyswallow it. After a short while, the coyote had swallowedall of the little kingbirds.

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After the coyote had swallowed all the littlekingbirds, he went north from Flute Springs, up overthe Sandstone Ridge near Oraibi to a sandy place. Theyoung men of Oraibi ran races there now and then.

The coyote sat down to rest. Then, all of a sudden,he felt strange. His stomach was doing strange things.The little kingbirds were playing inside the coyote'sstomach! He had not chewed the little kingbirds whenhe swallowed them, so the little kingbirds were alive andplaying inside his stomach!

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"The people of Oraibi do not believe my song. It isa warning. In four days a flood will come and coverthis village." The women came out of their houses tolisten to the coyote. The men were working in theirfields and were not at home to see the coyote and hearhis song.

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One woman said, "What shall we do?" Anotherwoman said, "We must go tell the chief of the village.

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So the women went and got the village chief. Heasked the women what they wanted. The women toldhim what the coyote had sung in the plaza.

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The village chief then went to the plaza. Thereindeed was the coyote. He was still wAking around inthe plaza and was still singing his strange song.

The village chief listened. Then he said to thecoyote, "I will not let this terrible thing happen toOraibi. I want my people to live. They are my childrenand I want them to live."

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The village chief told the women to give some thingsto the coyote so that their village would be spared fromthe flood. The women ran to their houses. By this time,some men had returned to Oraibi from their fields. Theytoo became excited and gave many things to the coyote.

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The coyote received deer hides, moccasins, stripsof 1:_tather, and other things the Hopis thought werevaluable.

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The coyote, burdened with many things, then wentto the village of Shongopavi. When he got there, hewent straight to the village plaza. There he prancedaround in the plaza and sang his strange song. Only, thistime he sang that Shongopavi would be covered witha flood in four days.

The women that were close by heard the coyotesing his song about the flood. They went and looked fortheir husbands to tell them about the coyote's song

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The men came and listened to the coyote. One mansaid, "No, we must not let this terrible thing happento our village. Perhaps if we give some things to thecoyote, our village will be spared."

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The men gave the coyote many things. They gavehim blankets, cotton belts, deer hides, moccasins, andmany other things. The coyote thanked the people, thenwent east from Shongopavi over to Mishongnovi.

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Meanwhile, the mother kingbird had finished huntingand arrived at her nest. She looked here and there, butcould not find her little kingbirds.

The mother kingbird found the coyote's tracks.She knew then that the coyote had eaten her littlekingbirds. So, as fast as she could, the mother kingbirdfollowed the coyote's tracks to Oraibi.

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By and by, the mother kingbird reached Oraibi.There she asked the people if they had seen the coyote.

The Oraibi people said, "Yes, the coyote was here,but he left Oraibi and went over to Shongopavi. Hesang in the plaza of a flood that would come in fourdays and cover Oraibi. We gave him gifts so that ourvillage might be spared."

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The mother kingbird told the Oraibi people whatthe coyote had done. She told them that the coyotehad eaten her little kingbirds and that he must bepunished. The people agreed with the mother kingbird.

The mother kingbird was followed by the Oraibipeople. They went to Shongopavi to try to catch andpunish thee coyote.

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When the mother kingbird and her friends, theOraibi people, reached Shongopavi, the mother kingbirdasked the people there if they had seen fie coyote.

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"Yes," the villagers answered. "The coyote washere. He went to Mishongnovi."

The villagers also told the mother kingbird whatthe coyote had sung to them in the plaza. Theysaid, "The coyote sang a song of a flood that wouldcome in Shongopavi in four days. We gave him giftsso that Shongopavi would be spared."

The mother kingbird told the people of Shongopaviabout the coyote's bad deed. The mother kingbirdsaid the coyote must be punished for eating her littlekingbirds.

Like the people of Oraibi, the people of Shongopaviagreed with the mother kingbird. They told the motherkingbird, "The coyote must be punished. We will takeour planting sticks, and our rabbit sticks, and hit himwith them."

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The mother kingbird, the Oraibi people, and thepeople of Shongopavi all went to Mishongnovi to tryto catch the coyote.

By and by, the mother kingbird and her manyfriends, the Oraibi people and the Shongopavi people,reached Mishongnovi.

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The coyote was in the plaza singing his strangesong. The coyote was carrying many things on his back.He could barely be seen under the pile of things that hewas carrying. Even then, the people of Mishongnoviwere giving the coyote still many more things.

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The mother kingbird told the Mishongnovi peoplethat they must catch the coyote. She told them that thecoyote had eaten her little kingbirds and must bepunished. The Mishongnovi people said, "Yes, we willcatch and punish the coyote. We will block off theentrance to the plaza with logs. The coyote must notget out."

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So, the people of Mishongnovi, along with thepeople from Shongopavi and Oraibi, blocked all theentrances to the plaza. They chased the coyote aroundthe plaza until he was caught.

They all took their things away from the coyote.They would say, "This is mine, that is mine," andtake away their things.

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The people let the coyote go. He was going to beall right. He would never eat little kingbirds again.

All the people went back to their homes. Theywere happy that they had gotten back their valuablethings.

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"Yes," said Swallow. "I always fly fast. I catchmosquitoes and others like that. They don't fly fast.But they do turn fast."

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Many of the antelope had baby antelope. Thelittle antelope would lie in the sunflowers. They wouldall be at one place sometimes. The baby antelope wouldsleep or watch as their mothers ate.

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Sure enough, there was a herd of antelope in thedistance. He could see the white of their backs.

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When the coyote got to the little antelope hethought, "How will I catch it? Where will I grab it?"Before he could decide the baby antelope jumped up.It began to run unsteadily away.

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Coyote jumped after the little antelope. He didnot catch it. The little antelope began to grow stronger.Then the little antelope ran away with all its might.

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It ran away from the sunflower field toward RockRidge. The coyote ran after it. Up Rock Ridge anddown the other 'side they ran. The coyote would grabat the little antelope but it would get away.

They reached a wash. It was dry, so down intothe wash they ran. Up on the other side they went.

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At last coyote caught up with baby antelope again.The coyote thought, "I will jump for its throat." Thepoor little antelope was crying as it ran.

Then the coyote lunged for the baby antelope'sthroat. The baby antelope jumped just as the coyotelunged. What the coyote did not see was an old earthoven that someone had used to roast corn.

The coyote fell right into the old oven. The littleantelope had jumped over the old oven just as thecoyote lunged after it.

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When the coyote fell into this old oven, the littleantelope slowed down. Then it stopped to see if thecoyote would come out of the oven. The coyote didnot come out. Little antelope went off feeling happythat it was not killed by the coyote.

The coyote got out of the oven long after thelittle antelope had gone its way.

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the coyoteand the chipmunk

A HOPI TALE AS TOLD BY ROY ALBERT

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Coyote jumped up. He looked all around. He couldsee no one. He sat down again to rest.

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Again Coyote heard the whistle. Just thenChipmunk climbed out on the rock. "Oh! It was you,"said Coyote. "You scared me."8

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"I was just singing," said Chipmunk. "I did notwant to scare you."

"I have heard that before," said Coyote. "NowI know who made that sound."

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"1 cannot whistle," said Coyote. "I have my ownkind of sound.' It is a good sound. Next time youwhistle I will answer you."

"That is good," said Chipmunk. "Please do that."

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A HOPI TALE AS TOLD BY CHARLIE TALAWEPI

ILLUSTRATED BY DR. DON DCIUGLASS

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Once upon a time a squirrel lived near the SanFraqciEtco Peaks. The squirrel lived in a large pine tree.

Nearby in another pine tree lived a bee. Now andthen the bee would visit the squirrel. The squirrel wouldthen return the visit.

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One day the bee went over to visit the squirrel. Thebee came to the tree where the squirrel lived. The treewas very tall. The bee looked up and up to the placewhere the squirrel lived. The bee hollered up to thesquirrel, "Are you home?" "Yes, I am home. Pleasecome up," answered the squirrel.

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So the bee began to fly up the tree. The bee circledthe tree as he flew. He went higher and higher. Hereached a branch near a hole in the tree. This was wherethe squirrel lived.

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The bee settled on the branch. "Have you come?"said the squirrel from inside the hole. "Yes," said thebee. Then the bee went inside the hole in the tree.4 126

The bee and the squirrel sat and talked. The squirrelfed the bee some food. After a while the bee said, "Comeand see me tomorrow." The squirrel answered, "Thankyou I will." Soon the bee went home.

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The squirrel began to climb up the tree. He wentvery fast. He jumped from branch to branch. He reachedthe branch where the bee was waiting. "You have come,"said the bee. "Yes," answered the squirrel. The bee andthe squirrel went inside the hole in the tree.8

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The squirrel asked the bee, "What is this that I'meating?" The bee answered, "It is something made outof the juice of many flowers." "Thank you. I haveenjoyed it. I am very full," said the squirrel.

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A HOPI TALE AS TOLD BY CHARLIE TALAWEPI

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Once again, people lived at Oraibi. A coyotelived west of Oraibi at Coyote Ridge. The coyote hada wife.

Sometimes the coyote would go over to Oraibi.He would look for things for himself and for his wife.One day coyote was looking around. He found an olddress that someone had thrown away. Coyote took thedress home. He gave it to his wife to wear.

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The coyote's wife wore the dress for a while. Thedress was already worn out. It did not last very long.There were holes all over the dress. Her belt, too, wasvery worn.

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The coyote said, "I should go over to Oraibi andlook for some cotton strings. You can sew your dresswith thy: m. The coyote's wife said, "That is good."

The coyote went over to Oraibi. He began lookingfor some cotton strings. The coyote looked all over thetrash piles. Now and then he would find a string andshake off the dirt. Some of the strings were still good.

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At last the coyote found enough strings. He startedhome. On the way home he found a hole in somerocks. There were pebbles and little sticks around thehole. The coyote saw a bone needle sticking out of thehole. "This is just what I want. My vfife can sew herdress with this," said the coyote.

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He started to pull out the bone needle. Someonesaid, "Ouch! Ouch! That is my bill." A wren was sittingon her eggs in the hole.

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"It is too bad you are sitting in there. I thoughtI would get myself a nice bone needle," said the coyote."I'm sorry. That is the way my bill is shaped," saidthe wren.

The coyote went home without a bone needle.The coyote's wife would have sewn her dress with theneedle. That ends this story.

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the coyote anOthe qnasshoppEP

A HOPI TALE AS TOLD BY CHARLIE TALAWEPI

ILLUSTRATED BY DR. DON DOUGLASS

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Long ago, people lived at Oraibi. West of Oraibiat Coyote Ridge lived a coyote.

When spring came the coyote would hunt often.He would often hunt along the rocky hills near Oraibi.

One day coyote was hunting north of Oraibi. Itwas very hot. The sand burned his feet. He could notfind anything.

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The coyote became thirsty. "I must find a placeto drink," he thought. The coyote then went to SpiritCanyon to look for water. Sometimes there was alot of water there in the springtime.

When he got to the spring there was only a littlewater. The water was not clean. The coyote did notdrink any water.

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Coyote left the spring. He went back up SpiritCanyon. He followed the ridge of the canyon andcame to a place where there was a cornfield. "Someone,"he thought, "has a very good cornfield."

Just then someone was moving around in thecornfield. Coyote found some bushes and hid behindthem. He watched as someone kept moving and hoeingabout the cornfield.

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There was a large shelter at one edge of thecornfield. As he reached the shelter the person threwaway his hoe and jumped under the shelter.

The coyote went over to the shelter to see whoit was that owned the cornfield and the shelter. "Iwonder who it is that owns this fine cornfield," thecoyote thought as he came near the shelter.

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Then the grasshopper looked around and saw thecoyote standing there looking at him. The grasshopperwas afraid. "The coyote will surely eat me," he thought.

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"Do you live here?" the coyote asked."Yes I do. Sit down," said the grasshopper."Are you traveling through here today?" asked thegrasshopper. The coyote said, "Yes."6

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Then the grasshopper said, "Yes, I have thiscornfield. I told the people of Oraibi that I would hoemy field. I have a big pot of stew. If the people hadcome and helped me I would have shared the stewwith them."

"I think that this shelter is going to come downon me," said the grasshopper. "Lie down beside me andput your feet up to the roof. I will go tell my wife thatit is time to eat."

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"I am really telling the truth. I have a big pot ofstew. I wanted the people to help me hoe my field. It islate and nobody is here. Get down here and hold upthe shelter so that I may go tell my wife. We will havea. good meal," said the grasshopper.

So the coyote got down under the shelter andput his feet up against the roof. The grasshopper jumpedfrom under the shelter.

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The grasshopper went back and forth in thecornfield. "Where can I run away to so the coyote won'tfind me?" he thought. The grasshopper kept walkingaround until he reached a row of corn far away fromthe coyote. He picked out a plant and pulled out thetassel. Then the grasshopper got inside the plant andstuck the tassel back in after him. The grasshopperwatched the coyote from the plant.

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Meanwhile the coyote was waiting. The shadowsof the shelter grew longer. Still the grasshopper didnot come. His legs began to hurt. "Perhaps if I throwmyself over there and then roll myself away from theshelter it may not fall on me," thought the coyote.

The coyote's legs hurt more than ever. With all hismight the coyote threw himself away from under theshelter. He rolled fast and as far as he could away fromthe shelter. Then he got up. The shelter did not evenmove. The grasshopper had lied to him.

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The coyote was angry. He said, "You are not nice,grasshopper. I will go look for you. When I find youI will eat you."

The coyote then went to look for the grasshopper.After a while he found the grasshopper's tracks. Thecoyote went all over the cornfield following the tracks.He sniffed here and there as he went along.

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The grasshopper watched as the coyote came nearerand nearer. Finally the coyote reached the plant wherethe grasshopper was hidden. The coyote looked aroundthe plant. The tracks stopped at the edge of the plant."Where could the grasshopper have gone? These are histracks," thought the coyote.

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The coyote looked through the leaves of the plant.He could not find the grasshopper. Just then the coyotesaw that one of the plant's tassels looked a little dry.

The coyote pulled out the tassel. Sure enough, therewas the grasshopper sitting under the plant. "Ah ha!I have found you. Come on out. You lied to me. Itgrew late but you never came back. I shall eat you. Socome out," said the coyote.

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The grasshopper came out slowly. "It has grownlate? Well, I really did tell you the truth. Let us gohome now. You must be tired and hungry. I live onlya short way from here," said the grasshopper.

The coyote said, "All right. But do not lie to meagain. When we get to your home if you have nothingfor me to eat I will eat you for sure!"

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The coyote and the grasshopper went to thegrasshopper's house. They soon reached the house. Thehouse was a large burrow. The grasshopper invited thecoyote into the house.

While the grasshopper's wife was cooking the stew,the grasshopper told his wife that the coyote washunting near his cornfield and came by to see him.The grasshopper did not tell his wife how the coyotealmost ate him.

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The grasshopper said, "Let us eat." He told hiswife to get a bowl for coyote and fill it with stew. Theyall ate. They did not even eat all of the stew. Whenthey finished eating the coyote said to the grasshopper,"I know you now. I will not bother you again. Let usbe friends." The coyote thanked the grasshopper andthen went on his way.

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Near the village there also lived a wren.Her nest was in a big pile of rocks. The wrenalso had little ones of her own. Each day thewren would go out to find food for her little ones.

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When the wren finished her song, she startedback to her nest.

"Wait," called the coyote. "Sing your songonce again so I can learn it. I would like tosing it to my little ones."

"All right," said the wren, "I will sing itonce more, but I don't think you can learn it."

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The wren sang again.

"I think I know it now," said the coyote."Please, please sing it just once more."

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The coyote waited and waited, but the wrendid not come out again. When the coyote knewthat the wren was not going to sing again, shestarted to go home.

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On the way home the coyote thought aboutthe wren singing. The more the coyote thoughtabout the wren refusing to sing for her, theangrier she became.

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Back in her nest the wren had also beenthinking. She knew the coyote was very angry."I am sure," she thought, "the coyote will neverlearn my song and she will probably eat me."

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she was finished, the wren put it on the rockwhere she usually sang.

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Early the next morning the coyote came tothe nest and found the wren made of skin and

pebbles. Thinking it was the real wren, shespoke to it. "I see you are here already," saidthe coyote. "Sing your song for me. I am goingto learn it today."

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The wren did not answer, and the coyotebecame very angry.

"All right," said the coyote. "I am notgoing to be nice to you any longer."

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And with that the coyote grabbed the wrenof skin and pebbles and began to eat it.

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"Oh dear! Oh dear!" said the coyote asher teeth began to crack. "Why did you do thisto me, wren?" And she ran away crying.20 177

On her way home the coyote stopped by aspring to get a drink and to wash her mouth out.When she put her mouth to the water, she sawher reflection and became very frightened.

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From spring to spring she went, but at eachone she saw the same reflection. The last thecoyote was seen, she was looking for anotherspring.

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A HOPI TALE AS TOLD BY CHARLIE TALAWEPIILLUSTRATED BY DR. DON DOUGLASS

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Once upon a time many people lived in the villages.One summer the piiion trees near the villages bore a lotof pinon nuts.

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Not far to the west of Hotevilla was a placewhere many pition trees grew. One day several girlsfrom Oraibi went to pick the pinon nuts that had fallento the ground.

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When the girls got to the place where the piliontrees grew they began picking the piiion nuts off theground. After a while the girls had picked a lot ofpiiion nuts.

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Then the girls gathered up some dry twigs andbuilt fires. They roasted the piiion nuts over the firesin pottery bowls that they had brought with them.

When evening came the girls brought out some foodfrom their baskets and ate. After they had eaten theywent back to Oraibi with the piiion nuts.4 187

Once back in Oraibi, the girls sprinkled the pirionnuts with salt water. They then set the baskets of prrionnuts out in the sun to dry.

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Meanwhile, unknown to the girls, a ground squirrellived not far from the village. One day the squirrel wasout looking for something to eat. He came upon thepifion nuts the girls had set out to dry. Right awaythe squirrel began to take mouthfuls of piiion nuts tohis home.

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One girl, while checking her basket of pirion nuts,found that someone had taken many of the pirionnuts from the baskets. She told the other girls ofher discovery.

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The girls ran to their baskets. To their dismay theyfound a lot of pilion m.zts {one from their baskets. Thegirls were unhappy and Angry at the same time. "Whowould do such a thing?" said one girl. "We must findthis person," said another girl.

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Then one gi-rl noticed some trac'cs around thebaskets. The track; also led away from the baskets. Thegirls followed the hacks. A little later they came upona large hole in a jock.

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The girls looked inside the hole in the rock. To:_heir surprise they found a large pile of pilion nutsinside the hole. Someone had taken their pilion nutsand stored them inside the hole in the rock.

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Meanwhile, not far away, the squirrel sat on thetop of a rock. He watched the girls as they were lookinginside his home.

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"Why are you taking the pi ion nuts from myhouse?" said the squirrel to the girls.12

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"Because .the pirion nuts belong to us. You tookthem from our baskets and brought them here," saidthe girls.

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"Then you must pay me," said the squirrel tothe girls.

"We could not pay you anything," answered thegirls.

"Yes you can," said the squirrel. "You can makeme some small blue corn bread. I like that very much."

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"All right," said the girls. They then took the pit-ionnuts back with them. When the girls reached their homethey made some blue corn bread. When the bread wasmade they took it oven the squirrel.

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The girls put the bread in the hole in the rockwhere the squirrel lived. "Hear us. We have brought yourblue corn bread," said the girls.

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The squirrel jumped from the top of a rock wherehe was sitting and ran to the girls. The squirrel pickedup one piece of the blue corn bread. He quicklyunwrapped it and began to eat it.

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The girls then went home. In this way they gottheir pirion nuts back and paid the squirrel. Perhapsthe squirrel is still busy eating the blue corn bread.

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A HOPI TALE AS TOLD BY CHARLIE TALAWEPIILLUSTRATED BY DR. DON DOUGLASS

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Long ago, many people lived at Oraibi. People stilllive there today.

Just west of Oraibi, at Coyote Hill, a coyote alsolived. On warm days in spring and summer the coyotewould hunt. He hunted in canyons and other placesaround Oraibi.

The coyote had favorite hunting grounds. He likedthe places best where he could find many rabbits andother small animals. These were easy to catch.

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One particular day he hunted near a ridge northof Oraibi. He trotted along until he reached a placenear the top of the ridge. Then he became thii-sty.

The coyote started to Sand Springs to drink, Hewent below Windy Mesa. There, also, people once lived.No one lives there now. The coyote found a dry wash.He followed it up to Sand Springs.

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When the coyote reached Sand Springs he drankfor a long time. He was very hot and very thirsty.

He drank the cool water. Then he found a shadyplace near the water. There he rested for a while.

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When he was through resting he went east fromSand Springs. He followed an old path up over the ridge.He came to a place where there were many junipertrees.4 206

All at once he heard laughing and singing. Thesounds came from somewhere to the north. He stoppedand listened. "Yes," the coyote thought. "There islaughing and singing somewhere. I shall find where itcomes from." So the coyote went to look for the placewhere the laughing and singing was coming from.

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The coyote went up a small sandy ridge. At thetop he sat down under a tree.

Then he saw some little Pition Jays. They weredancing and singing near a big juniper tree. As theysang and danced they went round and round in a circle.Their wings were spread out and touched one another.

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When they stopped dancing and singing they wouldfly high the air. Soon they would come down again.They came down very fast. To the coyote it seemedthat the little Pirion Jays just fell to the ground.

When they came back they would light on topof the junipers.

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By and by they would jump down off the trees.They would sing and dance and then they would INhigh into the sky all over again.

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The coyote watched carefully. He said to himself,"What are they doing? They seem to have a lot of fun."

Just then one of the little Pirion Jays saw thecoyote. The little Pirion Jay said, "Look. A coyoteis watching us." The other little Pirion Jays asked,"Where is he?" Another little Pirion Jay said, "Overthere. He is hiding under that tree."

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The little Pirion Jays asked the coyote to come onover. The coyote did not come right away. He waiteda little while. Then he went over to the little Pin-on Jays.

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The little Pi lion Jays told the coyote, "You mustplay with us. We will teach you our song. Listencarefully. We will sing it through once. Sing with uswhen we start again the second time."

The coyote said, "I will listen carefully. It shouldnot be hard to learn."

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One little Pirion Jay told the coyote, "Learn oursong. Then we will give you some of our feathers. Wewill stick them to your arms and legs. You can go highinto the sky with us. When we let you go you will flyback down to the ground just as we do. It is fun. Youwill see."

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The little Piiion Jays sang their song. Then theybegan a second time. The coyote sang with them. Hesang very loud. Soon only his voice could be heard.The coyote had a loud strong voice.

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When they finished singing the little Pinion Jayspulled out some of their feathers. They stuck them onthe coyote's arms and legs and back. He was veryhappy. He wanted to fly into the sky and back downto the g. ound.

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The little Pirion Jays said, "Make a circle with us.We w',11 hold on to each other. Sing for us while wedance round and round. Then we will take youhigh into the sky with us. You will fly down byyourself. It will be easy."

The coyote began singing. All of them danced.They danced round and round in a circle. The coyotelooked funny with feathers on his arms and legs andback.

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After a while the coyote stopped singing. Theyall stopped dancing. The little Pi lion Jays grabbed thecoyote. Up and up they went. They flew high intothe sky.

When they were up high in the sky they let goof the coyote. The little Pi lion Jays came downvery fast.

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The little Pirion Jays flew over to the coyote.They took away their feathers from his arms and legsand back. Each one would say, "This is mine. Thatis mine." They would take several feathers at a time.

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The poor coyote jumped off the tree. He ran asfast as he could for Coyote Hill.

The little Pinon Jays had played a trick on thecoyote. They had tricked him into playing gameswith them. The coyote could not fly with feathersstuck to him. The coyote played with the little PinonJays because he was very foolish.

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Long ago, people lived at Oraibi. At Coyote Ridgelived a coyote. When spring came the coyote wouldhunt far and near. He looked for small game to catch.Sometimes it did not rain. It would be dry. Then thecoyote would not find any game.

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When summer came the coyote went out one dayto a field. He found a lot of flowers. There were allkinds of flowers blooming. He thought, "It must bea good summer. Many good things are growing here."

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When the coyote reached the fields he saw abutterfly. The butterfly was flying through the flowers.It would stop at one flower and then another. Thecoyote sat near by. He watched the butterfly as itflew arround.

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A HOPI TALE AS TOLD BY ROY ALBERT

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Long ago people lived in Oraibi. One man hadan eagle.

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The eagle was young. The man fed the eagle. Itneeded much food.

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The man worked all day. He would hunt on hisway home. He 1N,ould hunt food for his eagle.

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The man worked hard. Sometimes he was verytired. Then he was too tired to hunt food for the eagle.

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The boys told the man that they liked the eagle.The man said, "I understand. Do not feel sad. We needeagle feathers. Think of all the ways the feathers willbe used."

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The eagle was killed. The man gave the boys theirfeathers. They were good feathers.

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The boys made new arrows. They were good strongarrows. Perhaps the boys are still hunting with theirnew arrows.

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Once upon a time a mockingbird lived not far fromHotcvilla. The med(ingbird lived in a juniper tree. Thejuniper tree was near a cornfield.

Each day the mockingbird would go out to huntfor insects. Some days he would go far. Other days hewould hunt in and around the cornfields near wherehe lived.

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The man was singing as he went about his hoeing.The mockingbird watched the man for a while. Themockingbird then asked the man, "Why are you singing?"The man answered, "I am singing because I want mycorn and watermelon plants to grow big. Then they willbear plenty of corn and watermelons."

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The mockingbird said, "I shall help you sing. Iknow songs of many kinds of birds." The man answered,"Thank you. That is good. I will help you hunt forinsects after I get through hoeing."

They both began to sing. The man sang hisfavorite Kachina songs. The mockingbird sang his favoritebird songs.

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On his travels about the country the mockingbirdhad met different kinds of birds. Each had a differentsong. Whenever the mockingbird learned a new songhe would sing it. He sang whenever he rested at his treeor at other places.

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The man learned his songs from the Kachinas thatcame to his village. The Kachinas came to the villageat different times of the year. Sometimes the Kachinasdanced in the kivas on winter nights. Other times theydanced in the village plaza during the day. Each timethe man sang a song he remembered the Kachinas whosang that song. He remembered how good it had feltwhen he heard the song.

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Later that day the man finished his hoeing. Themockingbird stopped singing. The man said, "Now letus hunt insects for you." They hunted around the peachtrees that grew at the edge of the cornfield. In a veryshort time they caught many insects. The man said, "Thisshould be enough for you." The mockingbird said, "Yes,we have caught enough. Thank you."

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The mockingbird and the man went to a shelterat one edge of the cornfield. They talked for a while.Just before the sun went down they both went home.The man went home to his family in Hotevilla. Themockingbird went home to his tree near the cornfield.Perhaps the mockingbird and the man still sing theirsongs together. That ends this story.8

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A HOPI TALE AS TOLD BY CHARLIE TALAWEPIILLUSTRATED BY DR. DON DOUGLASS

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Long ago people lived at Oraibi. Just west of Oraibia coyote lived at Coyote Ridge.

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Sometimes the men of Oraibi went to the easternpueblos of the Rio Grande River to trade. They tradedbelts, kilts, and other ceremonial clothing. They alsotraded things they had made. They often traded forturquoise necklaces, bracelets, and earrings. Sometimesthey did very well in their trading.

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The coyote thought about the trading trips. Hewanted to take a trip to see how well he could do. Hewent over to Oraibi to see what he could find.

The people of Oraibi sometimes threw awayclothing. They sometimes threw away belts, kilts, andother things. The coyote hoped to find some thingsthat would be good to trade.

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At the north end of Oraibi some girls were grindingcorn. As they ground their corn one of the girls sawthe coyote. She said, "Look! There i- the coyote. Letus find out where he is going."

Soon the coyote came by the house where thegirls were grinding corn. One of the girls hollered,"Coyote!" The coyote stopped. He looked around andsaw the girls. Then he said, "What is it?" The girlsaid. "Where are you going?" The coyote answered,

"I am looking for things to take on a trading trip tothe eastern pueblos." The girls said, "Bring us thingsyou trade, for. We will give you piki and other thingsto eat." The coyote answered, "All right. I will bringyou what I can."

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Then the coyote went to look for things in thetrash piles. After a while he found many things totake on the trip. He put them into a sack. Then hewent home.

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When the coyote got home he sorted the thingshe had found. He had brought home kilts, belts, legcoverings, and other clothing. Most of the things wereceremonial clothing. The coyote shook out all of theclothing. Then he washed and laid them out on a largerock near Coyote IC,Ige.

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Next day the coyote gathered them all up. He putthem into a sack. The coyote then started on histrading trip.

In a /Wiz-, while the coyote reached the northend of Oraibi. The girls saw him. "Be sure and bring ussome things!" they hollered. The coyote nodded hishead and went on.

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Not far from Oraibi the coyote came upon a trapthat someone had set. The trap was a box made outof several rocks. The rock on top was held up with astick. A fresh piece of rabbit meat was tied to thestick for bait.

Tie coyote stopped and looked,. at the trap. Hedecided to try to get the meat from th( trap. He thoughthow he would do it. "I will grip the meat with myteeth. Then I will jump away from: the trap," hethought.

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The coyote moved carefully. He reached aroundthe stick. He moved the meat around until he could gripit with his tJeth. He moved it past the stick to which

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it was tied. He hoped to jump fast so that the rockswould not fall on him when he pulled on the meat. Thenhe reached in the trap with his teeth. He gripped themeat. With all his might the coyote jumped away fromthe trap. The rocks fell as the coyote pulled on themeat. The rocks fell on his sack of trading things.

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The coyote got his rabbit meat but he lost allof the things he was going to trade. He could not goon his trading trip to the eastern pueblos. Perhapsthe coyote is again looking in trash piles for belts andkilts and other ceremonial clothing. Perhaps he will tryonce more to go on his trading trip. That is the endof this story.

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Long ago many people lived at Oraibi. West ofOraibi at Ismo'walpe, a coyote lived with his friends.The coyote's friends were a badger and a gopher. Nowand then they all lived together.

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One day the Village Crier announced something

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that the men and boys would clean out a spring nearOraibi. The spring had been covered over by sand.

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The coyote also heard the Village Cri,n- announcethat Kachinas would lead the people to the spring. Thegirls would prepare food and take the food to the springso that all the people there might enjoy a feast.

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Later that day the coyc!-e arrived at Ismo'walpeand waited for his friends to return from their foodgathering. By and by, the badger and the gopherarrived at Ismo'walpe.

The coyote spoke to his two friends. He said, "Thismorning as I was hunting near Oraibi, I heard the VillageCrier announce that the men and boys would clean outa spring near Oraibi. This spring has been covered overby sand. The Village Crier also announced that Kachinaswould lead the people to the spring."

"Now," the coyote continued, "the girls alwaysprepare a lot of food to take to the spring. I think weshould dig a tunnel to the spring from Ismo'walpe. Whenthe girls arrive with the food, we will take some of thefood and put it into the tunnel. Then we will bring thefood back to Isrno'walpe. We will have our own feast."

The badger and the gopher both answered, "Yes,that is the way it shall be. Now, let us begin diggingthe tunnel. We do not have much time."

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The badger began digging the tunnel. A short timelater, he began to tunnel in the wrong direction insteadof toward the spring.

He told the gopher, "You must do the digging.You always dig very straight. I will come behind youand make the tunnel larger. Our friend the coyote willtake out the dirt."

The coyote said, "Yes, that is the way it shall be.That is good. Now let us hurry."

The gopher began to dig. He was a good diggeT andvery fast, but the badger kept up with him all the way tothe spring. The coyote did very well in carrying outthe dirt to the surface.

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Once in a while the gopher would break onto thesurface to see where he was going and to see if theKachinas and the people had arrived at the spring.

The coyote told the gopher, "Try to break ontothe surface near a big rock near the spring. Thatis where the girls always leave the food."

By and by, the gopher reached the rock by thespring. He broke onto the surface. Right away he andthe badger made the hole bigger.

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The gopher came out of the tunnel first. He sawthe food that the girls had brought to the spring. Thebadger came up from the tunnel after the gopher. Healso saw the food. Then the coyote came up from thetunnel. They all took several baskets that were filledwith food and carried the baskets into the tunnel withthem.

They took the baskets of food through the tunnelback to Ismo'walpe. When they had finished taking thefood to Ismo'walpe, they rested for a while.

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At noon the coyote, the badger, and the gopherhad a feast. They ate and ate until they were very full.The food they ate was good. There was piki as well asseveral kinds of corn bread in the baskets.

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Meanwhile, the people at the spring stopped theirwork and got ready to eat. It was noon. The girls wentto pick up the food by the big rock to feed the people.

The girls found that someone had taken some ofthe food. Then they saw a hole in the ground near thebig rock. The girls told the men and boys about thehole. The men dug into the hole and found that it wasreally a tunnel. The men went a little way into thetunnel and then turned around and came back out again.

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The men could not find anybody in the tunnel, sothey did not catch anyone. The people ate what wasleft of the food.

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Badger answered, "That is good; that is the wayit shall be. I am ready to go."

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So early the next morning, the coyote and thebadger tied some blue corn bread together. The girlswho made the bread had wrapped it in corn husks. Sothe two Mends tied the husks together, then wrappedthe little bundles of bread around their waists. Thenthe coyote and the badger left Ismo'walpe to lookfor a good place to hunt.

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Later on they found just the right place to hunt.Then they dug a large hole in which they could stay.After they had dug the hole, they gathered bushes andsticks and put them at the entrance to their new huntinghome. They made a fireplace of some rocks. Finallythey built a fire. They were tired from building theirnew hunting home.

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Evening came; the coyote and the badger were athome in their camp. They settled down for the night. Alittle later, after the sun had gone down, they had avisitor.

The coyote and the badger could not see theirvisitor clearly when it first came in. They sat quietlyby the fire and watched.

The coyote and the badger could now see thevisitor clearly by the light of the fire. The visitor wasa man. The man was tall and handsome.

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As the coyote and the badger watched him, the manjumped and hit one of his ankles with one hand.

The coyote asked the badger, "Who is this maa?What is he telling us?" The badger answered, "I do notknow who he is or what he wants."

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The coyote said, "He is trying to tell us something."The man jumped and this time hit his shin.

Then the coyote said, "He is trying to tell us howmuch it will snow tomorrow. Let us watch him." Theman jumped again and this time hit his knees.

The coyote said, "This man is really a snow birdand now has told us by hitting his knees that the snowwill reach around his knees."

The coyote continued, "Yes, that should be deepenough. The rabbits won't run in deep snow and willjust sit by their rabbit holes. We should have an easytime catching the rabbits."

The visitor went out. As soon as he left, it began tosnow. The man represented snow and was a messengerfrom the Snow Spirit. The man was really a snow bird,and appeared as a man only when acting as a messengerfor the Snow Spirit.

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The coyote said, "Let us bring in our wood. It isgoing to snow very hard."

The coyote and the badger brought in their woodand settled down for the night. Meanwhile, the snowkept getting deeper and deeper outside.

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The snow was too deep for hunting, so the coyoteand the badger stayed in their camp until the snowsettled down to where they could go out and hunt.They were almost out of food.

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So the coyote said, "It is time for us to go outand hunt. You follow my tracks as I hunt the rabbits.Let us go."

The coyote and the badger left their camp and wentfor a little way to the west. They found many rabbits.Indeed, the rabbits were very easy to catch. Soon, theyhad caught five rabbits. The coyote said, "Let us gohome now. We have enough."

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One morning the coyote said to the badger, "Letus have a race with each other. The one who wins therace may eat the rest of the rabbit meat from yesterday'sdinner. We can go over to a place not far from hereand hold our race." The badger answered, "Yes, letus have a race. It is a good way to keep strong."

So, the coyote and the badger left their camp andlooked for a place to hold their race. Not long afterthey left the camp, they found a place that was a goodone to start a race.

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The coyote looked around and saw a large rock inthe distance. He said, "Let us circle that rick and comeback to the place where I am standing. i'he one whogets back here first shall be the winner. He may eatthe rest of the rabbit meat. Let us get ready to run."

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The coyote and the badger stood side by side.Then when the coyote shouted, "Now," they ran withall their might to the large rock in the distance. Thecoyote got to the rock first, circled it, and came backto where they had begun the race.

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He trotted over to the camp. As soon as he reachedthe camp, he brought out the rabbit meat and beganeating.

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By and by, the badger arrived at the camp. Heasked the coyote for a little piece of the rabbit meat.The coyote at first said no. Then after a while he gavethe badger some of the rabbit meat.

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Every morning the sparrow hawk would sit on theedge of the mesa. He would sit and look for flyinginsects or lizards to catch.

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One day as the sparrow hawk sat and looked outover the valley below hini, he saw something move. Itwas a lizard. The lizard would move a little way froma crack in a rock and then run back into it.4

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A little later the lizard came out of the crack inthe rock and climbed upon a small ledge near the rock.The lizard looked around him. Then it looked up atthe sparrow hawk. The lizard began to dance. He sangas he danced. He kept looking up at the sparrowhawk as he danced.

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The lizard sang this song. "Around my kidneysthere is a lot of fat. It is so good, so good. Ay, Ay."As soon as the lizard finished his dance he ran back tothe crack in the rock and jumped into it. The lizardcame out and danced several times.6

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The sparrov; hawk watched the lizard as he dancedand sang. The sparrow hawk got angry. "I will catchthat lizard. I will see if he is really so fat," he said.

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The sparrow hawk looked around. He found awhite rock. "I will fool the lizard," said the sparrowhawk. He put the white rock where he usually sat. Thesparrow hawk said, "The lizard will see this rock andthink that I am sitting up here."

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The sparrow hawk flew down to the valley below.He settled near the crack in the rock where the lizardlived. The sparrow hawk hid under a small ledge nearwhere the lizard would dance. Then he waited forthe lizard to come out.

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After a while the lizard stuck his head out ofthe crack in the rock. He looked up to see if the sparrowhawk was still sitting at the edge of the mesa. As thelizard expected, the sparrow hawk was still sitting there.The lizard said to himself, "Ha, ha! The sparrow hawkwill never catch me. I am to fast for him. I will singand dance and tease him again."

The lizard came out of the crack in the rockand began his dance. As he danced, the lizard wouldlook up at the white rock now and then thinking thatthe sparrow hawk was sitting up there.

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Meanwhile, the sparrow hawk watched the lizardfrom his hiding place. As soon as the lizard finishedhis dance he ran for the crack in the rock. The sparrowhawk flew swiftly from his hiding place and caughtand killed the lizard as it ran for the crack in the rock."Ah, ha! Poor lizard," said the sparrow hawk whenhe caught and killed the lizard.

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The sparrow hawk flew back up to the edge ofthe mesa clutching the lizard between his talons. Thesparrow hawk found that the lizard had no fat .anywhereat all. It was the skinniest lizard the sparrow hawk everkilled.

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The lizard ended his life in this way. Perhaps,it is said, the sparrow hawk is still living at Nenkovitoday.

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