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"But if there are no Moshome about, whence could there come danger to us?" "From there;" and Hayoue pointed to distant cliffs where some of the cave-dwellings of Shyuamo were visible at the diminutive openings in the rock. "Why from there?" "From Shyuamo hanutsh." "What can Shyuamo want to do harm for?" Hayoue grew really impatient. "You think of nothing else but your girl," he grumbled.
Of all the less numerous groups, Tzitz hanutsh was almost the only one who took the side of Tanyi under all circumstances, and this was due exclusively to the fact that the marriage of Zashue with Say Koitza bound the two clans together.
In order to mislead his comrades, in case they should be on the lookout, he went higher up along the cliffs till he reached the caves of Tzina hanutsh. Here he looked back. The three boys were singing lustily the same monotonous rhyme at the same place where he had left them.
Below the house of Yakka hanutsh there stood a group of men, their faces turned toward the brink of the mesa. The nashtio of the Water clan rose, and pointed at the group. "There stand Hayoue, the Shikama Chayan, the three Yaya, the Hotshanyi, Shaykatze, and Uishtyaka; and see, the Hishtanyi Chayan is down on the Tyuonyi already, and goes up to them.
The dim eyes of the former began to gleam; his shrivelled features assumed a hideous, wolfish expression as he spoke in a voice trembling yet clear, "It is well. Our brethren deserve what they demand. If the crops ripen, my children from Shyuamo are those who pray and fast most of all. My hanutsh alone counts more Koshare than all the others together.
He rose and turned toward Tyope. "Your woman belongs to our hanutsh, and I know that it is not you who feed her; and so you are, all of you. You live from other people's crops!" Tyope looked up, and his eyes flashed; but in a quiet tone he answered, "Your woman is Shyuamo; you know best how it is." The other continued with growing passion,
His partner is a buxom lass from the Bear clan, Kohayo hanutsh, a strong, thick-waisted creature, not so good-looking for a girl as he is for a man, yet of such proportion and figure as strike the Indian fancy. They pay each other little attention. During the pauses each one follows his own bent, and when the time calls they meet again.
"How did the shuatyam kill our father?" His voice trembled as he uttered these words. "With arrows." "Have you brought them along?" "Yes." "How many?" "One." "Where is the corpse?" "At the house of Tanyi hanutsh." The shaman turned around. "Tyame," he called to the delegate of the Eagle clan, "do your duty. And you, too, Tapop."
The tapop broke the silence by turning officially to the principal shaman and asking him, "Sa umo yaya, what do you hold concerning the demand of our children from Shyuamo?" The Chayan raised his face, his eyes sparkled. He gave his reply in a positive tone, "I hold it is well, provided Tzitz hanutsh is satisfied."
"But you are right also, nashtio yaya, when you say that it is Tzitz hanutsh who shall decide whether or not it wishes to part with some of its fields for the benefit of the Turquoise people." Both Tyope and the Koshare Naua grew very serious at these words. "We cannot compel the Water people to give up any of their soil." "No," the Shikama Chayan audibly whispered.
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