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Updated: June 23, 2025
This arrangement corresponded closely to the degree of importance of the various officers, or rather to their assumed proximity to the higher powers under whose protection the tribe believed itself to be placed. The tapop, as chairman of the meeting, occupied the middle, together with the principal religious functionaries, the yaya, or mothers of the tribe.
He was, moreover, utterly unconscious of the fact that he was nothing but a tool which both Tyope and the Naua wielded to further their perfidious designs. The tapop therefore called upon the delegate of the Sun clan to speak. He dwelt not far from the Turquoise people, and he expressed himself strongly in their favour.
"I do not know whether or not I ought to call the council together." "Were you asked to do it?" "Yes." "Then you must do it; it is your duty," replied the Hotshanyi. He spoke imperatively, and with remarkable dignity of manner. Thus the first point was settled. And the tapop with growing uneasiness proceeded to his next.
"Have you looked for more?" emphasized the medicine-man. The other hung his head as if he felt the reproach. "No," he said in a low tone. "Why not?" "Because we were afraid that other Tehuas might be around." "How do you know that the people from the north have killed our nashtio?" "Because the Moshome Dinne never wear such." He pointed to the sandal, which he had handed to the tapop.
"Do you believe," he hissed in turn, "that if I were to go down to the brook and tell the tapop what you have urged me and my people to do against your kin that he would not reward me?" Tyope Tihua became very quiet; his features lost the threatening tension which they had displayed, his eyes opened, and he said in a softer tone, "That is just what I want you to do. But I want this from you alone.
For this reason did I speak to our father the tapop that he should call in the uuityam, in order that all might hear and that nobody could say afterward, 'Shyuamo hanutsh has taken from Tzitz hanutsh what belonged to the Water people, and behold we knew nothing about it! Shyuamo hanutsh" he raised his voice and glanced around with flashing eyes "has many people; Shyuamo is strong!
The tapop, prompted by a wink of the Hishtanyi Chayan, went into the cave and prepared the council-fire. It burned well, but nobody came. Distant thunder rolled through the clouds; lightning flashed from them in fiery red tongues. The wind continued to blow in gusts, but at long intervals only. Between gust and gust it grew dismally, anxiously, still.
Topanashka himself was a member of the Eagle clan, and through him the Water clan, feeble in numbers, enjoyed the support not only of Tanyi but also of Tyame hanutsh. In proposing for the vacant position of tapop a member of the Turquoise people, the chief penitents had in a measure acted discreetly.
After the Cuirana Naua had spoken, however, many raised their faces, changed their positions; some looked at the tapop with an air of expectancy, others glanced around, still others seemed to denote by their demeanour that they were anxious and eager to speak. Tyope and Topanashka, alone, did not change their attitudes.
Four days hence we shall know what the Shiuana think, and on the night following" he turned to the tapop "we will tell you here what to do. In the meantime," he uttered these words like a solemn warning, "hush! let none of you exchange one word on what we have heard or seen to-night.
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