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Updated: July 2, 2025
"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.
"Who is the makatza, and to which hanutsh does she belong?" "She belongs to your people." "To Tyame? Who is her mother, and what is the name of the girl?" "She is called Mitsha Koitza; Tyope Tihua is her father, and her mother you know too. Is all that good also?" The maseua pressed his lips together firmly, energetically, lowered his eyelids, and gazed before him in silence.
Okoya's handsome figure attracted her attention, and she stepped nearer, eyeing him closely. "Where do you belong?" she inquired in a quieter tone. "I am Tanyi." "Who is your father?" "Zashue Tihua." The woman smiled; she moved still nearer to the young man and continued, "I know your father well. He is one of us, a Koshare."
At the time of which we are speaking, the chief civil officer of the tribe at the Rito, its tapop, or as he is now called, governor, was an Indian whose name was Hoshkanyi Tihua. Hoshkanyi Tihua was a man of small stature; his head was nearly round, or rather pear-shaped, for the lower jaw appeared to be broader than the forehead.
As the pale light of the rising moon fell on it, it was plainly distinguishable as a circular war-sandal! "Did you find that?" asked the shaman. "Yes, I found it. I and Hayash Tihua together." "Where?" "On the kauash, on the trail that leads to the north." "Who killed sa nashtio?" the chayan further inquired.
So Hoshkanyi Tihua rose suddenly to the rank of one of the chief dignitaries of his commonwealth. The choice thus made by the religious heads of the Queres did not satisfy everybody, but everybody was convinced that Those Above had spoken through the mediums to whose care the relations between mankind and the higher powers were specially committed.
Say Koitza, as this wretched woman was called, was the only child of him with whom she had just had this dismal interview. His name was Topanashka Tihua, and he was maseua, or head-war-chief, of the tribe. In times of peace the maseua is subordinate to the tapop, or civil governor, and as often as the latter communicates to him any decision of the tribal council he is bound to execute it.
The words were spoken in a tone sufficiently loud to enable any one acquainted with the inhabitants of the Tyuonyi to recognize in the first speaker Tyame Tihua, the delegate or councilman from the Eagle clan, in the other, our old friend Topanashka. After exchanging these few words both continued their walk in silence.
Heat and exercise have partially effaced the paint, so that the features of Tyope Tihua, and of Zashue, the husband of Say, can be easily recognized. "I tell you, satyumishe," asserts the latter, "you are mistaken, or words have been spoken to you that are not true. This wife of mine is good. She has nothing to do with evil, nor has she tampered with it.
For the chief penitents, who selected officially the new incumbent, while they were in no manner accessible to outside influence, might consider the general tendency of affairs, and for the same reasons that they chose Hoshkanyi Tihua for tapop might determine upon appointing some member of Tanyi or Tyame as maseua.
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