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Updated: May 12, 2025
Tse-tse had taken me with his own hands from the lair, knowing very well what my mother would have done to him had she come back and found him there; and Tse-tse's father was afraid, if they took away the first fruits of his son's courage, the courage would go with it. The Council agreed with him. Kokomo was furious at having the management of his kiva taken out of his hands, and Tse-tse knew it.
He had hung up his buck at the camp and was cutting strips from it for his supper. "'Look well, Kabeyde, said my master; 'smell and remember. This man is my enemy. I did not like the smell in any case. The Queres smell of the earth in which they dig and house, but the Dine smelled of himself and the smoke of sagebrush. Tse-tse's hand was on the back of my neck.
But when I found myself neglected I went back to Willow-in-the-Wind who wove wreaths for my neck, which tickled my chin, and made Tse-tse furious. "The day that the names of those who would go on the Salt Trail were given out Tse-tse's was not among them was two or three before the feast of the corn-planting and the last of the winter rains.
Later, when even Tse-tse's father agreed that I was too old for the kiva, Tse-tse taught me to curl my tail under my legs and slink on my belly when I saw Kokomo. Then he would scold me for being afraid of the kind man, and the other boys would giggle, for they knew very well that Tse-tse had to beat me over the head with a firebrand to teach me that trick.
"'We have a treaty with the Dine, he said. 'Besides, I was out rehearsing with the Koshare last night toward Shut Canon; if there had been Dine I should have seen them. "It was then that I was aware of Tse-tse's hand creeping along my shoulders to hide the bristling. "'He is afraid, said Tse-tse to me in the cave; 'you saw it. Yet he is not afraid of the Dine.
So Tse-tse-yote spent the three nights following in a corner of the terrace with me curled up for warmth beside him. Tse-tse's father heard of it and carried the matter to Council.
When he was old enough to leave his mother and sleep in the kiva of his clan, he took me with him, where I have no doubt, we made a great deal of trouble. Nights when the moon called me, I would creep out of Tse-tse's arms to the top of the ladder. The kivas opened downward from a hole in the roof in memory of Shipapu.
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