WEBVTT 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:01.050 align:middle line:90% 00:00:01.050 --> 00:00:07.440 align:middle line:84% These are some sections out of A Good Journey. 00:00:07.440 --> 00:00:13.260 align:middle line:84% I want to tell you some coyote stories. 00:00:13.260 --> 00:00:14.355 align:middle line:90% Telling about coyote. 00:00:14.355 --> 00:00:20.460 align:middle line:90% 00:00:20.460 --> 00:00:25.935 align:middle line:84% My father was saying that he went into the kiva-- 00:00:25.935 --> 00:00:29.508 align:middle line:90% 00:00:29.508 --> 00:00:31.050 align:middle line:84% one of the kiva, I guess, a big kiva, 00:00:31.050 --> 00:00:36.930 align:middle line:84% the Malheur Utes because that's one of his duties 00:00:36.930 --> 00:00:41.730 align:middle line:84% as an antelope clan elder is to watch over those things. 00:00:41.730 --> 00:00:44.130 align:middle line:90% And he was telling-- 00:00:44.130 --> 00:00:46.410 align:middle line:84% I don't know how it started or who was telling it, 00:00:46.410 --> 00:00:48.450 align:middle line:90% but this is the story. 00:00:48.450 --> 00:00:54.720 align:middle line:84% One time the Kawaikamehtitra, the Lagunas 00:00:54.720 --> 00:00:59.010 align:middle line:90% were having a rabbit hunt. 00:00:59.010 --> 00:01:03.060 align:middle line:84% Tchaiyawahni ih, it means hunting and killing each other. 00:01:03.060 --> 00:01:08.240 align:middle line:84% Among them was an Aak'um'e, an Acoma, an in-law to the Lagunas, 00:01:08.240 --> 00:01:09.930 align:middle line:90% Kawaikamehtitra. 00:01:09.930 --> 00:01:12.630 align:middle line:84% At the beginning of the hunt, the field chief, 00:01:12.630 --> 00:01:15.600 align:middle line:84% [SPEAKING ACOMA] gives instructions, and bids 00:01:15.600 --> 00:01:18.030 align:middle line:84% the people to pay heed to the rules, 00:01:18.030 --> 00:01:21.030 align:middle line:84% and to be careful not to harm each other. 00:01:21.030 --> 00:01:25.200 align:middle line:84% And he called to the people, now you can go and hunt, 00:01:25.200 --> 00:01:27.600 align:middle line:84% but you must be especially careful 00:01:27.600 --> 00:01:31.500 align:middle line:84% that you don't kill coyote because he is one of the people. 00:01:31.500 --> 00:01:34.830 align:middle line:84% And some of you are clan relatives of his. 00:01:34.830 --> 00:01:37.710 align:middle line:84% There were some coyote clan people in the hunt, 00:01:37.710 --> 00:01:38.850 align:middle line:90% [SPEAKING ACOMA]. 00:01:38.850 --> 00:01:43.620 align:middle line:84% And he repeated, you can kill anything, but you cannot kill-- 00:01:43.620 --> 00:01:46.740 align:middle line:90% but don't kill coyote. 00:01:46.740 --> 00:01:50.130 align:middle line:84% And so the people, the Lagunas and the one Acoma 00:01:50.130 --> 00:01:51.540 align:middle line:90% set out to hunt. 00:01:51.540 --> 00:01:55.500 align:middle line:84% They went out like we do, you know, encircling them, finding 00:01:55.500 --> 00:01:57.000 align:middle line:90% and killing the rabbits. 00:01:57.000 --> 00:01:59.850 align:middle line:84% Until at one point, suddenly, coyote 00:01:59.850 --> 00:02:02.400 align:middle line:84% was routed out from under a rock ledge 00:02:02.400 --> 00:02:04.980 align:middle line:84% and he ran in the direction of the Acoma, 00:02:04.980 --> 00:02:08.100 align:middle line:90% and the Acoma killed him. 00:02:08.100 --> 00:02:12.550 align:middle line:84% Now one of the Coyote clan relatives saw it, and he called, 00:02:12.550 --> 00:02:14.850 align:middle line:90% [SPEAKING ACOMA]. 00:02:14.850 --> 00:02:17.250 align:middle line:90% Coyote people, coyote people. 00:02:17.250 --> 00:02:19.530 align:middle line:90% Our relative has been killed. 00:02:19.530 --> 00:02:21.900 align:middle line:90% Come here, come here. 00:02:21.900 --> 00:02:26.370 align:middle line:84% Our poor beloved relative has been killed by this Acoma. 00:02:26.370 --> 00:02:30.300 align:middle line:84% And the Coyote people came and they mourned their relative 00:02:30.300 --> 00:02:31.980 align:middle line:90% who was laid out at their feet. 00:02:31.980 --> 00:02:35.025 align:middle line:84% And they looked at the Acoma and they cried, angrily, 00:02:35.025 --> 00:02:42.660 align:middle line:84% [SPEAKING ACOMA] meaning, you confounded, dirty Acoma, 00:02:42.660 --> 00:02:48.060 align:middle line:84% and began to chase him westwards towards Acoma. 00:02:48.060 --> 00:02:50.880 align:middle line:84% But when the people when the coyote people were chasing 00:02:50.880 --> 00:02:55.260 align:middle line:84% and hollering and cussing at the Acoma, coyote suddenly jumped up 00:02:55.260 --> 00:02:57.390 align:middle line:90% and he ran away. 00:02:57.390 --> 00:03:00.480 align:middle line:84% And the Coyote people stopped chasing and cussing the Acoma 00:03:00.480 --> 00:03:04.680 align:middle line:84% and said that he could come back to join the Lagunas. 00:03:04.680 --> 00:03:06.450 align:middle line:84% I don't know if the story is true 00:03:06.450 --> 00:03:11.670 align:middle line:84% or not, but that's the story I heard my father said. 00:03:11.670 --> 00:03:15.060 align:middle line:84% As tribal peoples, we tell stories about each other. 00:03:15.060 --> 00:03:16.920 align:middle line:84% That's probably a Laguna version that 00:03:16.920 --> 00:03:27.380 align:middle line:84% is told about the one Laguna and the others, all Acomas.