A Sacred People by Leo K. Killsback

Author:Leo K. Killsback [Killsback, Leo K.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781682830352
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Publisher: Texas Tech University Press
Published: 2019-10-25T00:00:00+00:00

Part III: Nótåxeo'o: The Warriors

One day they heard a great rumbling sound beyond a hill near the camp; and as they looked, they saw an animal come over the hill. As it drew nearer, it was a different animal from what they had thought at first; and then it changed to another animal; and at last it was Motsé'eóeve, playing the wheel-game, and running close to the camp, as if to tempt them to pursue him. The people were all afraid, and said to one another, “Do not trouble him.” When he saw that they did not try to take him, he went back the way he had come, and disappeared over the hill; and the rumbling grew fainter as he moved away. They think that he came, intending to have destroyed the people if they had tried to take him.

—Unknown1

During his absence there had been a famine in the land. The buffalo had gone into hiding, for they were angry that the people did not know how to live and were behaving badly. When Sweet Medicine arrived at the village, he found a group of tired and listless children, their ribs sticking out, who were playing with little buffalo figures they had made out of mud. Sweet Medicine immediately changed the figures into large chunks of juicy buffalo meat and fat. “Now there’s enough for you to eat,” he told the young ones, “with plenty left over for your parents and grandparents.”

—Unknown2

Listen to me carefully; the gods already told me that I would be the one who would reform you in a better way of living, and teach you to govern your people in a good way. You shall have protection—you have no protection the way you are living now. You now live in a bad way. You kill one another. You do things which are bad. The gods do not take pity on you, because you are murderers; that is why you are poor, and hungry, and you starve. All these things shall be no more.

—Motsé'eóeve3c

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