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them out. Right at this time they were having a Snake Dance and Youkioma insisted he would like to be
moved away on this day, but Tewaquoptiwa refused to do anything with him on that day because of the
ceremony, for he did not want to trouble this religious party. So he set the day for the fourth day after the
dance. From the many arguments that all the people had had in the streets both sides had the idea that there
would be a fight, so they tried to collect as many weapons as possible-bows and arrows and guns, and to
get them ready. Come to find out, Tewaquoptiwa did not have enough men and the hostiles were about
three or four times as many as his people. So he called on the Moenkopi 45 people for help and all the other
villages of Second Mesa.
The night before the fight both parties stayed up all night for their luck, because this was rather a
ceremony. They smoked all night long. When morning came Tewaquoptiwa went to the house where the
hostile party was and asked them if they were ready for the day and were willing to put up a fight against
his people. He also asked them if any of them would be ready to surrender and follow him. But none would
surrender, because of the good sayings of Youkioma and how he was going to take them to a prosperous
land.
During these hours of the morning, the men on both sides had rather a creepy feeling about what was going
to be the outcome, and the men out in the streets gathered here and there listening to the many arguments.
The Oraibi chief made his request four times of the hostile party. Each time he asked them if they would be
willing to take the step and leave of their own free will, and that if they would, they would not be bothered
or hunted. But each time Youkioma said he would have to be forced to move out. Come to find out,
Tewaquoptiwa was a little afraid and he did not have nerve enough to go in and put Youkioma out of the
house. So one of the men on the Chief's side was rather tired of all this foolishness that they were going
through, so he called the chief, Tewaquoptiwa, a coward and jumped into the house. When he did that the
rest of the men followed. When they got in there they got hold of Youkioma and just slung him out of the
door. When he landed outside another party picked him up. By this time the men in the street had formed a
double line and the men in the house just kept throwing men out and passing them down the line. It seemed
as though they were handed out and as if they were unloading sacks of flour or watermelons and passing
them on
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down the line. Every now and then someone would put up a fight but he was pretty well beaten. Now this
was kept up until they had emptied the house. When Tewaquoptiwa's men were through they went through
the village and got all the hostile women out and drove them to the outside of the village.
On that morning the missionaries had come up and they made the people on both sides give up their
weapons and they took them all away. They said it would not be fair for them to have weapons, but they
could fight all they wanted, hand to hand.
They passed all the hostiles out of the village and it was something awful on both sides--women and
children crying. It might be sisters, it might be brothers, mothers and daughters that were separated. Just
about this time one old man, a hostile, came up from his field. The day before he had baked some corn in
his ground oven and he had eight burros loaded with sacks of corn, each sack holding about 100 to 150
pounds. When he came to his house no one was at home. Then someone came and drove him out with his
burros and when he got out there the hostile people ripped up the sacks and helped themselves. Again Chief
Tewaquoptiwa went out and asked them if they were ready to move on. Youkioma said he would not move
unless Tewaquoptiwa could push him across the line which he had drawn on the flat rock of the mesa
top. 46 So here they had to put up another fight again, to put Youkioma across the line. When the chief was
ready to go against them, the hostile men gathered about Youkioma, intending to hold him so that the other
side could not move him across the line. Then the fight began, one party pushing toward the village and
another pushing away from the village. Tewaquoptiwa had about one hundred men and Youkioma about
two hundred. There they pushed back and forth for two hours and a half. When they got out of breath they
stopped and then began again. Every once in awhile the pressure would be so great that old Youkioma
would rise up in the air. Being quite a bunch of men they were hard to move.
One of the men from Shung-opovi, a friendly who was looking on from a housetop, could not stand it, he
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