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Oraibi with their prisoners, Youkioma and his men, and the children. When they arrived at Keams Canyon
the captain asked the agent to look the prisoners over and point out the men who had made trouble for him
before. On looking them over he picked out Chief Youkioma first. Next was Chief Tewahonganewa of
Shipaulovi and all his followers.
So the two chiefs had something like fifteen men picked out with them. Besides these, eleven men were
picked out to be sent to Carlysle School (1. Archie Quamala, 2. Glen Chestiwa, 3. Andrew Humiquoptiwa,
4. Joshua Humiyistiwa, 5. Washington Tala-umptiwa, 6. Louis Tiwanima, all from Shung-opovi; 7.
William Strong, 8. Albert Tawaventiwa, 9. Quoits-hoeoma, 10. Arthur Ponyaquoptiwa, 11. Tewanimptiwa,
from Hotevilla.)
The two chiefs, Youkioma and Tawahonganiwa, with their fifteen followers and the boys were taken on to
Fort Wingate. The rest of the men (about one hundred) were left at Keams Canyon.
From Fort Wingate these prisoners were sent to Florence penitentiary. The other eleven men, who were all
married, were sent to Carlysle School. Three of the boys, Archie, Andrew, and Louis, had left their wives at
Shung-opovi when they went to Oraibi. 53
When the soldiers went away, Chief Tewaquoptiwa thought that the captain had forgotten him, but when
the captain arrived at Fort Wingate he wrote to him and he had to go away, either to Riverside or Phoenix.
This was a month after the others had left.
About this time, Tewaquoptiwa had insulted some of the women who came back from Hotevilla and of
course Kiwanimptiwa could not stand for this, so he called together all his followers, men, women, and all,
about fifteen
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or so families and when he got them together, he asked them how long this had been going on, and they
said, ever since they had come back. They said that the chief had always said to them that if they wanted to
stay in that village they had to do as the Oraibi people asked them to, whether they wanted to or not. After
hearing all this from the women folk Kiwanimptiwa went and called Chief Tewaquoptiwa in and when he
did bring him in he said that the women had told him what he had been doing. Tewaquoptiwa said it was
not so, but the women stood right up and told him it was so and there was no use f or him to try to hide it.
Then, of course, after that there was an argument. Finally, the chief told them that they did not have to stay
there, but could go any place they wanted to--to Hotevilla or any place else.
They knew that after having left Hotevilla they could not go back there, so the next day, Kiwanimptiwa
went out to look for a site. First he went to a spring, Meumeushva, below Hukovi. Then he came back upon
the mesa and went to Bakabi. Finding that place with plenty of water and wood he decided to take his
people there, so when he came back he told his people they were to move the next day.
The next morning all their burros were packed up with their stuff. (This was almost the middle of October.)
When they got there, the Hotevilla people hearing of it, did not like it because after splitting away from
them they were coming back to a place so near them.
Of course, this being the fall, the weather was getting cold and the best they could do was to find a little
shelter along the edge of the cliff and a few of them were under the ledge. Of course in both places, Bakabi
and Hotevilla, the people were busy trying to put up houses of some kind. In Hotevilla the women had to
do all the work, for there were just a few old grandfathers left to help them. 54
Mr. Lemon, the agent, after hearing about this trouble again at Oraibi, came right out and sent
Tewaquoptiwa to Riverside. They just keep him there and he did a little work. After sending him to
Riverside School the agent went back to Hotevilla and picked out all the Shung-opovi families and sent
them back to their homes.
Kiwanimptiwa thought he should have help from the government, since he had shaken hands with the
captain and made friends with the white man, so he went to the agency to ask for help. When he got there
he told the agent he would like him to see if he could help him out and the agent asked him in what way.
The chief said he
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would like some lumber for doors and windows. Well, the agent thought it was rather wise of him to call on
him for help, so he ordered some ready-made doors and windows. But these windows and doors did not
come until the spring, about April. Of course, at both places, the people had a hard time during the cold
weather. They had built little shelter places of stone with what cedar beams they could get, and they got
through the winter pretty well and not many people died. The Hotevilla people had taken some of their
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