Native American Legends
How the children of Pivánhonk'api obtained permission to catch Birds
A Hopi Legend
Halíksai! At Hû'kovi they were living, and at Pivánhonk'api
they were also living. At both places there were a great many children,
and they always went down to Mumúshva (a spring named after
a certain herb and grass that grows in the spring), where they were
setting bird traps. They were often at enmity with one another on
account of the birds.
One morning they again went to trap birds. They again became very
angry at one another on account of the trapping, and the Hû'kovi
children said to the children of Pivánhonk'api that they
should not trap birds there. But they said if they would give them
something they could trap birds there.
So the children from Pivánhonk'api ran back to the village
and got such things as kûtû'ki, píki, and different
other articles of food, and gave them to the children of Hû'kovi,
so that the latter carried home a great deal of food which they
had purchased for the permission given to the Pivánhonkapi
children to catch birds there, and after that the children from
both villages were always catching birds there, and maybe they are
catching birds there still.
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