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Show Story Telling 85 he took them over to his people and they won the battle as they now had plenty of ammunition. The Indians were very grateful to the crazy little boy as he had saved the tribesmen from being all killed. He saved his people, the crazy little boy who wasn't liked by his people. U' ta tha's Journey An Indian family moved into the hills. There was a father, mother, and the two sons. The oldest son was married to a very beautiful Indian girl. Soon after they moved into the hills, one son decided to go hunting. The eldest son decided he would not take the younger brother, so the younger brother started to cry. The older brother felt sorry for him and let him go along with him. They had not gone fg£ when they killed their first deer. They began to dress it by a large oak tree. When they returned to their camp, they found their mother and father had been tortured and killed and the wife of the eldest son had been taken captive. The boys went to the main camp area and told their people what had happened to their mother, father, and wife of the eldest brother. They stayed with the tribe for a while, but soon the eldest brother grew lonesome for his wife and said that he was going to look for her. In preparation for the journey, he jerked some deer meat and filled his water containers, and the women of the tribe made some bread for him to take along. His name was U' ta tha. He traveled a long ways, about three or four days, and then he met an old Indian woman (believed to be Cheyenne) and a young girl who were picking plums. They told him they knew where a young Indian girl was tied in their camp. This young girl didn't belong to their tribe. The young Indian girl was forced to go to the dances each night to entertain the young men of the tribe. When the Indian boy, U' ta tha, had gotten all the information he needed he killed the old woman. He tied her companion to the plum trees. When he got to the Cheyenne camp he met a friend of his and had dinner with him. That night when they had their dance, U' ta tha covered his face, as the Taos people do today, so that his wife would not recognize him. He saw that the young girl was his wife and when she saw him, she gave a startled look. The Cheyenne boy told U' ta tha that the dancing Indian girl acted as if she knew him, as she revealed this by the way she danced. After dinner the young Indian girl was taken back to the teepee and tied. An old woman was left to guard her. Later that night, U' ta tha |
