Headdresses waving, headdresses waving.
We all rejoice! We all rejoice!
Singing. dancing, the mountains trembling.
About half of these people came out and followed Elder Brother's leadership until they had killed all his enemies and captured young and old that did not resist.
Elder Brother's greatest enemies were the people living in the large pueblos, the ruins of which yet remain scattered about the Gila and Salt river valleys. He and his supporters approached one of the easternmost of these pueblos on the Gila, which is now known as Casa Grande, singing:
About the pueblo runs its frightened chieftain
In yellow garment with hand-print decoration.
They attacked and defeated the forces of Morning-Blue Siʼvany, and then moved about 18 miles northwestward to Santan, where they sang:
Their chief with magic power fears me.
In their house of adobe we see their chief.
The chief of this extensive pueblo was Kia-atak Siʼvany. His forces were defeated and his pueblo overrun by Elder Brother's warriors, who next moved to the villages about 4 miles west of Santan, where they sang:
Some will truly see;
Will see their house
Behind the okatilla stockade.
The chief of this place was called Tcuf Baowo Si’vany, and after he had been overcome the conquerors moved across the Gila toward the pueblo of Sweetwater, singing as they approached:
There is the land of many beads.
Some one comes forth.
He knows whet will befall him.
The leader, Ta’-a Si’vany, was easily defeated, whereon the victors moved upon the pueblo of Casa Blanca, singing:
it will be difficult,
To capture this pueblo
With its magic power.
They then attacked Tcu’tcûk Tâ’tai Siʼvany, who was the most powerful of all the chiefs who ventured to oppose them.
