When they left that region
they moved slowly westward to a place called T?wii (Santo Domingo),
where some of them are said to still reside. The next halt was at
Kaiw?ika (Laguna) where it is said some families still remain, and they
staid also a short time at A?ikoka (Acoma); but none of them remained at
that place. From the latter place they went to Si?ki (Zu?i), where they
remained a long time and left a number of their people there, who are
now called Aiy?hokwi by the Zu?i. They finally reached Tusayan by way of
Awatubi. They had been preceded from the same part of New Mexico by the
Honan nyumu (the Badger people), whom they found living at the
last-named village. The Magpie, the Pute K?hu (Boomerang-shaped hunting
stick), and the Field-mouse families of the Asa remained and built
beside the Badger, but the rest of its groups continued across to the
Walpi Mesa. They were not at first permitted to come up to Walpi, which
then occupied its present site, but were allotted a place to build at
Coyote Water, a small spring on the east side of the mesa, just under
the gap. They had not lived there very long, however, when for some
valuable services in defeating at one time a raid of the Ute (who used
to be called the Tcingaw?ptuh) and of the Navajo at another, they were
given for planting grounds all the space on the mesa summit from the gap
to where Sichumovi now stands, and the same width, extending across the
valley to the east. On the mesa summit they built the early portion of
the house mass on the north side of the village, now known as Hano.
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