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<v Speaker 1>Another Roberty Callahan's story of historic Indian trails told by the.

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<v Speaker 2>Old Trapper.

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<v Speaker 1>Well folks.

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<v Speaker 3>The Old Trappers story is about real Indians who play

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<v Speaker 3>and dance with rattlesnakes. The snake dance is held each

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<v Speaker 3>year in the desert foothills of Arizona.

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<v Speaker 1>The village.

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<v Speaker 3>Mud made houses are two and three stories high. The

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<v Speaker 3>buildings are over a thousand years old. On the days

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<v Speaker 3>of these dances, five to ten thousand Indians climb crudely

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<v Speaker 3>made ladders, creep over roofs, or peep out of odd

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<v Speaker 3>shaped windows to see that no white spectator takes a

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<v Speaker 3>picture of the ceremony. Well, we're going to guide you

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<v Speaker 3>now to the historic snake dance country in Arizona.

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<v Speaker 4>My oh, my, I never saw so many Indians. Where

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<v Speaker 4>in the world do they all come from?

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<v Speaker 1>Where they come from? Over thirty tribes man, see you

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<v Speaker 1>know them fellows who were there were in the red

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<v Speaker 1>beaded bends and blue breeches, blue shirts and supports their neighborhoods.

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<v Speaker 4>Oh, who are those in the brown buckskins? Fringed and

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<v Speaker 4>beat it.

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<v Speaker 2>Along the trouser scene whirl?

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<v Speaker 1>They are a patches way down in the southern part

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<v Speaker 1>of Arizona. They look kind of wild too, don't they?

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<v Speaker 4>I should say? So? Who are those in the white buckskins?

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<v Speaker 4>An orange scar?

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<v Speaker 5>Oh?

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<v Speaker 1>Then over there those are Zooni pottery makers.

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<v Speaker 4>What have they got on their heads?

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<v Speaker 1>Well, they have painted water jars on their heads. And nancy,

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<v Speaker 1>you know, just back of them, those funny looking fellas

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<v Speaker 1>or Karawas Oklahoma. They sure do like fancy feathers, bells

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<v Speaker 1>and color.

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<v Speaker 4>Why well, there must be two hundred eagle feathers in

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<v Speaker 4>their headgear.

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<v Speaker 6>Yep.

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<v Speaker 1>And they're the best dancers of the Karwah nation.

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<v Speaker 6>You know.

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<v Speaker 1>I want to tell you none of the Indians wear

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<v Speaker 1>the same kind of costumes. Some of them look alike,

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<v Speaker 1>but all Indian costumes are quite different.

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<v Speaker 2>Who's not what woy?

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<v Speaker 1>That's a sunrise called the thunderbird. It's a call for

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<v Speaker 1>the envelope gods to here. Here they come?

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<v Speaker 4>Now, Well I never thought this funny costumes?

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<v Speaker 1>Yes, their head jerry is made out of corn stalks

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<v Speaker 1>and coonskin. The brown skirt they wear is a painted gunnyshack.

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<v Speaker 1>And you see each man is holding a good rattler.

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<v Speaker 4>But what are they shake them? From?

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<v Speaker 1>Where they are native hoopy boxes or what they call

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<v Speaker 1>the hopie box music hount as the inlack gods take.

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<v Speaker 1>Just stand here the keisha the dancers will appear.

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<v Speaker 2>What's the why?

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<v Speaker 1>That's what they keep the snakes in.

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<v Speaker 4>Well, how did the snake dancers dress?

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<v Speaker 1>Well, Nancer, they paint their bodies. They're brown black. They

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<v Speaker 1>put white spots on the shoulder, arms, and chest, and

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<v Speaker 1>they hang a coon tail to the waistbands.

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<v Speaker 4>Do they wear any clothing at all?

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<v Speaker 6>Nope?

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<v Speaker 1>New did a new born jump? Look here the snake

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<v Speaker 1>dancers come down.

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<v Speaker 4>Oh big song insteads wrapping a snake around his neck.

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<v Speaker 6>That's terrible.

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<v Speaker 4>Who would buy him?

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<v Speaker 6>Well?

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<v Speaker 1>Maybe so, maybe not. But that ain't nothing, Nancy. You

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<v Speaker 1>know some of them during ins out here in Arizona

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<v Speaker 1>will be holding a snake between their teeth pretty soon.

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<v Speaker 6>You see.

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<v Speaker 1>Indians are good to any kind of a snake. A

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<v Speaker 1>matter of fact, a snake won't bother nobody if the

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<v Speaker 1>people don't bother them. Don't do that, Nancy. Don't ever

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<v Speaker 1>use a kodak out here. Oh no, don't ever do that.

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<v Speaker 4>You know.

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<v Speaker 1>Any person who takes this picture here will have the

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<v Speaker 1>kodak torn to pieces, and sometimes the fella is thrown

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<v Speaker 1>into a dungeon and kept there without food the water

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<v Speaker 1>for a whole week.

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<v Speaker 4>Oh oh, I'm so sorry.

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<v Speaker 1>Don't ever try that again. Nsay, keep your Kodak at home.

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<v Speaker 1>It's a good thing they didn't see you do that.

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<v Speaker 4>All right, Uncle Luke, I won't do it anymore.

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<v Speaker 1>Look the dancers on.

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<v Speaker 6>Look, what do you say, Nancy, I heard you?

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<v Speaker 4>How long do they dance?

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<v Speaker 1>Or they dance until they feel all evil spirits are gone?

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<v Speaker 6>You know?

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<v Speaker 1>Then four women out there from the crowd come in

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<v Speaker 1>a little later, and they pour a corn meal on

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<v Speaker 1>the ground to form a cloud effect on which all

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<v Speaker 1>the snakes are dumped into one big pie. Then four

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<v Speaker 1>leading dancers will punge their hands into their wriggling death

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<v Speaker 1>dealing snakes, and they will wrapped two or three around

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<v Speaker 1>their neck and two or three around each arm. And

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<v Speaker 1>then they dash from the plaza where they go. Well,

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<v Speaker 1>one man will go north, another will go west, and

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<v Speaker 1>one will go south, and still another will go eat

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<v Speaker 1>you know, this is tradition among the Hope Indians. They

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<v Speaker 1>go way out into the canyon or sandy war somewhere,

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<v Speaker 1>and here they turn the snakes loose, and then they

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<v Speaker 1>offer prayer, and then they come back to the village, believing,

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<v Speaker 1>of course, that the cows will form and rain will come,

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<v Speaker 1>and as a matter of fact, all the hope Indians

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<v Speaker 1>will have peace and plenty for another year.

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<v Speaker 3>Round and round the dancer's golf, holding a snake by

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<v Speaker 3>the tail, neck, head, or body. One big fellow has

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<v Speaker 3>dropped his snake its started crawling toward the audience.

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<v Speaker 1>A white woman has faded.

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<v Speaker 3>One young Indian is finding pleasure and wrapping a hissing,

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<v Speaker 3>wriggling reptile around his neck. Another has wrapped his body

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<v Speaker 3>with boor snakes and a red tongue is kissing a

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<v Speaker 3>song of death. A few inches from the dancer's.

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<v Speaker 5>Face, who's.

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<v Speaker 3>One dancer full of fully eighty years old, is swinging

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<v Speaker 3>a huge six foot snake over his head. Now he

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<v Speaker 3>is turning to the audience, and he's holding the dog

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<v Speaker 3>on thing in his teeth. A few feet from where

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<v Speaker 3>I stand, a little boy on only seven years of age,

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<v Speaker 3>the only surviving member of his tribe, is carrying a

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<v Speaker 3>rattlesnake larger than his own arm, and he's handling it

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<v Speaker 3>like a Christmas toy. I've never seen anything like this

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<v Speaker 3>in my life.

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<v Speaker 4>What is the real reason for the dance? Ouklouk?

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<v Speaker 1>Well, the snake dance Nancy is a deep and solemn

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<v Speaker 1>perferen and it is given every year out here in

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<v Speaker 1>Arizona in appreciation for the gathering crop. According to history,

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<v Speaker 1>nine times out of ten, their faith in the Indian

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<v Speaker 1>God is fulfilled. Listen, it is the end.

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<v Speaker 3>Of a perfect day in Hobi Land, Arizona.

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<v Speaker 1>Oh your friends, Uh, that's the kind of dances that

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<v Speaker 1>do out here in Arizona every year. I hope you

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<v Speaker 1>end the story, and I hope you will you tune

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<v Speaker 1>in when we give another story. This is old trapper

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<v Speaker 1>sing farewell, just as the Indian would do. Yo Ho

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<v Speaker 1>Yo Ho

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<v Speaker 6>Sh