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Story by Penny Raife Durant
(Wait until opening music has stopped)
Aki (AH-kee) watched as the men checked their leather
pouches and stone knives.
His father pulled his fingers
over the willow arrow shafts as if to straighten them once
again.
Then the men climbed down the Mountain and headed
east and north, toward the flowing river.
Aki's grandfather sat next to a large VOlcanic rock.
With a sharp stone, he pecked at the rock's surface.
didn't know what his grandfather was writing.
the story of the hunt.
Aki
It might be
It might be a map to show where they
found water last suaaer when the rains had not yet come.
Grandfather didn't mind missing the hunt as Aki did.
Of
course, being the recorder for the People was a very
important job, one only the oldest and wisest of their clan
was allowed to do.
His mother and grandmother knelt on the ground and began
grinding corn with their metates.
the sun sets,· Aki told his mother.
-I will be back before
Tben he slipped his bow
and quiver over his shoulder, leaving the Mountain and
following the stream west.
Perhaps he would find a deer of
his OVD.
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(Begin reading 5 seconds after music begins):
As Aki walked, he left no footprints.
Be had learned to
walk gently on Mother Earth, disturbing nothing.
as he walked.
Birds twittered and flew away.
He listened
Grasshoppers
sawed their autumn song.
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He scanned the dirt for tracks.
Aki found the saall
scaapering scrapes of a kangaroo rat and the smooth
slithering of a snake.
But no deer.
As Aki walked, the slope became steeper.
with many black rocks hugged the horizon.
A tall bluff
Aki heard the
rattled warning of a snake.
He stood perfectly still, barely breathing, moving only
his eyes in the direction of the sound.
The rattling stopped.
Still Aki stood, waiting for the snake to move on.
had no quarrel.
They
At last he heard a soft slithering in the
dry grass and whispered softly to the snake, wishing him
good hunting, too.
Then he walked on.
Around a juniper,
deer tracks dented the soft mud of the strea.bed.
From the
depth and size of the hoofprints, he knew it was a buck.
He
also knew it had passed here not long ago.
Aki followed the tracks behind a tower of sandstone and
up a steep path.
The deer had run to the top of the bluff.
The boy ran silently, and at last climbed over the edge.
Ahead of him, alone and chewing the golden flowers of a
rabbit bush, stood the buck.
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Aki stared into the deep brown eyes.
the deer for his life.
Silently, he thanked
A buck of this size would feed his
people well for more than two weeks.
With movements as slow as growing, Aki slipped an arrow
from his leather quiver and fitted it into his bow.
He kept
his eyes locked onto the buck.
Then something pulled his attention away.
He turned only
his eyes to the west, across the vast flat lands. Dust
swirled upward. Only raiders caae from the west.
Aki looked back at the deer. If he shot such an animal,
he would be allowed to hunt with the men. ~I.I""""".
But if he
didn't hurry and warn the others, the raiders might take all
the women and children. There would be no one left when the
men came back.
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Aki re1axed the bow.
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-Next time we meet, I wi11 not 1et
The buck jumped from the sudden sound and bounded
out of sight.
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Aki sped down the b1uff.
to cook the corn mea1.
rose.
His mother wou1d 1ight a fire
He had to reach her before the smoke
Aki ran soft1y against Mother Earth.
He dared not
1eave tracks for the raiders to f0110w.
-Grandfather!- he cried.
-Mother!
Raiders are coming.
I saw their dust.­
-Where are they, Aki?- Grandfather asked.
chi1dren gathered around him.
The women and
Aki saw fear in his mother's
eyes.
-They are west of the b1uff, 1ess than a day.­
-The men have gone hunting, and we don't know where to
find them,- Grandfather said.
-I cou1d f0110w their tracks,- Aki offered.
-I wi11 run
after them.­
-No,- Grandfather said.
"They have gone far a1ready and
they 1eave no tracks.­
Aki's heart pounded and his breath came faster.
100ked around at the Peop1e.
He
On1y he and his grandfather
had ever hand1ed a bow.
-We must hide,- he said.
-There is no p1ace to hide on the Mountain,· said
Grandfather.
Aki 100ked across the va11ey, past the river to the
cottonwoods.
-The growth a10ng the river wi11 hide us,- he
said.
-Gather food,- Grandfather t01d the women.
-Leave
nothing to show we have been here recent1y.Tbe women ran and did as they were t01d, gathering b1ack
and grey pots fi11ed with corn, squash, and beans.
Aki stashed 1arge pots and grinding stones in a sma11
cave hidden in a c1eft of rock.
Everyone was ready.
100ked as if the Peop1e had abandoned their homes.
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In tbe .orning, one of tbe raiders sp1asbed into tbe
river, on1y a stone's throw fro. tbe Peop1e.
tbe 0001 water and 100ked around.
Be drank fro.
Aki croucbed bebind a
busb, b01ding bis breatb unti1 bis cbest throbbed.
The
raider see.ed to 100k direct1y at bi., tben fi11ed a buffa10
b1adder witb water and tied it to tbe strap around bis
midd1e.
Be started toward tbe east bank of tbe river,
toward tbe Peop1e.
A sudden cry sp1it tbe morning sti11ness.
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The man turned in tbe direction of tbe noise.
his breatb go.
Aki 1et
Tben be s1itbered a10ng tbe riverbank.
Be
parted some weeds and 100ked across.
The man joined tbe otbers grouped around tbe tracks Aki
had made on tbe far side.
started off.
riverbank.
bead.
They wbooped, pointed soutb, and
Aki f0110wed fro. tbe east side of tbe
Be f0110wed unti1 tbe sun was direct1y over bis
Then be watcbed from tbe top of a bi11, bidden by a
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The dust c10ud continued soutb.
Aki burried back to te11 tbe Peop1e tbe raiders were
gone.
Just before dark, tbey wa1ked back to tbe Mountain,
afraid of wbat tbe .igbt find.
Rocks were strewn around the mountaintop outside tbe
stone bouses.
A few broken pots 1ay witb sharp edges
pointing to tbe sky.
Aki cbecked tbe c1eft in tbe rock.
Nothing bad been disturbed.
Be carried tbe pots back up tbe mountain.
to rec1aim tbeir seeds.
Women scurried
Grandfatber t01d tbe wo.en not to
start a fire for three days, just in case tbe raiders were
watching.
Aki kept a 1ookout in a11 directions. Ducks f1ew
overbead in huge arrows pointing soutb.
Bis beart sang wben
he saw the hunting party coming from the nortb 1ate one
evening.
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The men
carr~ed
severa1 deer carcasses tied to po1es.
None of the deer were as 1arge as the buck Aki had seen.
The men gathered around Grandfather to te11 their hunting
ta1es.
In the g10w of the fire, Grandfather 1istened and
nodded.
Then he to1d the story of the raiders.
·You wou1d
have brought p1enty of meat for on1y yourse1ves if Aki had
not been with us.­
The men stared at Aki, standing in his mother's doorway.
His father motioned for Aki to join the circ1e.
-I see you have started a new carving, Grandfather,­
Father said.
-Is it about the hunt?­
-No,- answered Grandfather.
hunt.
-It is more important than a
We must a1ways remember Aki's bravery and how he
he1ped his peop1e survive.­
In the morning before the sun peeked over the eastern
mountains, Aki ran his hand 1ight1y over Grandfather's
pecking.
His story wou1d be to1d in the rock forever.
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