The blow must then fall upon the males of other clans, for the majority of the Koshare were from the people of Shyuamo.

This plan was out of the question since the night when his negotiations with Nacaytzusle had come to such a disastrous termination.

But Tyope had laid his wires in other directions also.

Seeing that he could not reduce the numbers of the tribe by one fell blow, or that at least his endeavours might not succeed, he was devising in his peculiar underhand way means to create a disunion, and trying to secure for the time of the crisis a commanding position for his own clan.
As he could never have attempted all this alone, he needed an associate, an accomplice.

That accomplice he readily found in the old Koshare Naua.
In the same manner that Tyope aspired to the position of war-chief, the chief of the Delight Makers was coveting the rank of leading shaman, or medicine-man.