Actual warfare had taken place between the tribes within the time of Shotaye's recollection, and engagements were fought; one party got worsted and ran home, the other went home, too, and that settled the matter for the time being.

It was, therefore, not at all safe for an Indian from the Rito to meet one from the Puye, and _vice versa_.

Women made an exception, inasmuch as they were exposed only to capture and adoption in the tribe to which their captors belonged.

Such compulsory adoption was rendered very easy by the fact that nearly the same clans existed among all the Pueblos.

But the Eagle clan, for instance, which the Queres called Tyame hanutsh in their dialect, bore in the Tehua language the name of Tzedoa.
As soon as Shotaye saw into whose hands she had fallen, she felt completely reassured.