{"id":1372,"date":"2023-02-11T09:31:24","date_gmt":"2023-02-11T09:31:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/straightarrow.org\/stories\/?p=1372"},"modified":"2023-02-11T09:31:25","modified_gmt":"2023-02-11T09:31:25","slug":"the-origin-of-death-truhohi-yokut","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/straightarrow.org\/stories\/indigenous-stories\/yokut\/the-origin-of-death-truhohi-yokut\/","title":{"rendered":"The Origin Of Death (Truhohi Yokut)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>There were two insects, Shoyo and&nbsp;<dfn title=\"C-oyo, nearly Shroyo; the t's in Kokwiteit are palatal, approaching ch. Kokwiteit resembles the word for raven in other dialects.]\">Kokwiteit<\/dfn>. The latter was a chief. He, did not want many people to live. He gathered the people and said: &#8220;We will go. I do not know where. We must go somewhere. It will fill up. It is best if we make it that medicine-men will kill people. Then there will be a great ceremony for the dead.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Coyote liked that. The others did not like it. Coyote said: &#8220;When a chief or one of his family dies we will go to his village. We will have a great gathering. We will dance and enjoy ourselves.&#8221; Then the people liked the idea.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But it was Kokwiteit who was the cause. So now, here in this world, if one meets a kokwiteit in the road, people say: &#8220;There will be too many; let us kill him.&#8221; So they kill him. Shoyo did not want people to die, but Kokwiteit made it that they do.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><br>Go Back To:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/straightarrow.org\/stories\/indigenous-stories\/yokut-nation\/\">Yokut Nation<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There were two insects, Shoyo and&nbsp;Kokwiteit. The latter was a chief. He, did not want many people to live. He gathered the people and said: &#8220;We will go. I do not know where. We must go somewhere. It will fill up. It is best if we make it that medicine-men will kill people. Then there [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[535,536],"tags":[315],"class_list":["post-1372","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-yokut","category-yokut-stories","tag-yokut"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/straightarrow.org\/stories\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1372","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/straightarrow.org\/stories\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/straightarrow.org\/stories\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/straightarrow.org\/stories\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/straightarrow.org\/stories\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1372"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/straightarrow.org\/stories\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1372\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1373,"href":"https:\/\/straightarrow.org\/stories\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1372\/revisions\/1373"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/straightarrow.org\/stories\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1372"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/straightarrow.org\/stories\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1372"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/straightarrow.org\/stories\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1372"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}