The Pueblo Indians told him about a sinking hole that kept taking his people and they never came back.
So Naiyenesgani went over to the sinking hole and made 4 different colored hoops. When he threw the first hoop in the water it made a hole in the center. As he threw the others in, the hole got bigger and bigger until there was no more water left.
A ladder was sticking out and when he went in the sinking place there was an old man and woman.
He filled the place with smoke and started telling the people to come out from behind the doors that they were in.
As they came out he told them to follow him and when they went back up the ladder he told them to go home.
Taos Pueblo
Source: Wikimedia Commons
Bibliography: Naiyenesgani Rescues the Taos Indians a part of Jicarilla Apache Texts edited by Pliny Earle Goddard
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