r three pairs
received the names of To Dichini, Bitter Water; Hashkli{~COMBINING BREVE~}shni, Mud; and
Kinya Ani, Houses in the Cliffs. It required four days to make the journey
from the ocean to what was to be their homeland. On the first day children
were born to the several pairs; they matured by nightfall and camped apart
from the parents as though they were not of kin, and received in turn a
family name derived from their camp surroundings, from peculiarity of
dress or form, or from remarks they made. These in turn bore children on
the following day, who gave birth to others on the third. Thus were
produced three new generations from each parent pair. All these then
became clanship groups bearing names now applied to various Navaho clans.
The four generations, including the original pairs, formed phratries,
which have no names. The clans in each phratry in the order of generations
are as follows:

To Ahani - Water Is Close
Tzilh Klaani - Mountain Corner
Tane Zani - Scattered Mounds
Hone Gani - Goes Around

To Dichini - Bitter Water
Tsins Akani - Under the Trees
Bin Betoni - Deer Spring
To Dakoshe - Salty Water

Hashkli{~COMBINING BREVE~}shni - Mud
To Tsu{~COMBINING BREVE~}hni - Big Water
Bitani - Folds her Arms
Hluha Dine{~COMBINING BREVE~} - Reed People

Ki{~COMBINING BREVE~}nya Ani - Houses in the Cliffs
Be Aani - Fallen Leaves
Tzilh Tad - In Front of the Mountains
Ki{~COMBINING BREVE~}nya Ani - (An inferior clan of the same name as the first of this
group)

Cliff people already occupying the country formed three clans:
Tsenijikinne{~COMBINING BREVE~}, In the Rock Houses; To Het Kli{~COMBINING BREVE~}ni, Where the Waters Come
Together; and Tzilhnuhodinli, Beside the Mountain. An old woman joined the
Navaho from the salt lakes to the south, heading the Ashihin clan. People
from Jemez formed the Mai Deshkis, or Coyote Pass, clan; Apache from the
Cibicu canon, the Deschini clan, or Red-light People, and families from
Zuni the Nashtezhe{~COMBINING BREVE~}, Blackened Eyebrows, clan, and Tuh'chini, Red Heads,
clan, so called from their painted faces and bodies. There are numerous
other clanship groups derived from adopted peoples now recognized as being
distinctly Navaho; the first sixteen clans here named are accepted in the
tribe as being strictly Navaho in origin.

MARRIAGE--The girl's consent is necessary to marriage, but tribal custom
demands that the intended husband compensate her parents, the usual