Crossword-Solution: WAPO 4 letters, 7 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 9

They say that "Shoba-wapo" (the fire-water) is the greatest enemy of the Indian race, and that the Yankees, too cowardly to fight the Indians as men, have invented this terrible poison to destroy them without danger.

Take thy `Shoba-wapo' (fire-water), and give it to drink to thy warriors, that we may see them raving and tumbling like swine.

The Caddoes, who are now a small tribe of starved dogs, were then a large powerful nation, extending from the Cross Timbers to the waters of the great stream, in the East, but they were gamblers and drunkards; they would sell all their furs for the `Shoba-wapo' (fire-water), and return to their villages to poison their squaws, and make brutes of their children.

Soon they got nothing more to sell; and as they could not now do without the `Shoba-wapo,' they began to steal.

The site of Old Walpi, at Küchaptüvela, is the scene of an interesting rite in the New-fire ceremony at Walpi, for not far from it is a shrine dedicated to a supernatural being called Tüwapoñtumsi, "Earth-altar-woman." This shrine, or house, as it is called, is about 230 feet from the ruin, among the neighboring bowlders, and consists of four flat slabs set upright, forming an inclosure in which stands a log of fossil wood.