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Contents
Preface.
Introduction.
I. True Stories Of The Heavenly Beings.
Of His Journey, And That The Gods In The West Had Sent Him Back With The Buffalo. The People Took Their Bows And Arrows And In A Day Or So They Saw The Buffalo. The People Were Afraid Of Them, For This Was The First Time They Had Seen Any Buffalo. When They Had Killed Some Of Them And Tasted Of The Meat They Thought It Was Very Good. They Offered The Heart And Tongue To The Four Gods In The West, As They Had Been Told To Do. This Is Why The Three Bands, Pitahauirat, Chaui, And Kitkehahki, Instead Of Making Any Offering To Tirawa, Make Their First Offering To The Four Deities Who Stand In The West.
5. Long-Tongue, The Rolling Head.1
Shall Join Them. Then Your Sister And Brother Will Join Us, So That There Will Be Ten Stars Instead Of Seven Stars." (These People In The Heavens Are What Is Known As The Pleiades.) "When The World Comes To An End Then I Shall Join My Sons. My Daughter Will Also Join Us, But While We Live Upon This Earth We Shall Be Known As Great Warriors. Although We Are Birds, We Are Warriors. We Are The Hawks."
7. The Daughter Op The Evening-Star And Her Sacred Bundle. (See Abstracts.) [Told By Woman-Ready-To-Give, A Skidi Woman Whose Grandmother Was For Merly Keeper Of The Second Of The Two Morning-Star Bundles Among The Skidi. This Tale Is Presumably A Variant Of Tale No. 6. It Should Be Noted, However, That There Are Two Morning-Star Bundles Among The Skidi, And That The Tale Just Referred To Was Told By One Who Represents One Of These Bundles, Whereas The Teller Of This Tale Represents The Other Bundle. This Story Not Only Relates To The Origin Of A Sacred Bundle, But Also Relates To The Construction Of The Earth-Lodge Of The Pawnee. It Is Especially Interesting To Note In This Connection That, According To Both Tales, The Earliest Homes Of The Skidi Were Not Earth But Grass Lodges.]
People Now Knew What They Must Do In This Life, They Jumped Into Their Basket And Went Up Into The Heavens Again. The Spider- Woman Said That The Doctor's Dance Is The Same And Represents The Moon, Who Gave Knowledge To These People. She Helped The Big-Black-Meteoric-Star To Give The Man Power To Cure The Sick And To Do Mysteries. She Sat In The Southwest Corner Of The Lodge And The People In The South Called Her Sister, While The Doctors In The North Called Her Their Wife.
Made. A Few Years Afterwards The Other Young Man Started Up The Medicine-Men's Dance. He Taught Young Men Whom He Selected And He Had Many Followers. The People Increased And Became Numerous.
There Will Be Singing In The Fields. Remember Where The Singing Comes From. Remember That That Is The Sacred Ear Of Corn. Take It From The Stalk And Take It To The Old Man, Who Will Place It In The Sacred Bundle So That People Will Know That Mother-Corn Did Sing To Her Peo Ple." The Pawnee Worship Mother-Corn, Because She Represents Mother-Evening-Star.
18. The Cannibal Witch And The Boy Who Conquered The Buffalo.1
20. Spotted-Horse; A Brave And A Chief.1
21. The Boy Who Was Given Power To Call The Buffalo.
In The Spring He Told His Mother And Sister To Plant The Seeds Which He Had. In The Fall When They Gathered In Their Crops They Did Not Have Many To Divide With Other People. They Planted Again Next Spring And In The Fall They Had More. The Boy Divided The Seeds Among The People, Giving A Few Grains To Each Family. In The Spring They All Planted And They Had Plenty Of Corn After That. They Also Had Plenty Of Buffalo, And The People Say That This Is The Way They Got Their Seeds — It Was Through The Man Who Was A Great Gambler.
27. The Boy Who Called The Buffalo And Went To North-Wind.1
Village Site. It Was Now Dusk. When He Entered The Village Site The Voices Came Up From Everywhere. The Grass, The Weeds, The Insects, Tipi Poles, All Shouted And Sang:
The People Went On A Hunt And While On This Hunt The Young Man Killed Four Buffalo And Made Them Holy, So That They Could Be Sacrificed To The Different Gods. After He Did This He Married The Daughter Of The Chief. This Young Man Became A Great Warrior, While The Other Young Man Became A Great Medicine-Man. The Young Man Then Told The Peo Ple That He Was Born Under The Protection Of The Sun; That This Woman Who Was Now Killed Was The Last Of The Witch-Women In The Country. The Young Man Then Told The People That From That Time On They Must Call Him White-Sun ; So He Was Afterwards Known By This Name. He Did Not Become A Chief. He Was A Great Warrior And Did Not Care To Become A Chief.
33. The Last Op The White Buffalo.
Do Not Stay Around The Grave Here, For You Shall Never See Me, And I Am Not Coming Back To You." Then The Woman Turned Into A Whirlwind Again And Disappeared. The Man Was Broken-Hearted. He Stayed Around The Grave, And Although The Other Wife Came Up He Waved Her To One Side And Would Not Listen To Her. The Man Remained Around The Grave And Would Not Eat Anything, And So He Starved To Death. The People Did Not Bury Him Beside The Woman. They Took Him And Buried Him In Another Place. The Woman Went Back To The Spirit Land With The Child After The Man Died.
Ii. Tales Of Ready-To-Qive.
39. Handsome-Boy And After-Birth Boy.1
Move To The Place Where He Lived. The People Moved Into The Timber And The Chief Then Invited The Boy And Said: "My Son, I Give You My Daughterto Marry." The Young Boy Said: "The Chief Is Good, But I Can Not Take Her Just Now." The Chief Insisted And Said: "The Girl Shall Go To Your Home. " The Girl Went To The Boy 'S Home And Stayed All Night. The Next Time The Boy Tried To Get The Buffalo He Found That His Power Was Gone From Him, For He Had Lain With A Girl And Had No More Power. If He Had Killed Buffalo Four Times For The People He Might Have Mar Ried And Still Kept His Power; But Before Killing Buffalo Four Times He Married And So He Lost His Power.
Other Men And Then Returned To The Lodge. The Boy Said: "White- Moccasins, You May Kill Me Now If You Can." White-Moccasins Tried To Kill The Boy, But Could Not. Then The Boy Said: "I Will Show You My Power." The Boy Waved His Hand At White-Moccasins And White- Moccasins Began To Pound His Head Upon The Trees And Everything That Came In His Way. Then The People Who Were With White-Moccasins Jumped On The Boy And Began To Strike Him With Clubs. The Boy Then Took His Whistle And Whistled. As The Boy Whistled, All Of The People About Him Fell Dead. After A While He Whistled Again, And White-Mocca Sins Fell Dead.
When He Got To His Home, He Released The Woman. For The First Time Sun-Ray Was Sorry For Her. He Said: "Woman, I Will Let You Go. I Will Take You To That Village Where You Were And You May Stay With The People. I Shall Return Where I Belong, And All The Sun-Rays Will Be Together Hereafter. " Then Sun-Ray Took The Woman In His Rattle, Placed Her On His Belt, And Traveled To The Village And Took Her Into The Lodge Where She Had Been. He Told The People To Take Care Of Her, Saying That He Was Going Back To The Sun, Where He Belonged; Then He Stood Where He Had Entered The Lodge As A Sun-Ray And Disappeared.
There Where A Group Of Trees Stands By The Water, * * * * *
57. The Boy Who Married A Buffalo.1
58. The Buffalo Wipe And The Dispersion Of The Buffalo.1
Three Times The Boy Brought The Buffalo Himself And The Fourth Time He Led Them Out To The Red Hills. He Stood Upon The Hill, Waved His Robe, And The Buffalo Came Out From The Sides Of The Hills. The People Made A Big Killing And Were Satisfied. The People Now Had Plenty Of Meat. After This The Buffalo Became Numerous Throughout The Land, And The Peo Ple Did Not Need Anybody To Call The Buffalo. The Boy And The Old Woman Went To Live In The Chief's Lodge. The Boy Never Married Any Of The Other Sisters, But Remained With The Youngest. They Had Many Children.
Old Red Painted Woman, We Came Here To Ask For Your Daughter. We Will Give You Two Valleys Full Of Buffalo.
From The Root Grows A Vine With A Little Squash On It, And The Indians Call This Squash Medicine. After They Had Killed Red-Spider-Woman, The Buffalo Scattered All Over The Land. That Is Why The Buffalo Were Found All Over This Country.
First To Be Killed And Consecrated. The People Killed Many Buffalo, And They Ran Many, Together With The Old Bull, Into The Village, So That The Boys Shot At It. All Came True As The Calf Had Dreamed, And So From That Time The Buffalo Always Knew Through Dreams When The People Were Going To Surround Them. As Long As There Was One Of Their Number To Be Consecrated To The Gods, The Buffalo Were Satisfied ; But If None Were Con Secrated, The Buffalo Did Not Like It And Rose Up At Once And Ran Away, So That The People Could Not Kill Them.
Secrate That Deer To Tirawa. " They Killed The Deer And The People Let The Man Have It Who Had Consecrated It. The Man Took It To The Lodge Of The Priest And There They Consecrated The Deer To Tirawa By Singing Sacred Songs. Several Days After This The People Found Many Buffalo. They Surrounded The Buffalo And Killed Many. Several Of The Buffalo They Consecrated To Tirawa, And So Ever After That, Whenever The Indians Were Upon The Hunt, The Deer Was First Consecrated And Then The Buffalo.
Home There. Then The Boy Said: "I Am Done. My Work Is Finished." He Flew Up Into The Tree As A Speckled Woodpecker. And So It Is That We Find The Woodpecker's Nests At The Top Of Hollow Trees And The Nests Of The Mice At The Foot Of The Hollow Trees.
People Stepped Upon Her Belly They Made The Water Run From Her Genital. She Was Left There, And That Is Why We Have Springs Near The Banks Of The Streams Of Water. If The Young Man Had Not Beaten The Old Woman In Diving There Would Still Be Witches In The Country, And They Would Be Killing People.
76. The Witch-Woman And Her Home.1
Hi. The Origin Of Medicine Ceremonies Or Power.
Age He Gave His Son His Beaver That He Used In His Medicine Ceremonies And Told Him To Keep Up The Ceremony, For He Himself Was Getting Old. His Son Learned His Ceremonies And The Old Man Died.
Poor Boy, Through These Loons, Became Not Only A Warrior But A Great Medicine-Man. A Few Years After The Loons Had Died The Poor Boy Taught All That He Knew To The Son Of The Chief, For He Was Also Broken In Spirit. He Finally Died And All The Mysteries Of The Medicine-Man Were Left With The Chief's Son.
With The Stone Upon It. He Could Not Find The Bundle; It Was Lost. All The People Who Knew The Stone-Medicine-Men 'S Ceremony Have Died And The Ceremony No Longer Exists.
Keeper Dropped The Stone, Rather Than Have The Enemy Capture It. The Keeper Was Killed. The Stone Was Never Found, But There Were Other Men Who Had Learned The Ceremony, And To This Day The Ceremony Is Still Kept Up By The Priests. Songs Are Still Sung About Animal-Boy — About His Wanderings And His Wonderful Doings. This Boy Died Of Old Age And Left Many Children Who Were Taught The Ceremony By Their Mother.
82. The Squash Medicine.1
Offer You Smoke In The Night. " So It Was Through The Root And The Songs He Learned From The Woman, Who Was None Other Than The Root Itself, That This Man Became A Great Medicine-Man.
The Woman Took The Little Animal And Went Down To The Stream Of Water. She Dipped The Animal 'S Nose Into The Water, And When She Took It Up She Saw A Little Piece Of Liver In Its Mouth. She Could See The Water Heave, For The Animals Were In The Water Moving Around. When The Water Was Stirred The Woman Could See Pieces Of Entrails In The Water, And Also Blood. She Went Back To The Village Into Her Lodge. The Boy Took The Animal And Placed It Near The Fireplace, Gave It Some Smoke And Tobacco, And Then Put It Back In The Bundle. After That The Boy Became The Leader Of The Medicine-Lodge And Taught The People What The Animals Had Taught Him And Not What His Father Had Taught Him. The People Knew That The Boy Was A Wonderful Boy And That He Had Been Taken Into The Animals' Lodge At Pahuk.
I Am Now Imitating The Bear, I Am Now Acting Like One. Yonder Shall Come, Yonder Shall Come, Yonder Shall Come, Yonder Shall Come, Yonder Shall Come, Yonder Shall Come.
Many Times, While On A Buffalo Hunt, The Woman Would Find Cedar Limbs Around Her Tipi. She Would Tie Them Into A Bundle And Pack Them Around Until The People Who Belonged To The Bear Family Came And Asked For Some Of The Cedar Branches. She Would Give Them Away, But Never Threw Them Away. This Woman Lived To Be Very Old. When She Died, The Son Took Her Place And Became One Of The Four Leading Dancers In The Bear Ceremony. The Woman Before She Died Gave A Name To The Chaui Man, And That Name Was Carry-The-War-Club-In-Anger. Her Son She Named Wonderful-Sun. Her Teachings Are Now Kept By Seems-Like-Chief. He Is A Young Man, But Has In His Keeping A Bear's Claw That The Woman Was Supposed To Have, And Also Has A Young Bear Robe Which Is Decorated. This Dance Is Still Performed Each Summer By The Descendants Of This Chaui.
93. The Origin Op The Buffalo Ceremony.1
97. The Buffalo Game Medicine.1
98. The Lost Warrior And The Singing Buffalo Medicine.1
99. The Buffalo Medicine War Shield.1
100. The Man Who Married A Deer-1
He Should Be Their Leader; That He Was Possessed Of More Powers Than They Were. For A Number Of Years The Man Lived With The People. One Day The Woman Said To Her Husband: "I Must Now Go To My People. My Chil Dren Are With You. They Know Of Our Ways, And Whatever They May Not Know, Teach Them, For I Can Not Remain With You Any Longer. " Before The Man Could Say Anything, The Woman Went Out Of The Lodge, Changed Into A Black-Tail Deer, And Ran Away. The Man Saw Her Go. He Stayed With His People And Cared For His Children, But He Was Always Unhappy. The Children Grew Up And Both Married. The Boy Possessed Great Powers As Did His Father. When The Man Saw That His Children Were Happy He Took His Quiver, Bow, And Arrows, And Went Into The Woods And Never Returned To His People.
After He Had Lived A Long Time He Committed Suicide. Something Told Him That His Friend Scalped-Man Was Gone, And So He Did Not Wish To Live Any Longer.
About The Eagles, And Waved The Eagle Wing Over Their Bodies Where The Pain Was. The Pain Would Leave Them. Eagle-Boy Became A Great Medicine-Man, A Warrior, And Finally A Chief. He Became Very Old. Then He Handed The Story, The Eagle Skin, And Everything That Went With It To His Son. These Talismans Have Been Handed Down Until At The Present Time Hawk, Of The Pitahauirat Band, Is The Keeper Of Everything — The Whistle, The Rattle, And The White Clay. He Now Dances The Eagle Dance. In The Medicine-Men's Dances, Hawk Sings The Song That Was Taught The Boy By The Eagles When They Carried The Boy 'S Uncle Up Into The Sky. There Is Another Song Sung When The Boy Was Transformed Into An Eagle. There Are Also Other Songs Which Go With This Story.
Stone. " The Boy And The Dog Turned Into Stone And There They Sat Upon The Hill. The People Believed That Their Turning Into Red Stone Was The Origin Of Red Sandstone In The Country.
This Dance You Ate Nothing, Neither Did You Drink. " Then The Big White Swans In The Center Spoke And Said: "My Son, We Are Leaders Of This Dance. When You Go Home Our Spirits Will Go With You. You Shall From This Time On Dream Of This Dance And Dream Of All That You Are To Do And Then You Will Have The Ceremony. You Shall Always Give This Dance At The Time When The Buffalo Bulls Get Upon High Hills And Stand There, For It Was At That Time That You Found The Birds Dancing In The Timber. " When The Swans Had Finished, The Owls Circled Around And Began To Sing. The Man Learned The Songs Which Were Sung By The Owls, And Then He Was Told To Go Home And Start The Dance. When The Young Man Started The Dance He Had Visions, So That He Knew Clearly The Rites Which He Was To Perform. After The First Dance The Boy Knew The Ceremony And Gave Many Sun Dances During The Sum Mers.
110. The Woman Who Was Bewitched By A Pox.'
Throwing Dust In The Air, He Whirled Himself Around And Turned Into A Whirlwind, Which Enveloped The Sick Man And Made Him Well. Instead Of Turning Back Into A Man, Ghost-Man Fell Down To The Ground A Skeleton. The People Were Scared And Ran Out Of The Lodge. The Man Who Recov Ered Stayed In The Lodge, Gathered Up The Bones, And Buried Them. Ghost-Man Made A Mistake When He Turned Himself Into A Whirlwind. This Is Why We Call Whirlwinds "Ghosts" Or "Spirits."
114. Handsome-Boy.1
Iv. Coyote Tales.
About This Time The People Went Out To Hunt For Coyote-Man. They Found Him, Made A Big Fire, And Placed Him Upon It. After A While A Noise Was Heard Something Like A Gun-Shot. They Saw Something Pop From The Fire. The Thing Flew Over Into The Timber, And As It Fell It Gave One Big Warwhoop. The People Say That Instead Of Coyote-Man Burning Up He Jumped Over Into The Timber And Turned Into A Hairy Man. He Was Never To Associate With The People Any More.
The Beavers, And Some Of Them Ran Away Into The Water. Coyote Then Went Up And Brought His Children And They Took The Beavers Up To Their Lodge. There They Skinned Them And Had Plenty To Eat. After They Had Eaten All Their Meat They Tried To Play The Same Trick On The Beavers Again, But The Beavers Would Not Listen To Coyote Any More.
Here My Skull Rests. But There You Stand, Coyote, Dying Of Starvation. Here My Skull Rests.
128. Coyote Turns Into A Buffalo.1
129. Coyote Family Run After The Buffalo.1
130. Coyote Steals Turtle's Buffalo.1
Planning To Get A Chance To Kill And Eat Him. They Selected A Place Where There Was Tall Grass. Coyote Hid Some Place In The Grass And When Prairie- Chicken Came Along He Jumped At Him And Tried To Scare Him, But Prairie- Chicken Only Laughed When He Saw Coyote. Then Prairie-Chickensaid: ' ' Now It Is My Time To Try To Frighten You . ' ' Prairie-Chicken Slipped Off To A Place Close To A Steep Bank And Hid There. Coyote Walked All Through The Grass, Expecting Prairie-Chicken To Jump Out Some Place. Prairie-Chicken Did Not Appear And Coyote Had Forgotten All About Him And Started On His Way, When Suddenly Prairie-Chicken Flew Up In Coyote's Face. Coyote Gave A Great Leap, For He Was Frightened. He Jumped Over The Steep Bank And Fell To The Bottom Of The Canyon, Where He Died From His Wounds. When We See Coyotes At The Bottom Of Steep Banks And In Canyons We Know That Some One Has Frightened Them And That They Have Jumped Over And So Met Their Death Through Fear.
139. Coyote And The Salt.1
141. Coyote And The Artichoke.1
Said: "Go Your Way. All Of Your People Will Have A Short Membrum. It Was Never Intended That You Should Have A Long One. Now Go." Coyote Went On, And He Found That All The Others Were In A Condition Similar To His. If That Little Insect Had Not Performed The Operation, All The Male People Would Have Had A Membrum Which Would Reach Around Their Waists. In Scattering The Pieces He Gave Us Plums And Other Berries Over The Land.
Here." The Young Beaver Jumped Into The Water And Came To The Lodge Of The Other Beavers That Had Been Killed. Then One Of The Beavers Came Out And Said To The Bird: "We Thank You For Bringing Our Young One Here. Tell The Skunks That They Shall Never Be Our Friends; That We Are Their Enemies, Though We Are Glad That They Placed Us In The Water. Here We Shall Make Our Home For All Time." Ever Since, The Beavers Have Lived In The Water, And When The People In Olden Times Killed The Beavers They Were Careful Not To Lose Any Of The Beavers' Bones. They Would Throw The Bones All Into The Water, Believing That The Bones Would Again Turn Into Beavers.
145. How Rabbit Lost His Tail1
Fooled You." The Other Members Of The War Party Were Not Found. The People Knew That They Were Still In The Lodge, But They Could Not Find Them. Finally, Mosquito Went Out Of The Lodge And Flew Into A Swampy Country, Where He Got His Legs Stuck In The Mud. Ever Since The Time Of The Tur Tle's War Party, Crickets Have Lived In People's Lodges, And Mosquitoes Have Lived Near Swampy Places.
Abstracts.
His Village, Where The People Are Clamoring For Food. Chief Is Invited To His Lodge; Is Told How They May Obtain Buffalo. Ceremonies Are Performed. Buffalo Come, First One Being Sacred And Treated In Accordance With Moon's Instructions. After People Have Been Fed, They Construct Earth-Lodges. Buffalo In Meantime Having Entirely Left Their Cave, Young Man Places Feathered Stick In Ground Four Times. He Returns To Cave, Where Men Give Him Seeds, Which He Gives To His People. On Returning To Cave He Finds That Spring Has Become Dry And Cave Has Disappeared. The People Become Dissatisfied And Divide Up Into Different Bands, Which Disperse.
To Prevent Him From Releasing Buffalo Another Time, And Waves Her Robe, Which Has On It Picture Of Morning-Star. The Boy Shoots At This, And Instead Appears New Moon Symbol, Thus Revealing Her True Identity. Boy Shoots Again And Quarter Moon Appears; Again, Three-Quarter Moon Appears; Fourth Time Full Moon Appears. As He Shoots At It Again It Turns Into Spider, Which He Kills With His Bow And Arrow. Placing Spider On His Bow He Shoots It Into Heavens, Where Spider Remains As Moon. Young Man Again Releases Buffalo, Which Scatter Over Land; Also Deer, Antelope, Etc. He Feeds Snakes And Returns To Heavens As Morning-Star, Leaving Substitute In His Place, Who Goes To Village And Marries. People Now Increase, Because Spider- Woman Has Disappeared.
Strained Fourth Time. But Fifth Time Crows Disappear In Tree Under Which Man Had Been Lying, And Just Then Hill Appears Into Which Man Is Invited, Where He Finds Himself In Cave In Which Crows Dance And Make Him Member Of The Crow Lance Society. He Is Taught Songs And Ritual. Man Had Been Scared Simply By Coyotes And Crows. Coyotes Wanted To Eat Him Up, But Crows Preferred To Give Him Their Ceremonies.
14. The Grain-Of-Corn Bundle.
19. The Warrior And The Black Lightning Arrow.
Chokes, Secures Offerings, Makes His Offerings As Directed, And His Parents Hunt Arti Chokes, But Find Ground Beans. Next, Boy Kills Bear And Then Discovers Buffalo, And Becomes Efficient In Calling Buffalo.
Known As Whipping Feather And Have Power To Travel Fast And Drive Buffalo. Boy Accompanies His Parents And They Find Ground Beans. Next He Returns Home With Deer And Then Notifies People That Buffalo Have Arrived. Boy Marries And Event Ually Goes To North Wind.
He Decides Shall Be That Of Sister. Girl Discovers That Brothers Disappear Each Night, Returning In Morning. They Are Stars. Finally They Decide To Take Her With Them And She Becomes Seventh Of The Pleiades.
Pass Through Additional Villages Until They Come To Village Of Bad People. They Shake Their Heads, Which Makes Sound Like Rattles, And They Cause Death Of All People In Village, One Starting In On West Side And Other On East. People Die Whether They Look At Them Or Not. Passing On, They Encounter Their Father's Tracks By Stream Of Water. On Opposite Side They Encounter Strange Being, Who Challenges Them. Younger Brother Is Victorious And Conquers Lizard Through His Ability To Cause His Feet To Turn Into Flint Stone. They Finally Enter Village Which Contains Their Father. Again They Kill People, Including Their Father, Whose Body They Carry To High Hill. Then They Make A Funeral Pyre With Four Willow, Cottonwood, Box-Elder, And Elm Poles. They Ascend With Him In Rising Smoke.
Advance And Find Warriors Dancing. Long- Tooth-Boy Disguises Himself, Enters Witch's Village, And Takes Buffalo Hide, Asking In Which Tipi Old Woman Is Hid. He Sees His Father Sitting By Witch, Who Recognizes Him. He Returns To His Brother. The Two Go To Gopher Hill And Throw Up Handful Of Earth, Causing Dust Storm, In Midst Of Which They Enter Tipi Where Their Father Is Confined. There Every One Has Covered His Head, And Boys Escape. In The Night They Re-Enter Lodge, Find Witch Asleep, Cut Off Her Head, And Take Their Father With Them. The Three Bounce Up And Down In Air Old Woman's Head, Screaming. Returning Home, Long-Tooth- Boy Is About To Scalp Old Woman, But Begs That Her Head May Be Placed On Pole Outside Of Lodge Where She Is To Remain And Serve As Sentinel.
Marry Man, Youngest Daughter Says She Does Not Believe In Him. Girl Is Given Food And Sent Home. Boy's Grandmother Visits Chief To Ask For Girl In Marriage. Chief Leaves Decision With His Daughter. She Favors Proposal, Boy Is Brought, And They Are Married. Young Couple Are Mistreated By Older Sisters. On Fourth Day Burnt- Belly Enters Lodge As Eagle. As He Turns Into Human Form He Wears Fine Eagle Feather Garments. Two Eldest Sisters Now Try To Claim Him As Their Husband. He Rejects Them And Tells Chief To Warn People To Get Ready For Buffalo Hunt. He Leads People Into Timber. They Find Much Small Game. Next, They Find Buffalo. Boy Is Given A New Tipi, Where He Lives With His Grandmother And His Wife.
Are Helpless. Woman Goes On And Elks Try To Help Her To Catch Her Brother In Same Manner; Likewise Buffalo. They Tell Her That They All Know This Eagle; That He Is Morning-Star, Chief Of The Heavenly Gods, Who Desires Only Human Flesh. They Agree To Help To Capture Him. So Many Buffalo Die, Making Great Odor. They Take Girl And Cut Her Open, Place Her On Arbor, And Then Magpie Comes, And Also Crow And Coyote, To Feed. Finally, Eagle Alights Upon The Arbor; Says That He Is Willing To Eat Of Human Being, At Which Other Animals Begin To Eat. As The Eagle Is Looking For Girl's Heart She Grabs His Legs And He Becomes Boy Again, And He Says That Henceforth When People Live On Earth An Enemy Shall Be Sacrificed To Morning-Star, But Not Until Many Have Been Made Holy. The Two Disappear In Dark Clouds, She Returning To Moon, Boy To East, Where He Stands Behind His Brother.
Frightened As He Realizes That He Has Killed Chief Of Buffalo. People Are All Frightened. They Surround Village With Stones, Which Grow, Making A High Corral About Village. People See Cloud Of Dust Reaching To Sky, Made By Buffalo, Which Attack Village, But Are Unsuccessful, Whereupon They Scatter Over Earth. Following Day Stones Of Corral Are Reduced To Their Natural Size. Flint Man Loses His Magic Stone, Which Angers Gods, Who Send Rainstorm, Lightning Strikes Him, And He Is Placed In Heavens.
So Place Himself As Not To See Manner Of Calf's Exit. He Is Instructed To Shoot Calf, Which He Takes Home. From This Time On He Brings Larger Buffalo Home Each Day. Grandmother Jerks Meat And Stores It In Parfleches. Girl Visits Lodge And Is Fed. Boy Again Encounters His Benefactor, Who Gives Him Full Costume. He Asks His Grandmother To Go To Chief's Lodge And Ask For His Girl In Marriage. Chief Promises His Answer Next Day. In Meantime Youngest Daughter Of Chief Again Visits Them And Tells Of Her Love For Boy. She Carries Meat Home, Which She Gives To Her Parents In Night. On Old Woman's Return Next Day Chief Consents To His Daughter's Mar Riage. He Enters Chief's Tipi.and Being Finelyarrayed Other Daughters, Who Formerly Despised Him, Now Wish To Marry Him. He Takes Youngest Daughter Back To His Grandmother's Lodge, Where They Have Feast, Inviting Chief. People Are Starving And Boy Calls Buffalo Four Times, And Buffalo Become Numerous. Boy Remains Faith Ful To His Young Wife. They Have Many Children.
She Gives Birth To Calf In Ravine And Joins Those Who Escape Slaughter, Who Now Return Home. Calf Is Taught By Wind Name Of Its Father And Mother, And Starts Home Sing Ing Of Its Parentage. People Are Surprised, For They Thought Girl Maiden. When Chief Is Assured That Girl Is Mother Of Calf, She Is Commanded To Cease Carrying Sacred Bundle. Henceforth, Witch Woman Shall Not Carry Bundle, And Women Of High Birth, Though Unmarried, Occasionally Have Children.
Lodge About Which Are Playing Three Ugly Girls And One Beautiful Girl. Three Ugly Girls Enter Lodge And Youngest Warns Him Against Her Mother, Who Is Cannibal. In Morning Young Man Is Asked Into Lodge, Is Offered Food Repeatedly, But Ithas No Effect Upon Him. Old Woman Challenges Him To Dance, But He Becomes Snowbird And Then Lark, Whereupon He Carries Old Woman Up To Moon. Then He Returns, Dismisses Three Oldest Girls And Takes Youngest Girl To His Village As His Wife. She Prepares Garden And Plants Different Kinds Of Seeds. In Meantime He Goes To West And Brings Buffalo, Which Power He Has Obtained From Larks.
They Return Home And Next Year Young Man Gives Medicine Ceremony And Does Many Wonderful Performances And Becomes Leading Medicine-Man, Commanding Cottonwood Tree To Grow From Cottonwood Stick. Following Year Young Man Again Has His Performance, This Time Making Beaver-Lodge And Making Use Of Powers Of Beavers In Which He Thrusts Sticks Through Cheeks Of His Friends, Swallows Willow Poles, Commands Dead Loon To Fly About Lake, Etc. He Lives To Old Age And Transmits His Beaver Medicine To His Son.
79. The Lightning's Medicine Ceremony.
85. The Medicine-Man Who Killed His Son.
91. The Bear Medicine And Ceremony.
She Has Learned And Of Her Visit To Bears' Lodge. Several Years Afterward She Gives Birth To Son, Who Is Never Sick; Later, To Girl, And Thereafter To Many Children. They All Die, Except First Two. Husband Kills Many Buffalo, They Make Tipi, And She Originates Bear Dance. She Warns Her Husband That Arrows Will Be Powerless Against Him Unless They Strike Him On Hands. One Time Camp Is Attacked, Woman's Husband Fights Bravely, But Is Wounded In Many Places. His Wife, Learning Of Fact, Asks For Menstruating Woman. His Niece Comes Forward, Is Taken To Wounded Man, But They Are Too Late, For He Is Dead. For Many Months She Mourns Her Husband. She Teaches Her Boy Bear Mysteries. She Is Visited By A Chaui, Who, Being Sincere In Spirit, Is Taught Bear Dance. He Remains With Her Several Years, Caring For Her Chil Dren. She Often Performs In Medicine-Lodges. She Lives To Old Age And Her Son Becomes One Of Four Leaders Of Bear Ceremony.
94. The Buffalo Medicine Dance.
97. The Buffalo Game Medicine.
Caused Many Ravens To Make Noise Like Human Beings. They Enter Lodge, Where Man Finds Many Animals, Elks Being Leaders. They Sing, And All Have Turned Into People, Each After His Kind. They Dance And Sing, And Eat Red Beans, Some Of Which They Give To Man, Who Becomes Very Ill. He Believes Himself Dead And Visits Heavens And Sees Tirawa Sitting In Earth-Lodge Holding Bow In His Left Hand And Sage In His Right. Tirawa Puts Wild Sage On Ground, Moves It, And Red Beans Appear. Tirawa Tells Him He Is To Return To His People And Teach Them This Dance. At Daylight People Turn Into Animals And Birds And Leave Lodge, They Return Each Night For Four Nights, And Man Returns To His People. On His Way Home He Makes Songs Commemorating His Introduction To Lodge, And He Institutes Deer Dance.
104. The Scalped-Man Medicine.
Painted Yellow And Its Forehead Black. She Calls Women, Who Look Into Log, But Child Has Disappeared. Girl Screams Like Pox, And Fox Runs From Them, And Girl Acts Like Fox. At Home Medicine-Man Is Sent For, Who Doctors Girl, Placing Her Over Smoke, Which She Inhales. She Vomits, Throwing Up White Clay And Fox Hair. Man Sucks Upon Her Body, Drawing Out Hairs. She Becomes Well. Many Years After She Has A Pain In Her Wrist, Sore Forms, And White Clay Appears. She Is Then Fully Recovered. She Lives To Old Age And Has Many Children.
124. Coyote-Man And His Tricks.
130. Coyote Steals Turtle's Buffalo.
142. Coyote, The Plum Trees, And The Grape Vines.
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