I. CEREMONIES. 



i.— THE PROPHET'S FOUR GREAT MEDICINE-ARROWS. 



Two or three thousand years ago, in the Cheyenne tribe, a boy 

 was born, who, from babyhood, possessed great intellectual power. 

 He not only had supernatural powers, but he was a prophet from the 

 beginning of his life. This boy grew into manhood, and lived to be 

 four hundred years old. He claimed to have received his powers 

 and to have come as a messenger from the Great Medicine, who sent 

 him to teach and organize the Cheyenne, that they "might know, 

 through him, what to do for their future. This Prophet's name was 

 Motzeyeuff. The Cheyenne, who then lived like animals, had med- 

 icine-men who were magicians. They became angry and drove the 

 Prophet away, because he killed a chief of the tribe who had abused 

 his playmates because they were skinning a young buffalo that they 

 had killed to get its hide for a robe for their Prophet. 



When the people drove the Prophet away he stayed away from 

 his tribe for four years. He went to a high mountain, and as he went 

 near it a door opened for him to enter into the earth, and he entered. 

 Inside of the mountain he communicated with the Great Medicine. 

 There were several other men there who represented other nations, 

 and were there to learn from the Great Medicine. These men con- 

 sisted of several red-skinned men, one black-skinned man, who was 

 dressed in Indian fashion, and one white-skinned man, who had long 

 hair on his chin. All wore long hair on their heads. The Great 

 Medicine instructed each and every one who was there for four years. 



The Prophet received his instructions direct from the Great 

 Medicine. After four years he returned to his people as a man of 

 supernatural power, a messenger, and a prophet from the Great Medi- 

 cine. When he returned he brought with him the buffalo to feed his 

 people; but the greatest gifts he had for them were the four great 

 medicine -arrows. The Great Medicine sent these medicine-arrows to 

 the Cheyenne as an emblem for their future. There were four original 

 medicine-arrows. These arrows possessed magic, and the Great Medi- 

 cine decreed that they should produce effects beyond natural powers. 

 For instance, when this Prophet, or the following Prophets, took the 

 arrows and held the points towards an enemy, or towards any kind of 



