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Great Medicine told this man to go and call all of his red people to- 

 gether at a certain place. The man called, and the people came, 

 and it was the first time that they had all come together. When they 

 were assembled the Great Medicine blessed them, and gave them 

 some medicine spirit to awaken their dormant minds. From that 

 time on they seemed to possess intelligence, and to know what to do. 

 The Great Medicine spoke to one of the men again, and told him 

 to teach his people to band together, so that they all might work 

 and clothe their naked bodies with skins of panther and bear and 

 deer. The Great Medicine gave them power to hew and shape 

 certain kinds of flint found in the north, and other stone, into any 

 shape they wanted. They hewed stones into cups, pots, stone axes, 

 arrow heads, and spear heads. The flint they made into arrow and 

 spear heads. 



After the Great Medicine called the red people together, they 

 stayed together ever afterwards. They left the beautiful country 

 and went southward, in the same direction the hairy people had 

 gone. The hairy people remained naked, but the red people clothed 

 themselves because the Great Medicine told them to. When the 

 red men came the hairy people who had gone before had scattered 

 and made homes inside of high hills, and in caves high up in the 

 mountains. The red men seldom saw the hairy men, for they were 

 afraid and always went inside their caves when the red men went 

 to see them. In their caves they had beds made out of leaves and 

 skins. They had pottery and flint tools like those of the red men. 

 These hairy people did not increase, but decreased in numbers, until 

 they finally disappeared entirely, and to-day the red men cannot 

 tell what ever became of them. After the red men had left the 

 north country and gone south where the land was barren, the Great 

 Medicine again spoke to one of the red men and told him to tell his 

 people to return north, for the barren southland was going to be 

 flooded. When they returned to that beautiful land the white- 

 skinned, long-bearded men and some of the wild animals were gone 

 from there. They were no longer able to talk to the animals, but this 

 time they controlled all the animals, and they tamed the panther and 

 bear and other animals to catch game for them to eat. They in- 

 creased in numbers, and became tall and strong and active. Again 

 they left the beautiful land to go south. The water had gone, 

 and grass and trees had grown, and the land was beautiful like the 

 northland. For a long time they stayed in the south, but while 

 they were still there another flood came, and it scattered the red men 

 here and there. After a time the great waters went down again, 



