390 OSAGK TKAOITIONS. 



98 " My bowels shall be bowels for them. 



■• My thighs shall be thighs for them. 



■' My knees shall be knees for them. 



"The calves of my legs shall be calves of their legs. 

 Wi " My heels shall be their heels. 



" My toes shall be their toes. 



" My claws shall be their toenails. 

 105 " You shall continue to exist without any cause of <lesti-ucti<): 



" Your chililren shall live as human beings. 



"The siJeech (or breath) of childs-en will I bestow on your c 



UNC"' IKJAME. QUf^PASA" ITAdE.' 

 (Ti'ailition of the Bald Eagle subgens.i 



' This fragment of the tradition of the Bald Eagle subgens of the Tsiou wactasje 

 gens was told by Pahti-ska, the chief, to Hada-oii^se, who related it to the writer on 

 the following day. 



Hada-oiiise told some of the tradition first in English, but on chanting it in Osage 

 he did not give all; so the former account is now given in these notes: "When the 

 ancestors of the Bald Eagle people came to this earth they alighted on a sycamore 

 tree, as all of the surrounding country was under water. Tliis water was dried up 

 by the ancestors of the Elk people, .KcordinK to the tradition of the Upqa" or Elk 

 gens; but this is disputed by tlif iiirnilpiis nf the Idats'e gens, who are Kansa or 

 Wind people. They say that tliiir anccsturs blew on the water, drying it up and 

 causing the growth of vegetation. As soon as the water was gone the Bald Eagle 

 people alighted on the ground. Then they met the Black Bear, who offered to be- 

 come the servant of the Tsiou wactaJje people. So he was sent to Watse-^uJia, who 

 was a red star; then to Watse-mi''Jia, a star near the Morning Star; then to the Sun, 

 Moon, and Seven Stars. As the people journeyed, the Black Bear said to the Tsiou 

 leader. ' Brother, I see a man's trail. Here is the man." The stranger said, ' I am 

 a young Hansja. I am fit for work.' So they took him with them. Then they 

 saw another trail, of which the Black Bear spoke to the Tsiou leader. They over, 

 took the man. who was Haii3[aqtsi or Real Han5[a. By and by they reached the 

 village of the Hans[a utacfan^se. They entered the village and made peace with the 

 inhabitants. Then the leader of the HafiJia uta4'an;se said. ' We have some people 

 come to us, and we will make them our chiefs.' So the two wactane were made 

 chiefs. The wactasje were then sent to search for a land where they might dwell, 

 as the village of the Hansja uta(|an:)8e was filthy and offensive on account of the dead 

 bodies in and around it. This council was the first one of the whole nation. The 

 two wacta^e went out as mourners for seven days. The Hansja wacta5[e (Pa"iika= 

 Ponka came back first, saying, ' I have found a place.' Afterwards the Tsiou 

 wactaJie returned and reported. The council was held again to decide to which 



