124 THE OSAGE TRIBE Ibth. ann. 36 



10. Wlicu tlio little ones also make of him tlicir bodies 



1 1 . They shall always be free from all causes of death, 



12. And they shall enable themselves to live to see old age as they 



travel the path of life. 



18. Behold the skin of my feet wherein it is dark in color. 



14. The dark soles of my feet I have made to be as my charcoal; 



15. When the little ones also make it to be as their charcoal 



16. They shall have charcoal that will easily sink into their skin as 



they travel the path of life. 



17. Behold, the tip of my nose is dark in color. 



18. The dark tip of my nose I have made to be as my charcoal; 



19. When the little ones also make it to be as their charcoal 



20. They shall have charcoal that will easily sink into their skm. 



21. Behold my body that is black in color. 



22. My body that is black in color I have made to be as my charcoal; 



23. When the little ones also make it to be as their charcoal 



24. They shall have charcoal that will easily sink into their skin. 



25. When the little ones make of me the means of reaching old age 



26. They shall always live to see old age; 



27. And the four great divisions of days 



28. They shall not fail to reach and to enter as they travel the path 



of life. 



The Xu-tha' Zhu-dse (Red Eagle) Gens 

 (Osage version, p. 344; literal translation, p. 511) 



1. Verily, at that time and place, it has been said, in this house, 



2. The Tsi'-zhu, a people who possess seven fireplaces, 



3. Spake to the Tsi'-zhu Wa-shta'-ge (Tsi'-zhu Peace gens), 



4. Who had made of the Red Eagle their body (red is here used 



as a trope), 



5. Saying: O, grandfather, 



6. The httle ones have nothing of which to make their bodies. 



7. The fsi'-zhu Wa-shta'-ge quickly replied: O, httle ones, 



8. You say the little ones have nothing of which to make their 



bodies. 



9. I am a person of whom the little ones may well make their 



bodies. 



10. When they make of the Red Eagle 



11. Their bodies in their life's journey, 



12. They shall enable themselves to live to see old age as they travel 



the path of life. 



