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father. “And the arrowheads, I’ll seek them so I may have arrow- 
heads. [’ll tell you just how you should make the arrowheads for me, 
which I shall use,” he said to his father. ‘All right,” he was 
answered willingly. 
And after the bow was made for the boy, “I shall be gone for four 
days,”’ he said to his father. “ In four days I will come back,” he said 
to him. “All right,” he was answered. 
And then he was actually seen going into a cliff from whence water 
was shooting out. He went in to visit a manitou who was there. To 
be sure he came back after four days. He brought four very fine 
arrowheads. Then he narrated: “It is said, we must go yonder, 
wherever Missouri joins the Mississippi, to make our town. It is said 
at that place is where we shall live healthily,” he said. “It is said 
at that place is where we will be blessed. At this place, I do not 
know that the manitou will bless us very much. But when we come 
to that place, there will be a manitou who will give us everything. 
He shall not only give it to one person, but (shall give it to) all. He 
will continue to give it to the people. Now right here I have been 
over personally to get these arrowheads, although I do not know if 
there is any person who could get them for himself. Very probably 
he could not, for the door looks too strong. But at that place, any- 
one at all could get something. That has been told to me. And at 
that place alone is where I can see a light,” he told the people. 
And the people did not know what things were called Missouri and 
Mississippi River; they did not know what they were. And then it is 
said in ten days, “I declare! how can it be that you don’t know them,” 
he said to them. ‘The manitous themselves know them to be called 
by those names. It is surely so. Well, I’ll go again to the place of 
the manitous, and I will be diligent to inquire very closely what things 
are called that. But I will be gone again the same length of time; I 
will be gone four days,” said that boy. 
He did just so. He went away, going into the same place. Then, 
it is said, when he came back, he brought with him a diagram painted 
in red and one painted in green. ‘“‘ Here are these diagrams,” he said 
to his father. ‘“‘ You show them to them.”’ 
Then, it is said, only the men gathered. The boy spoke, ‘‘ Now, I 
have been diligent in this. Here they are written out; here is the 
Missouri, and here is the Mississippi River drawn in green. You 
personally see these which the manitous themselves drew. I did not 
draw this. 
