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anything. With this I bless you (this herb), and no one else in the 

 world will know it.'" 



This is what Dog-Head told Small-Snake: "As long as your pos- 

 terity lasts, so long can you use this medicine. If I had given you 

 clothes, when they were worn out, that would be the end of them. 

 Your father spoke to me in your behalf and that is why I am giving 

 you this medicine." Dog-Head told the truth, for even to the 

 present day this medicine is being used. It is a purgative and a val- 

 uable medicine. 



When the Winnebago returned the possessor of the medicine 

 was careless and placed it in a hole in a cliff. When he came back 

 for it it could not be found. He looked all over for it but it was 

 apparently gone. Then they said, "We should not have done this. 

 We should look before acting." Indeed, nowhere did they ever 

 find it afterwards. 



Now, it is four generations since the Shawnee prophet prophesied, 

 and from that time there have been many prophets among us, as he 

 is said to have told the people. Many have prophesied, but none 

 have told anything that seemed reasonable. The Shawnee prophet 

 was good, but those who have come after him have prophesied so 

 that people might praise them, or just for the sake of talking. 



It is said that the Shawnee prophet said that there would come a 

 time when a woman would prophesy and that she should be imme- 

 diately killed. The end of the world would be near then. Then he 

 is said to have said that a little boy would prophesy and that one 

 was to give ear to what he said. 



The Peyote people claim that their ceremony is the fulfillment of 

 this prophesy and that it is true. The Shawnee prophet had said that 

 there would be springs of water in front of the people's lodges and 

 it is so at the present time, for the water is at our very doors. His 

 prophesy was correct and he told the truth. Then he said that 

 trees would travel and this is happening to-day, for trees are loaded 

 into trains and are carried all around the country. He told the 

 truth and he knew what was going to happen. He said that one day 

 we would be able to write our own language and we are doing that 

 to-day, for we have a Bible in Winnebago and we are able to write 

 to one another in our own language. All these things he was able to 

 foretell four generations ago. 



A Winnebago by the name of Noise-Thunder had also prophesied 

 that we would be able to write our own language. One thing that 

 he said, however, was not correct. He said that the bad thing that 

 has come upon us will make us forget our own ways. He meant 

 that we should not take up with the white man's ways. "Don't do 

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