RADiN] THE MEDICINE DANCE 351 



the human beings. However, we were not even equal in strength to 

 a fly. We were the weakest of all. Then he looked at what he had 

 created and he liked it and sat filled with happy thoughts. 



He was proud of us and gazed again on what he had created. He 

 hiad, however, not made the human beings equal in strength to the 

 others and they were on the point of being destroyed. Then he 

 formed a human being, like ourselves, and when he had finished him, 

 he named him the Foolish-One. "Foolish-One, to the earth you are 

 to go. Weakly (pitiable) , in every respect, I made the human beings. 

 I made them as my last thought. Now this creation of mine, they, 

 the evil spirits, are likely to injure, so do you, O Foolish-One, go and 

 put things in order." 



Then he sent him to the earth, but when he came on earth he did 

 not do what he had been told. He went around the earth and ac- 

 complished nothing. (As useless) as a child crawling on all fours 

 he was. He really amounted to nothing. Though sent by Earth- 

 maker, he amounted to nothing. He did no good and injured the 

 creation of Earthmaker, so Earthmaker took him back and had him 

 sit at the right of his own seat. 



Then he made another (man) and when he was finished called him 

 the Turtle. "The two-legged walkers (human beings) whom I cre- 

 ated as the last of my thoughts, (evil spirits) are about to exterminate 

 Do you go and put the earth in order." Turtle went and (took along) 

 a knife that he had been given. When he came on earth he led people 

 on the warpath, but he did not look after the (welfare) of (Earth- 

 maker's) creation. Earthmaker therefore took back the second man, 

 too, and placed him on his left side. 



Then he made a third (man) , and when he finished him, he named 

 him Bladder, and said, "You are to go to the earth. As my last 

 thought, I created the two-legged walkers and they were pitiful in 

 every way. They are now about to be exterminated and you are to 

 rescue them. Try with all your strength." 



When he came on earth he made a long lodge and created twenty 

 men. That many younger brothers he had. Then they all started 

 to go aroimd this entire island and all the yoimger brothers were 

 killed. Thus he failed in his mission. The work his father had sent 

 him to do, he failed in, so (Earthmaker) took him back and placed 

 him on his left side. 



Then he made a fourth (man) and when he finished he named him 

 He-who-wears-human-heads-as-earrings. 



Then he made the last one. Hare, his body just like ours. "You 

 are the last one I am going to create, so try with all your strength, 

 Hare, try." He-who-wears-human-heads-as-earrings, the fourth one, 

 failed. He therefore took him back. Hare was the last that Earth- 

 maker, our father, wished to create. He (had created) him entirelj- 

 by the force of his thoughts. 



