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Who-Never-Dies, for Striped Scalp was very holy. He took the 

 scalp to Big Owl. For helping Big Owl the young man named Black 

 Wolf was given an owl skin to wear in the dances and 10 sacred 

 arrows to protect him on his way home. Big Owl warned him of 

 dangers along the way. After passing four dangerous persons, he 

 met a young woman who lived in Dog Den with her brothers. Big 

 Owl told him that when he told this evil woman of his exploits she 

 would be afraid of him and her brothers would be afraid of the owl 

 skin. 



He met this Woman in Dog Den and she took him inside the butte. 

 Here some of the dogs were fooHsh or crazy; they would take their 

 feet, arms, and even their heads off when they danced. Black Wolf 

 frightened them with the owl skin and they ran out without their 

 limbs. Old-Woman-Who-Never-Dies used her whistle to send a 

 blizzard, and they begged to get back into the butte. When they 

 came in they were afraid of Black Wolf. Black Wolf married this 

 Woman in Dog Den and he knew that she was the daughter of a Hidat- 

 sa woman and White Dog. 



Some time later they returned to Black Wolf's lodge, which was 

 in the same village where Grandson, who established the Stone 

 Hammer society, lived. Black Wolf announced that his wife was a 

 supernatural woman and that she forbad anyone to touch him. One 

 day his brother's wife touched his robe and his wife became angry. 

 Fearing that she would leave the people, they sat up watching her 

 for 4 nights when all fell asleep. Then she returned to Dog Den. 

 He followed her and found the entrance and smokehole had been 

 closed over. 



Later a man in the vUlage announced that he was a dog and that 

 his fathers were the dogs who had lived in Dog Den Butte. He told 

 how his fathers had gone to the sky to make up the dipper. The 

 people would see him looking toward the sky at night and talking 

 to his fathers living above. This Yellow Dog announced that he 

 would organize four societies: Little Dogs, Crazy Dogs, Dog, and Old 

 Dogs. He announced that he would sing the songs that belonged 

 to the Dog society, for they would do most of the fighting for the 

 people in the future. He gave owl feathers to the dog societies 

 to wear during the dances. Then he announced the decorations they 

 should wear and sang the songs of the various dog societies. He 

 told them that these four societies were related but that one must 

 wait until he had reached the proper age before joining. 



At this point in the sacred myths, two versions are given. In one 

 version Grandson becomes angry because Yellow Dog has intercourse 

 with his wife and retaliates by imprisoning the animals in Dog Den. 

 In the other version it is the Sun who imprisoned the animals. In 



