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give a silver medal to the principal chief. At length, on the morrow, the white men 
came in sight. The wagons came and stood outside of the camp. The principal 
white man sat before them. And all the Pawnees went outside of the camp. And 
the four white men were approaching. And the principal white man said as follows: 
“Go and seek him whom we promised to make a great man.” And the white men 
were seeking him among those who were in the line of the middle-aged and aged men. 
They returned to their leader. “Why! O leader, we did not find him,” said they. “Fie! 
as you saw him at the very first, you probably know him. Ho! Come, go again and 
seek him,” said the white man who was the leader. 
And the Orphan put on his robe. He also had his bow. He stood among the 
young men, And when the white men finished looking at the line of the elder men, 
they departed towards the young men, to look among them. At length they found him. 
When they said, “This one is he,” they went back to tell it. When they saw the 
Orphan, they went back to tell it. “That is he, I think,” said one. “Ho! leader, he is 
there,” said they on their arrival. All the white men went thither, being on seats in 
the wagons; they had the medal, and the robe too. They approached and stood there. 
The principal white man said as follows: ‘‘ We, too, are employed, so we have come.” 
He promised to tell something to their superior (the President). ‘He has promised to 
make one man head-chief, therefore we have brought all the things to him. As he 
alone is made a great man, do not be jealous of him. Though, indeed, we have 
brought the things to him, that is just as if it was done for you. Come, go after him. 
Put him in a robe, and bring him back,” said the principal white man. Four went for 
the Orphan. They went to the rear for him. Putting him ina robe, they departed with 
him. Every one of the chiefs was displeased. The white men made the Orphan sit in the 
middle. The principal white man said as follows: “This is the one. Let us make him the 
principal great man. We have brought this for him to wear on his neck.” Having 
gone to the Orphan, he made the latter wear the medal on his neck. “Come, bring 
ye the goods to him,” said the white man. When they brought the wagons to him, 
the different kinds of goods, kettles, guns, in fact all, were placed in piles just before 
the Orphan. The Orphan pulled the tobacco out of one box. Putting his arms around 
all, he stood erect. Having stood erect with his arms around very large pieces of flat 
tobacco, he spoke. ‘Notwithstanding people sometimes ridicule one, they usually 
stop talking. You have been ridiculing me; but it is time for you to stop it.” Having 
taken the tobacco, he was throwing it away to make them scramble for it. He gave 
most of the goods to his wife’s father. His wife’s father was displeased, because they 
did not give him a medal. The Orphan sent them to his lodge with a great many goods 
piled up very high. The white man said as follows: ‘‘ We have been sent here to make 
this one the head-chief. When you are destitute of implements or goods, ask favors of 
him. We will come hither from time to time to perform for him what he may desire.” 
The woman’s father collected her relations. And her relations collected what good 
clothing they had. The chief gave a good horse, the one which he had before, to the 
woman, for the Orphan. When they ceased, they removed the camp.- The Orphan 
ruled the whole village when they removed to hunt the buffalo. The Orphan rode 
horseback with his woman. Yet, when the people knew him very well, they invariably 
talked against him. They surrounded a herd. When they returned from seeing the 
buffaloes, the Orphan promised to take part in surrounding the herd. The woman’s 
