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Inyan, and ye trees, assist us greatly that we may find our way 

 homeward. 



Fire is sacred to Inyan; therefore, under the shadow of the 

 great rock they built one of dry sticks and gathered a heap of 

 fagots to keep the blaze going until far into the night. Then 

 alternately they said, "We will make a feast and dance to 

 Grandfather Inyan, and so he shall help us." 



"After they had eaten they combed their hair, greasing it with 

 pieces of goose fat which Zintkala had saved, and then braided 

 and tied their tresses becomingly. 



After a reasonable time, by the light of the fire they had built 

 to him, they gave a sacred dance to Grandfather Inyan and his 

 protecting pines. Upon a little plat of level ground, facing a 

 broad scrap of the rock, and embowered in dark-topped ever- 

 greens, these little brown children danced. 



The girl, with close drawn-blanket, with rapt face and serious 

 air, performed her part in measured, dainty movements, danc- 

 ing with her toes turned inward. 



The boy, with less grace, but no less reverent face, sprang 

 lightly from foot to foot, chanting low ejaculations of prayer. 



Had the rock and the trees, sheltering their small circle of 

 light and their brown swaying figures, possessed the ears, hearts 

 and powers attributed to them, they must have moved even 

 their roots to respond to the appeals for pity which these lost 

 and revering waifs addressed to them. 



When they had danced until they were weary they stretched 

 themselves, tightly rolled in their blankets, upon the sands, and 

 with renewed trust in the future, fell asleep." — (Pp. 112-114.) 



THE STORY OF NO-HEART 



(By permission of the Author) 



(From "My Life as an Indian," by J. W. Schultz) 



This story of No-Heart gives a realistic and kindly pic- 

 ture of life in an Indian village. The heroine, a young 

 girl nearing womanhood, had been caught with her family 

 in a terrible thunderstorm. When it was over all were 



