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be a chief. Then let us stay away from our people and we will have a 
tribe of our own. These people will increase and we will teach them 
our language and our ceremonies. Will you, my brothers, do this?’’ 
The chief’s son arose, took both of the poor boy’s hands and said: “I 
like you more than a brother. I looked for you when we were boys and 
played around our village. What you have said I willdo. We will stay 
away from our people and I will carry on the ceremonies, and the gods 
in the heavens shall receive the smoke from the scalps that we have 
taken.’’ The poor boy then arose and said, “I thank you, my brother, 
for your friendly words. The gods overhead have heard your words and 
they will be glad when the scalps are placed upon the fire and the smoke 
goes straight up to heaven. Now,’ he continued, ‘‘what do you say, 
my brother? Will you also make my heart glad?’’ The medicine-man 
arose and said: “Iam willing. Welike you. I shall teach these people 
to do wonders in the medicine-man’s mysteries and alsoshall teach them 
the ceremony and songs of the medicine-man. Then I shall teach them 
the different herbs and roots and what they are good for.’’ The poor 
' boy clasped both of the young men’s hands, and said: ‘‘My brothers, 
my heart is filled with gladness. I can not speak to you of what is in 
my heart.’’ He began to cry, and the two men could not speak, for they 
too were weeping. The night was clear and the stars shone bright in 
the sky. The three young men wiped their tears away and sat down, 
and the poor young man filled the pipe and they smoked together. The 
poor young man then said: ‘‘Look, my brothers, the stars are bright 
and they seem to speak to us as if they promised us success. Let us 
always remember that the gods in the heavens watch over us.”’ They 
talked a long time and at last they arose and went down to the village. 
The next morning the three young men sat in the tipi of the poor 
young chief. They agreed that the chief should take some of the young 
men in the village and go north to their old village and get seeds from 
the fields of their people. In a few days the poor boy chief selected 
some of the young men, and they started north to where their peo- 
ple had their corn-fields. It wasin the fall of the year. The village 
had been deserted by the people. The men found some corn in the 
fields and picked up beans and squash seeds. They then started back 
to their new home. In the spring the people planted corn, beans, and 
squash. The chief’s son got things together to make a sacred bundle. 
In the fall he went into the corn-field and found a white ear of corn 
with a tassel on top of it. He took this ear of corn to his tipi. Early 
in the spring a ceremony was performed and the corn and other 
things that were gathered were put in a wrapper and a bundle was 
