38 TRUE STORIES OF THE HEAVENLY BEINGS. 
shall join them. Then your sister and brother will join us, so that there 
will be ten stars instead of seven stars.’’ (These people in the heavens 
are what is known as the Pleiades.) ‘‘When the world comes to an 
end then I shall join my sons. My daughter will also join us, but while 
we live upon this earth we shall be known as great warriors. Although 
we are birds, we are warriors. We are the Hawks.” 
6. HOW EVENING-STAR’S DAUGHTER WAS OVERCOME.’ 
A long time ago the people had their village near a big stream of water 
somewhere in the east. The gods in the heavens came down upon the 
earth in the west and each god gathered his animals, and then they began 
to build an earth-lodge upon the earth. Evening-Star sent her daughter 
to rule over the lodge. She also sent her four gods in the west and these 
gods were to keep guard over the girl, for she brought a rains-wrapped- 
up bundle. Evening-Star, being the spouse of Morning-Star, kept the 
things of Morning-Star in the bundle. Among the things belonging to 
Morning-Star was the war club. The different stars which stand in the 
heavens as gods were sent down to be stationed in certain places in the 
lodge according to their stations in the heavens. The spaces between 
them were to be filled by different animals. Evening-Star wanted 
women to be higher than men, and so she sent her daughter to kill off all 
young men who came to her, so that all women would do the same and 
SO Overcome men. 
When the people of the eastern village saw the new earth-lodge in the 
west, they wondered who lived there. They watched the people in the 
west and tried to go to visit them, but the people in the west would not 
have anything to do with the people in the east. Several young men had 
gone to the place and had seen the girl, and had tried to marry her, but 
before they could get to the mud-lodge they were always killed. 
In the east village was a poor boy. As he grew up he wandered over 
the country. One night while he was sitting upon the hill a strange man 
stood before him. This strange man was painted red all over, and upon 
his leggings were hanging scalps and eagle feathers. His moccasins were 
of buffalo hide with the hair inside. He carried a club on his arm and 
spoke to the boy, thus: ‘‘My boy, you shall see me again. Take this 
1Told by Big-Crow, a Skidi, the keeper of the Big-Black-Meteoric-Star bundle, 
whose grandfather, Big-Knife, a Skidi brave, performed several sacrifices of human 
maidens to the Morning-Star, and who was stopped by the whites in a similar cere- 
mony in 1832. This tale, told only during the intermission of a ceremony, teaches 
the necessity of the Morning-Star sacrifice by pointing out the advantage which 
the young man gained by conquering a certain maiden with the Morning-Star’s 
assistance. 
