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lodge he saw the man sitting outside. Long-Tongue began to speak aloud 
and said: “Where is the girl that came by here? Sheis mine. I must 
kill her.””. The man paid no attention to Long-Tongue, but Long-Tongue 
kept on talking. All at once the man took hold of his stick, raised it up 
and said, “‘And why do you talk so loud around my place?”” The man 
struck Long-Tongue on the top of the head, and the skull split in two. 
As soon as he removed the stick, however, the two pieces of the skull 
moved together again. The man then took a flint axe and hit one piece 
of the skull and knocked it to the west, and it flew up into the sky and 
became the moon. The man then struck the other piece and it flew up 
in the sky to the east and it became the sun. (That is why we have 
human pictures upon the sun and upon themoon.) The man said: ‘‘My 
girl, come out. Long-Tongue is gone. He will bother you no more. 
Make your home with us. I have some sons who are out on the war-path. 
Only the youngest of the brothers is here with me.’”’ The woman made 
her home with the man and the boy. A few days afterwards seven 
brothers came and they saw the girl. The father told them what had 
happened, then the brothers agreed that the girl should stay with them. 
The youngest brother was chosen to determine what relationship the 
girl should hold to them. He said, ‘‘This woman shall be our sister.”’ 
All the brothers agreed and the woman remained with them as their sister. 
One day the men went into the lodge and opened the bundle. The 
woman saw anearof corninthe bundle. Shesaid: ‘‘Father, let me have 
this ear of corn. Let me put it into the ground, that I may gather more 
corn.” The man would not consent. He said, ‘‘This is from Mother- 
Evening-Star and we can not let it go.’’ But the girl said: “‘My mother 
is Evening-Star. 1 understand how to put this ear into the ground so 
that it will grow and we may have more corn.” Finally the man gave 
his consent and she plantedthecorn. Inthe fallthey had plenty. Again 
in the spring she planted more and the men knew that she would gather 
muchcorn. In the fall the woman showed signs of being pregnant. The 
old man was angry, but when the child was born a man visited these 
people who said, “I am the father of the child.’’? He was North-Star. 
After the people found out that this woman had been with North-Star, 
they asked how it happened. The man said: “I was sitting upon the 
limb as a Red Bird singing. The woman came and while I was singing 
I lay with her.’”’ The woman then remembered seeing a red bird upon 
a limb some time before. Then the man said: ‘My daughter, we shall 
all go away now. You will go north with the child and your husband 
will go to the north and stand there forever. We shall go to the east 
and shall travel west. There the seven brothers will be, and in time I 
