26 TRUE STORIES OF THE HEAVENLY BEINGS. 
that the men and boys were enjoying the game of ring and sticks. The 
young man went back to his lodge, sat down west of the fireplace, and told 
his mother to get the bundle that was on top of the sacred bundle and 
place it in front of him. The young man then told his father in a whisper 
to tell the people in this lodge to leave it. The people all left the lodge. 
Then the young man told his father to go and invite the chief. The chief 
cameinto the lodge andsat bytheboy. The boy said: ‘‘Chief, through 
my advice our people came to this place. Mother-Moon spoke to me in 
my dreams, telling me that our people should come to this place. She 
promised me in my dreams that she would give certain things to the peo- 
ple. Some of the things our people are enjoying, and yet some of them 
are complaining. Now itis time that we kill buffalo. This is what Mother- 
Moon has givenus.’” He opened the bunch of hair and said: ‘*The gods 
have given us many buffalo. This day our people shall kill them. The 
skin of the first buffalo that they kill must be taken off. The head must 
be placed upon a high hill, and the meat brought to this lodge.”’ The 
chief then stood up, passed his hands over the boy, and said: ‘‘My son, 
you cried upon these hills for many days and nights. The people and 
myself made fun of you, but now I understand why you didthis. Let 
the first buffalo come and I will select men to killthem. All that you 
have said shall be done.’”’ The chief sat down, then sent for his crier. 
The crier came and the chief told him to tell the people in the village 
to put away their sticks and the basket game and to keep still. When the 
crier came, he said, ‘‘Chief, I have told the people what you told me to tell 
them.’’ ‘The chief then told the crier to go and tell four men to come to 
the lodge where he was. The young man thencame intothe lodge. The 
chief told the young man to instruct the men as to what they should do, 
for they were ready to go with him to kill the buffalo. The young man 
sent one of the four men into the timber for a long willow. The willow 
was brought and peeled and at one end the young man tied the feather. 
The bunch of buffalo hair was placed upon the bundle again, and the 
young man led the four men out of the lodge and they went to their lodges 
to get their bows and arrows. The whole village was quiet, for every- 
body was now watching the young man. The four men came with their 
bows and arrows and the young man started toward the cave. Half-way 
between the cave and the village he stopped and stuck the stick, that had 
the feather on, into the ground. He told the men to look toward the hill: 
After a while they saw a buffalocoming. He told them to circle round 
the buffalo and kill it. The men circled around and crawled up to the 
buffalo and shot it with their bows and arrows. After a while the buffalo 
fell and died. Then the men skinned it and took the head off and placed 
