go TRUE STORIES OF THE HEAVENLY BEINGS. 
21. THE BOY WHO WAS GIVEN POWER TO CALL THE BUFFALO. 
(See Abstracts.) 
- [Told by Thief, a Kitkehahki. The interest in this tale is chiefly in the lesson 
which it is supposed to convey, viz, that the gods of the heavens watch over the 
pregnant woman and protect the new-born child from harm and disease. The 
relating in the tale of the deeds of the young man who delivers his pees from 
hunger, overcomes the enemy, and slays the monsters, furnishes of course the 
characteristic features of a hero tale. The connection of this story with the bundle 
is through the fact that the north wind, who assisted him in his search for food, 
ultimately gave him a bundle, and it is believed that through the rites enacted 
during the performance of the bundle ceremony the gods are moved to render 
similar assistance. Two additional versions of the tale are presented in Nos. 22 
and 23.] 
22. THE SON OF WIND, READY-TO-GIVE." 
The people were preparing to leave their permanent village and go 
on a buffalo hunt. While the women were putting their corn and squash 
into the cache holes and stopping them up, they saw that one of the 
most beautiful young girls of the village, who was helping them, was preg- 
nant. She had kept her secret to herself for a long time, though she 
could not understand it, for she knew that she had not been with any 
man. When it was known, her uncles scolded her and tried to make 
her tell what man she had been with, but the girl would not say any- 
thing. Her father scolded her and drove her and her mother and the 
grandmother out of the lodge, saying that he would have nothing more 
to do with womankind. It was noised through the village that these 
people were outcasts and that nobody should have anything to do with 
them. 
The people started upon their buffalo hunt, leaving these three women 
alone in the deserted village. They put up a grass-lodge to live in, and 
then went to several cache holes and opened them up and took corn and 
squash. After a few months the girl gave birth to a male child. The 
day that the child was born there was a great wind from the north. When 
the women found out that the child was a boy they were very thankful. 
The child grew fast and it was not long until he could walk. Then his 
grandmother made him a little bow and some arrows. As he grew older 
the grandmother made a larger bow and arrows. One day the little boy 
went into the timber, and while he was there a voice spoke to him and 
said: ‘‘My son, Iam glad to see you. I am your father. From this 
Told by Yellow-Bird, the Chaui leader of the Buffalo Society, who died in 
1904. This is the Chaui version of tale No. 21, and this tale, it is said, was told on 
former occasions during the performance of a Chaui bundle ceremony. 
