94 TRUE STORIES OF THE HEAVENLY BEINGS. 
made upon the skull, and they will know that their spirit is to dwell in the 
buffalo skull. Then you must skin the head of the buffalo bull and take 
only the skull to your home. Place the skull upon some high hill until 
the flesh is gone and nothing but bone is left. Then take theskull and 
place it west and outside of the lodge, but when you are inside the earth- 
lodge place the skull on the west side of the lodge under the bundle 
When you have ceremonies place the skull to the north side of the fire- 
place, so that when the people are making offerings to the gods they will 
always remember to make a separate offering to the god who stands in 
the north, and who is always ready to send the people something to eat. 
I shall always dwell in the skull, for you now know that Iam the Wind.” 
For many months Ready-to-Give remained, teaching his son the cere- 
monies of the bundle. In the fall Ready-to-Give saw that the women 
and boy had plenty of meat, corn, squash, and beans to eat; then he said: 
‘‘Winter is now coming and I must go away to my place. The people 
are now thinking of returning to this place. Have nothing to do with 
your uncles, for they left you behind to die.”’ 
One of the hunters made up his mind to go to the deserted village, 
for his children were starving, and he intended to open one of the cache 
holes to get some corn. The boy had been away from their place hunt- 
ing. When he came back with some meat he said: ‘‘Mother, there is 
aman coming toward our camp. He is from our people.’’ The women 
said, ‘‘How do you know?” and the boy said, ‘‘My father told me.”’ 
Several days afterwards the boy told the women to watch, that the 
man was coming to their place. The women watched and sure enough 
they saw a man coming over the hills. He hunted around through 
the village looking for the cache holes, but he could not find any. He 
climbed one of the lodges, sat upon the top, and looked over the country. 
He saw the smoke coming up from the timber, came down from the 
lodge, and walked down to the place where the smoke was coming from. 
When he came the women met him. He was not one of their relatives, 
so they took him in, gave him something to eat, and when he was filled 
he said: ‘‘Women, who are you? Where did all these things come 
from which I see around here?’’ The women said, ‘‘Our son kills 
buffalo and that is why we have plenty of meat.’’ The women then 
told the man that they were the women who were made outcasts on 
account of the girl’s condition. The man remembered. The boy was 
sent for. He came into the tipi and sat down. The man looked at him 
and he could see that the young boy had mysterious powers. He had a 
soft downy eagle feather stuck in his hair. His eyes looked strange. 
The boy said: ‘‘I am very sorry that the people left my people behind, 
