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in the valley.’’ When Coming-Sun looked he saw some warriors driv- 
ing ponies. The voice said: ‘‘Run as fast as you can and head them 
off.’’ Coming-Sun ran down, and just as he was close to them the war- 
riors drove their ponies into the ravine and disappeared. Then Coming- 
Sun went back to the hill and cried. The voice spoke to him again. 
He looked, and there was the mysterious being, who said: ‘‘You can 
not run. This time I want you to do your best to head off some of the 
people who are coming. Look,” he said, ‘‘they are coming.’’ Coming- 
Sun looked, and there was a great crowd of warriors coming with long 
poles with scalps upon them. Coming-Sun ran, and before he caught 
up with them they disappeared into the ravine. 
Coming-Sun returned to the hill and continued to cry. It was 
nearly morning when the mysterious being came to him and said: ‘‘I 
will make myself known to you. I am Foot-Prints-upon-Bank-of- 
River. Have you no bag of medicine about you?’’ Coming-Sun said 
that he had not. The man said: “Why, look at me; I am a wonderful 
being; I am North-Wind, I am all kinds of birds, I am also all kinds of 
animals; even the grass and the trees; and here I carry a little bag of 
medicine upon my belt. Now,I give you this bag of medicine. I tried 
to make a warrior out of you, but you can not head off the warriors. 
I then tried to give you many ponies, but you could not head them off. 
I then tried to help you scalp the enemy, but you could not head them 
off. I will make you a medicine-man, and make you brave so that you 
can count coup on your enemy. Whenever you join a war party it 
will be successful, for you are among them and you have seen these 
things that I have shown you, but you can never be a leading warrior. | 
Go to your home, for it is now daylight. Hereafter I shall visit you at 
night. Take this downy feather and wear it upon your head. When 
you want to call the buffalo put this downy feather upon a pole, and set 
the pole in the direction where you want the buffalo to come from.”’ 
Coming-Sun became a great man. He invited his brothers and told 
them where to go to capture ponies. They went, and he went with 
them, and whatever he told them came true. He prophesied many 
things and they came true. The mysterious being visited Coming-Sun 
each night, and each time brought him some things that were wonder- 
ful. One night he brought some buzzard feathers. If the enemy found 
the people, they were to stick the buzzard feathers on their heads in a 
circle, and the company of warriors were to stand in a circle and great 
clouds of dust were to rise, and they were to be covered up and hidden, 
so that the enemy would not find them. When the people saw the 
powers that Coming-Sun had, they asked him to call the buffalo. He 
