HOW THE WITCH-WOMAN WAS KILLED. I1I7 
village site. It was now dusk. When he entered the village site the 
voices came up from everywhere. The grass, the weeds, the insects, 
tipi poles, all shouted and sang: 
“‘Here comes the son of White-Moccasins. 
He was carried away froma village by the Witch-Woman, 
This is truly the child of White-Moccasins.’’ 
The boy lay down and he heard the singing all around. It was kept 
up all through the night. The next day he followed the trail. If there 
was anything dropped by the people, a feather, a moccasin, a piece of 
sinew, a piece of an arrow, all these things sang the song he had heard 
at the village site. For many days the boy traveled west until at last 
he saw a village. When he came to the village everything seemed to 
sing about the child of White-Moccasins. As soon as the boy went into 
the village the people said: ‘‘ Here comes the child of White-Moccasins.”’ 
_ The chief took him into his tipi and asked him where he came from and 
who he was. When White-Moccasins found out that his son had arrived 
at the village he went to the tipi of the chief and demanded the boy. 
The chief said: ‘‘This boy is now in my tipi. He shall be my son, for 
I see that he has great powers.’’ The boy said: ‘‘I can not do that, for 
I know that my father is living. The Crow was first to tell me of him. 
The Hawk led me to the village site from where I was stolen, and there 
everything sang of my father, White-Moccasins. The insects, the grass, 
the weeds, the trees, all sang to me of my father who was called White- 
Moccasins, and told me that I was his child. I shall go with my father.”’ 
The chief said: ‘‘I do not mean that you shall be my son and remain 
with me, but I have adaughter who is old enough to be the wife of some- 
one. I call you my son because I want you to be my son-in-law.”’ The 
boy said: ‘‘I can not do that, for I am too young.” The boy told the 
people that on his journey he had picked up a clam shell, and that it 
had told him that the Witch-Woman had put it in the village in her 
place. He told them how he had taken the clam shell and placed it in 
the stream of water. The boy went back to his father and told him that 
instead of traveling west they would move to the south. 
The boy had discovered that the people were starving, for they had 
not found any buffalo. Through the boy the people found many buf- 
falo. When they had plenty of buffalo meat they talked of return- 
ing to their country. The people went back to their old home. When 
they reached the village the young man sat down in his lodge and invited 
several other young men to go with him on the war-path. Several of the 
young men joined him. He put the buffalo-hair lariat rope about his 
