THE POOR BOY WHO LOST HIS POWER. 177 
Then the woman turned around and said: ‘‘Turn to an eagle!’ Then 
the boy sang again and said: ‘“‘My aunt, my head shall turn into an eagle’s 
head.’’ Then he sang again and said: ‘‘My aunt, my nose shall turn into 
an eagle’s nose.’”’ Then he sang again and said: ‘‘My mouth shall turn 
into an eagle’s mouth.’’ Then, as he sang, ‘‘My aunt, I shall fly up asan 
eagle,’’ the woman turned around with her stick, ready to strike the boy; 
but he turned into an Eagle, threw off the robe, and flew up into the sky. 
The woman cried and begged the boy to come back. The Eagle 
would not come back, but did not go far away. It stayed around where 
the woman was. The woman cried and cried, but the Eagle would say: 
“‘T will not come down, for you were mean tome.’’ Then the Eagle would 
fly away, and when it came back it would tell the old woman that the 
people were coming. At last the old woman begged the Eagle so hard 
that it came back to her and turned into a boy again. The boy was 
_ older and was stronger than he was before he turned into aneagle. The 
woman had made a bow and arrows for him and was always careful not 
to scold him again. The boy took the bow and arrows and went into 
the timber to hunt. He killed rabbits and brought them to his aunt. 
After a while he learned to kill deer. Then he said: ‘‘My aunt, you must 
make me a strong bow and better arrows.’’ The woman made them and 
the boy killed many deer, so that after a while the woman made a tipi out 
of the deer hides. She dried the meat and they had plenty toeat. When 
the people came with very little buffalo meat they found these people 
with plenty of meat and corn. 
When the people came to the village the young man told his aunt 
that they must move into the timber and stay. They moved into the 
timber and the young man kept killing game. After a while the people 
visited this tipi and they found meat and dry hides around it. The chief 
was told about it. The chief invited the young boy and said: ‘‘Can 
you help us to get buffalo, so that we may also have meat’”’ The boy 
said that he could; then he went back to his tipi. He told his aunt that 
he was going to see the chief’s daughter. She said nothing, for fear she 
might hurt his feelings. The young man disappeared as an Eagle and 
was gone several days. When he came back he said to his aunt: “‘I am 
going to take the people over the hills, for 1 have brought the buffalo for 
them. They will bring some meat back with them.” The young man 
went and told the chief that he wanted the people to follow him over the 
hills. The chief told the people to go and so they followed him, and 
when they went on top of the hills they saw many buffalo. The people 
killed many buffalo and took the meat home. The boy was then told 
to tell his aunt to move his tipi up into the village. The young man told 
the chief that he could not do this, but that if they wanted to they could 
