THE BUFFALO WIFE AND THE DISPERSION OF THE BUFFALO. 205 
All you people in camp there. 
Get wide awake all of you. 
We shall see which one of you 
Brought me down stream as his wife, 
Brought me down stream as his wife. 
Yonder we came, brought me down stream as his wife. 
You spoke and said, 
I have standing at my place a gray horse. 
You brought me down stream as your wife, 
You brought me down stream as your wife. 
Yonder we came, when you brought me down stream as your wife. 
Old Claw-Shield Coyote awoke and heard the girl singing, and said: 
‘Old woman, that girl means me. You must not get jealous. Now 
listen. The girl sings and says that I ride a white horse. I must go and 
get my white horse, and I shall go out and get the girl and bring her to 
our tipi.’”’ The old man jumped upon his gray horse and went out. He 
asked the girl to come to his tipi, but the girl didnot notice him. The boy 
was not in the village, so the girl went on to another village and there she 
stood on the north side again and sang. The young men came out. She 
sang as before. 
Coyote had tried to fool the girl at the other village and failed. He 
got a number of cockle burrs and placed them upon the gray horse, and 
jumped on it so that the horse would prance because of the cockle burrs 
pricking it, and followed the girl to the next village. When Coyote rode 
up to where the girl was the handsome young boy was already there upon 
his white horse. Coyote went away angry and embarrassed. The 
handsome young man took the girl and placed her behind him on the 
horse’s back. He took her to his tipi and they went into the tipi and sat 
down. The young man told his people to place corn before the girl for 
her to eat. The girl ate the corn. The people noticed that she had an 
elk dress on. After they had eaten, the young man took the girl upon 
his pony again and they went west to the Buffalo camp. They reached 
the Buffalo camp in the night. The girl jumped off from the pony and 
went to her father and said, ‘‘Father, I am married.” 
The father was glad. He then sent for the old Buffalo and the young 
man filled his pipe with native tobacco, and gave each Buffalo a whiff 
of smoke. The old Buffalo decided that eight of the Buffalo should be 
sent to the people. The eight Buffalo were sent to the people and they 
were all killed. When the Buffalo were killed, they were made holy and 
smoke offerings were made over their meat. The Buffalo were glad of 
this, and that night many more Buffalo went to the people. These Buf- 
