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falo were also killed. The Buffalo knew that some of them were made 
holy and that the smoke offering had been made. 
Again they sent many Buffalo, and they were all killed and many were 
made holy. Again a big drove of Buffalo was sent and among them was 
the girl with her husband. After she saw how the smoke offering was 
made over the dead Buffalo, they went back to the Buffalo village and the 
girl told her father what she had seen. The Buffalo were glad, and they 
sent a big drove of Buffalo. The people killed many. The Buffalo were 
glad of the smoke offering, so the bulls all agreed to lead their people 
toward the people, and this is the way the Buffalo scattered over the 
country. 
This is why a woman must wear the elk dress during the ceremony, as 
did the Buffalo woman who came to the boy, when her husband makes a 
Buffalo holy. The people killed buffalo bulls twice, and twice did they 
kill buffalo cows. This is why we have four leading bundles and four 
particular posts in the medicine-lodge. This also is why, when the peo- 
ple made the eagle feather holy, they placed the feather upon the knoll, 
in imitation of the girl who stood on the knoll when she asked for her 
husband. All these things were taught the people that they might do 
them, so that the Buffalo would come. 
The young man went back with his wife, and they stayed among the 
Buffalo people. For some cause or other, the girl Buffalo made the 
young man mad, for she scolded him and she said that he should always 
be with the Buffalo, but would never marry among them, and he jumped 
up and flew away. He wasa Blackbird, and for this reason the Blackbirds 
like to be in the Buffalo herd. 
59. THE POOR BOY WHO WANTED TO GET MARRIED.’ 
There was a village. On the east side of the village lived an old woman 
with her grandchild. They were very poor. The other people lived in 
fine earth-lodges, while these two lived in a grass-lodge away off from the 
village. When the people went out in the morning, they surrounded 
the grass-lodge and urinated there, and hence it had a bad odor. Every 
day the old woman went through the village begging. In this way they 
kept alive. 
The boy was now very tall. One day he told his grandmother to 
make him a bow and some arrows. The woman made them. The boy 
played with the bow and arrows every day. One day he wandered 
from his lodge and went a short distance to the east where there was a 
1 Told by Cheyenne-Chief, Skidi. This story teaches that no matter how poora 
boy may be, he may, by his own effort and by assistance, become a tribal benefactor. 
