THE POOR BOY WHO WANTED TO GET MARRIED. 211 
Three times the boy brought the buffalo himself and the fourth time 
he led them out to the red hills. He stood upon the hill, waved his robe, 
and the buffalo came out from the sides of the hills. The people made 
a big killing and were satisfied. The people now had plenty of meat. 
After this the buffalo became numerous throughout the land, and the peo- 
ple did not need anybody to call the buffalo. The boy and the old woman 
went to live in the chief’s lodge. The boy never married any of. the 
other sisters, but remained with the youngest. They had many children: 
60. THE BUFFALO AND RED-SPIDER-WOMAN’S DAUGHTER. ' 
Many years ago Red-Spider-Woman was at the center of the earth. 
She had many children, nearly all girls. She and her daughters raised 
corn, squash, beans, and tobacco. At this time the Buffalo were all in 
the north. The chief of the Buffalo people had a son whose name was 
_Curly-Eyes. One day the chief held a council with his Buffalo, and it 
was decided in the council that there should be four Buffalo selected 
to go south to look over the country, for the Buffalo selected wanted to 
go to some other place. Among the four selected was Curly-Eyes. 
The four Buffalo started south. When they came to the center of 
the land they found Red-Spider-Woman and her daughters. Curly-Eyes 
saw one of the girls and he fell in love with her. Red-Spider-Woman 
went into her fields and cut some tobacco and gave it to the Buffalo. The 
Buffalo went back to their country in the north. 
When they arrived there Curly-Eyes spoke to his father and said: 
‘‘We saw a woman with tobacco. She gave some of it to us. She has 
several girls. I love one of them and I want to marry her.” The father 
said: ‘‘There is but one way for you to do, and that is for you to pay 
for her,so that we can bring her here. Then you can be married to her.”’ 
So the Buffalo chief selected four more Buffalo to send to Red-Spider- 
Woman. When these four Buffalo came near the grass-lodge of Red- 
Spider-Woman they began to sing: 
Old red painted woman, 
We came here to ask for your dhignter 
We will give one valley full of buffalo. 
The old woman came out and said, ‘‘ You can not have the girl for one 
bottom-land full of Buffalo.’’ Then the Buffalo returned home. The 
chief of the Buffalo, when he heard about this, said: ‘‘ We will offer her 
more.” Then the chief sent four other Buffalo and they went down to 
where the woman lived. When they came near to the lodge of Red- 
Spider-Woman they began to sing: 
1Told by White-Sun, Kitkehahki. The tale explains the dispersion of the 
buffalo. 
