212 TALES OF READY-TO-GIVE. 
Old red painted woman, 
We came here to ask for your daughter. 
We will give you two valleys full of buffalo. 
The woman came out and said: ‘‘No, you can not have my girl.” 
These Buffalo returned home and told the chief of the tribe what Red- 
Spider-Woman had said. The chief said: ‘‘I will select four more to go 
down there and they will also ask for tobacco for our people.”’ So four 
more Buffalo were selected. They went down and when they were close 
to the lodge of Red-Spider-Woman they began to sing: 
Old red painted woman, 
We came to ask for your daughter and tobacco. 
We will give you half a land full of buffalo. 
Red-Spider-Woman came out and said: ‘‘The tobacco you can not 
have; neither can you have my daughter for the amount of Buffalo you 
have promised me.’’ These Buffalo returned home and told the chief 
of the tribe what Red-Spider-Woman had said. The chief said: ‘‘I will 
select four more to go down there and they will also ask for tobacco for 
our people.’’ So four more Buffalo were selected. They went down, 
and when they were close to the lodge of Red-Spider-Woman they began 
to sing: — 
Old red painted woman, 
We came to ask for your daughter and tobacco. 
We will give you a land full of buffalo. 
The Buffalo went back and reported to the chief that Red-Spider- 
Woman had refused to give them either tobacco or the girl. The chief 
became angry and said: ‘‘ Buffalo, we will now move down to where this 
Red-Spider-Woman is.’’ All of the Buffalo moved forward and they 
began to travel south. For many years they traveled, and at last they 
came to the place where Red-Spider-Woman had her lodge. Curly-Eyes 
ran to the lodge, took out his girl, and the other Buffalo went and took 
away the other girls. They trampled her fields and her lodge. The 
woman ran and stood upon the prairie. She began to disappear and go 
into the ground. The Buffalo tried to kill her, but they could not. As 
she was about to disappear in the ground the Buffalo began to trample 
her and they killed her. She had just disappeared as she was killed. 
The chief of the Buffalo then said: ‘‘Red-Spider-Woman, you shall 
always remain under the ground. You had many powers. The root 
into which you have now turned will always have the shape of a human 
person. You will have curative powers and the people will dig you up 
for medicine.” 
