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ning struck the ground; then each went where the stone was placed and 
made a prayer. The father was the first to go to the stone. He spoke 
and said: ‘Father, yonder lies my daughter. You took her life. I will 
not cry, forin place of my beautiful daughter you came, and are now in 
her place in my heart. You are from the heavens and have taken my 
daughter. Keep the power that you had while you were in the heavens. 
Give me and teach me your powers, for from this time on you shall be 
my father.”” Then the man left and the other people came and talked to 
the stone. After all this the lodge was swept and the people washed 
themselves. After the lightning struck the girl the clouds disappeared 
and the sun shone brightly. 
The next day the father invited his male relatives and told them that 
the lightning had struck his daughter. He told them that it was not a 
flint, but was an object the shape of ahuman body. The men sat around 
_in a circle while the girl was laid out where she had been killed. The 
father told the other men that he did not know whether to take the stone 
and bury it with the girl or to keep it at the altar in the lodge. The pipe 
was filled and given to one of the men. The man lighted the pipe, then 
arose, walked to the stone, and blew a few whiffs to it and said: ‘‘ Father, 
smoke; you shall be one of us; you have taken one of our daughters, but 
we know you are from the heavens and have great powers. You shall 
remain with us.” After smoking, the man passed the pipe on. He then 
took the stone and passed it over the body of the girl; then placed it 
again inits place. Every time a pipe was smoked, the ashes were placed 
before the stone. After the smoking was over, each man reached and 
lifted the stone. Although it was small it was very heavy, and so they 
called it ‘‘iron stone.” 
The people began to make preparations to bury the girl. She was 
taken up on a high hill and a grave about two feet deep was dug. Two 
forks were set at the head and foot of the grave. A pole was then laid in 
the forks. Poles were then set upon each side and the girl was set inside. 
Grass was placed on each side, then dirt. The father talked to the peo- 
ple and said: ‘‘I do not mourn, for I believe that the gods in the heavens 
favored my girl and that they have taken her. Let us go home and 
think that the gods have taken her.’”’ The people all went home, but 
the father stayed around the grave and at last went to sleep. 
In a dream he saw his daughter. She stood up and he saw a bright 
star upon her forehead. Her hair was plaited smoothly, and on the back 
of her head were eleven eagle feathers all strung together so that they 
looked like a moon. The girl spoke to her father and said: **My father, 
the gods have favored me; I am now staying by the moon. I am not 
