266 THE ORIGIN OF MEDICINE CEREMONIES OR POWER. 
The man awoke. It was nearly morning. He took his pipe, filled 
it, and smoked. He gave a few whiffs to the stone, then laid the pipe 
down and laid his hands upon the stone and said: ‘‘Father, I dreamed 
about you. I saw youasaman. You have told me to go to the Swim- 
ming-Mound. May allthat I saw in my dream come true, for as soon as 
the sun appears I shall move with my family tothe Swimming-Mound. I 
will do as you have said. Father, take pity upon me.” He then took 
his pipe and emptied the ashes by the stone. Then he rubbed his hands 
over it, saying, ‘‘Father, let all these things that I saw last night come 
true.”’ Before the sun was up he roused the women and told them to 
cook some dried meat. The women began to cook, sitting on the east 
side of thelodge. The man sat on the west side with bowed head and 
with the robe wrapped around his legs. When all the people were seated 
around the fireplace the man spoke and said: ‘‘My kinfolk, make 
preparation to move away to the Swimming-Mound upon the Repub- 
lican River. My father has spoken to me in a dream.” The young 
men were told to go and drive the ponies from the hollow in the hills. 
After breakfast the women began to put their things into the cache hole 
near the entrance. Saddles were placed in the hole, having been made 
ready to be put upon the ponies. Nothing was said to any of the other 
people in the lodges. They put their saddles, their meat, corn, tipi, and 
everything they needed upon the ponies’ backs. By daylight they 
started in a southwesterly direction. 
For many days they journeyed until they came to the Republican 
River; then they followed up the river. When they came to the Swim- 
ming-Mound the man told the women to pitch their tipi in the river bot- 
tom. Then he took the stone, folded in his buffalo robe, and went to the 
mound. As he walked up he noticed that there was no wind, but as 
soon as he had made a place upon the hill for the stone the wind began 
to blow up on each side of the mound. The man thought that the 
mound was blowing its breath upon the stone. Then again he thought 
that the animals of the mound were sending the wind to blow off from 
the stone allsmells of the people. The manthen stood up, as he had been 
told todo. Inthe night he heard strange noises coming from the mound. 
It sounded like the rubbing of sticks, and drumming. The man had no 
fear. He stayed all night. By morning the wind ceased. He stayed 
upon the mound all day and neither ate nor drank. 
The second night he again heard strange noises, and whistling. He 
soon heard what sounded like a strong wind. He looked, and there was 
a big drove of elk around the hill. He closed his eyes and said, ‘‘ Father, 
shall I listen to these animals? Are they to give me power?”’ Then he 
