THE MEDICINE-MAN WHO KILLED HIS SON. 311 
The boy drifted downstream. On the one side was the Beaver, and 
the Otter on the other side, the Mink heading the procession. Other 
animals swam behind the body. They came to Pahuk and the boy was 
taken in. He was placed upon the ground in the lodge. The arrow 
was taken out, and the boy was brought to life through the powers of the 
Beaver and the Otter. Then the animals said: ‘‘We know he killed 
you, but we wish you to return to your people. You must ‘go back to 
your people now and tell them that we want native tobacco, eagle feath- 
ers, blue beads, and sweet-smelling grass.”’ 
The boy went home to his lodge and there he found his mother. He 
woke her up and said, ‘‘Mother, I am here.’’ The mother got up, cried, 
and said, ‘“‘And this is the way my son used to do when he was living 
and now he comes to me always only in dreams.’’ He said: ‘‘No, 
mother, it is true. I am here. Do not make a noise. Go to my rela- 
_ tives and tell them I am here and I want native tobacco, eagle feathers, 
blue beads, and sweet-smelling grass.””’ The mother touched her boy, 
made a fire, seated him, and then went through the village. The peo- 
ple opened their sacred bundles to get the blue beads and other things 
which the boy wanted. These things were brought to the boy and placed 
before him. Then the boy thanked-them and said: ‘‘My relatives, I 
gofrom you. You shall see meagain.’’ The boy left and was not heard 
of again for some time. 
One night he came back into the lodge and awoke his mother and said, 
““Mother, I am here.”” She got up, caught him, andmadea fire. People 
knew that he had come back. For sometime the boy remained with his 
mother. The father would come and visit them, but the boy never had 
much to do with him. 
One night the boy sat down with his mother before his sacred bundle, 
where he kept the things which had been given him by the animals. 
He said, ‘‘Mother, I will nowtell youmy story. Mother, my father shot 
me with one of his arrows and killed me. If he had left me upon dry 
land I should have died, but he picked me up, carried me to a stream of 
water, threw me in, and said, ‘Animals under the water, I give you this 
boy for you to eat.’ The animals took pity on me. If you want father 
to live he shall live. If you think he ought to die because he did me 
wrong, then take this little water-dog down to the stream, dip it into 
the water, and if when you take it out there is a little piece of liver in 
its mouth, you will know that the people down at Pahuk have eaten up 
the insides of my father. If you dip this little animal’s nose into the 
water and there is no liver, then you may know that what I tell you is 
not true.” 
