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place upon the Platte River to hold their ceremony. Runners were 
sent out to invite the other tribes to come and take part. While the 
people were waiting for the different tribes, who could be seen approach- 
ing in the distance, the boys were playing games. Proud-Boy joined 
them and talked in such a way as to make the boys believe that he was 
a great warrior. That night he ordered his mother to put up his tipi. 
The tipi was put up. Dirt was piled around the circle of the lodge. 
Inside the lodge, at the west side, was also piled dirt, so that there was a 
mound. By the mound was placed a cedar tree. At the head of the 
boy’s bed was hung the buffalo scalp. Upon his bed the robe was 
spread. It had a picture of the sun and all kinds of birds upon it. 
After the lodge was completed, Proud-Boy took his pony and 
painted the nostrils, the shoulders, the hips, and the root of the tail with 
red clay. He tied some eagle feathers to the tail and the mane. He 
dressed in his robe, leggings, and moccasins, took his eagle fan, and rode 
to the place where the boys were playing. As he rode among them, he 
said, ‘‘Boys, I am going to watch the people as they enter the village, 
and when I see the girl that I love I am going to take her home with me.’”’ 
As the tribes approached from all different directions and entered the 
village, Proud-Boy mounted his pony and rode to the place where they 
entered the village. He watched one tribe as it passed, but he did not 
see among all the people any girl that he cared for. Then he rode back 
to the place where the boys were playing their games and told them that 
he had not seen the girl he loved among the people. The next day 
another tribe entered the village. Proud-Boy arrayed himself and his 
pony as he had done the day before. Then he rode among the boys and 
said, ‘‘Boys, I am going to watch the people come, and if I see the girl 
I love I shall take her home with me.”’ Proud-Boy rode to the entrance 
of the village, and there he sat straight up on his pony, holding his eagle 
fan over his face. He watched and watched until all had passed, but 
the girl did not come. He went to the boys and told them there was 
no girl that he liked among the people who came that day. The next 
day another tribe came from the east, and again the boy arrayed him- 
self and rode among the boys and said, ‘‘ Well, boys, I am going again.”’ 
He went and watched as he had done before, but he did not see the girl 
he was looking for. He did not go to his home, but rode around the 
village. In the village he saw all of the people crowded around his tipi. 
They did not go near it, but admired it froma distance. They thought 
that it was a wonderful tipi, and they marveled at the pictures, for it was 
the first tipi with pictures upon it that was ever seen among the Kitke- 
hahki. Some said: ‘‘Proud-Boy must be a wonderful boy. It may 
