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Proud-Boy and Yellow-Corn. Then, my brother, you will be looked 
upon as a great warrior and you can marry some other woman. Come, 
my brother.’”’ This is the way these warriors talked to their brother. 
At last he gave in and promised his brothers that he would help kill 
the two. The news was spread, and Proud-Boy’s father was told that 
the brothers were planning to kill hisson. The father told his boy, and 
Proud-Boy said: ‘‘My father, I am a young man, but I have a strong 
heart. Tell our people not to fight forme. Let them come and kill me. 
I willnot run. When they have killed Yellow-Corn and me, take us into 
my tipi and lay us side by side on my bed; then spread my robe over us. 
Then leave the tipi. You will see us again.’’ The man looked at his 
son and wondered if he could come to life again. 
In the evening the news that Yellow-Corn and Proud-Boy were tobe 
attacked the next day was spread throughout the village. That night 
Proud-Boy took the root that had been given him while he was in the 
timber, and ate of it, and gave some of it to Yellow-Corn. Then hesaid: 
““Yellow-Corn, will you stay by me? Will you be killed with me?” 
She said, “‘Yes, it is all right. I will die with you.”’ Then the boy said: 
‘“*Yellow-Corn, do not be frightened, for we shall come to life. It is now 
time that people should know who I am.”’ 
Early in the morning Proud-Boy arose and went out of the tipi. It 
was a clear day and the birds were singing. He called Yellow-Corn and 
said: ‘‘Bring the buffalo scalp. Let my father, the Sun, look upon it.”’ 
The scalp was brought out and hung outside of the lodge. Proud-Boy 
told his mother to cook nothing for them. His father was out watching. 
Proud-Boy and Yellow-Corn went into the tipi. Proud-Boy painted 
Yellow-Corn and gave her someroot to eat. Some people in the village 
yelled and said, ‘‘The warriors are coming!’’ The boy and the girl 
seated themselves in front of the buffalo scalp. The men came and rode 
by them and around them, shooting at them with arrows. Two of the 
men had guns and these two were the ones who shot and killed them. 
The other men rode their horses over them. The people ran from their 
camp to see the dead Proud-Boy. His father told the men to put up 
their bows and arrows. They obeyed and rode off. 
The father and the mother took the dead bodies and laid them upon 
Proud-Boy’s bed, and then covered them with the painted robe. The 
- entrance to the tipi was then closed. The people stood afar off and 
watched. They said: ‘‘The parents do not cry, and the bodies have 
been taken into the tipi. There must be something wonderful in the 
tipi.”” When the Sun was near noon, the people saw a straight dust 
going up fromthetipi. They pointed to thedust. There were noises in 
