330 THE ORIGIN OF MEDICINE CEREMONIES OR POWER. 
the tipi. Mountain-Lions and Buffalo were bellowing, Birds were sing- 
ing, and Owls hooting. There was a great dust coming out from the top 
and sides of the tipi. The noise ceased and the dust went away. The 
news went through the village that wonderful things were going on in 
Proud-Boy’s tipi. Some people said, ‘‘We understood the animals and 
the birds took pity on Proud-Boy and gave him power.’’ Again the 
dust was seen and the noises heard. The news of this was taken to the 
men who had killed the boy and the girl. The warrior said: “‘I am sorry 
that I killed the boy. I knew that the boy was wonderful when I heard 
that he had a wonderful tipi, but it can not be helped now.”’ The 
noises continued for a time, then subsided. When this had happened 
four times and the dust had settled, Proud-Boy came out of the tipi and 
said: ‘‘Mother, prepare food for us, for we are hungry.”’ This was in 
the afternoon. The mother boiled some meat and fed Proud-Boy and 
Yellow-Corn. The news went through the camp that Proud-Boy and 
Yellow-Corn were alive, and the men who had killed them heard of it. 
The next morning the young man said: ‘‘Father, you see my bow and 
arrows, my shield and spear? I shall not use them to fight against these 
men; but before the moon disappears every one of them shall die.”’ 
The next morning the young man sat in his tipi and took from under 
his bed a water-dog. This he pointed toward the village of the men. 
When the sun was high the leading warrior was found dead in his bed. 
Every day after that a man died until all of the men who had anything 
to do with the killing of the boy were dead. The people knew why the 
men had died and did not question. They said: ‘‘Letusmake Proud-Boy 
our chief.’’ But the boy said: ‘‘No, I can not be chief. I will be a 
medicine-man. I will cure people of their sickness. I will teach my 
people to do wonderful things. My wife will wait on the women, for she 
will know how to prescribe for them.’’ From that time Proud-Boy was 
a great medicine-man. All the people painted their tipis in imitation 
of his. 
89. THE BEAR MEDICINE-MAN.? 
Many years ago when the people lived near Fremont, Nebraska, a 
little boy wandered away from the village and went into the thick timber. 
There he found many Magpies. He tried to shoot some of the birds, but 
he could not hitthem. He finally ran after one. It would fly up and light 
1 Told by Little-Chief, Chaui. This story is generally related during the Bear 
ceremony. It is also related outside of the ceremonial lodgejto children, and is 
especially supposed to inform the poor boys that the bears are their friends, and 
that they could count on securing mysterious power from the bear family if they 
approach them in the proper spirit. 
