336 THE ORIGIN OF MEDICINE CEREMONIES OR POWER. 
The boy had great power. He did many wonderful things, and the 
people talked about it. The news reached the Skidi. The Skidi man 
again invited the boy to his tipi. This time the man would not eat with 
the Skidi. They talked about old times and the boy told the man that 
he had tried to poison him, but that the animals had taken him into 
their lodge and cured him. The boy opened his hand to the man and 
the man saw a bear claw there. When the boy closed his hand and 
opened it again, the bear claw was gone and the man fell over dead. 
Instead of the Skidi mourning for this man they thanked the boy for 
killing him. 
The boy became a great medicine-man. It was through him that 
when they had their medicine ceremonies he called a live bear to visit 
them in their lodge. It was also through him that the Bear-Men used 
to cut people open and eat their liver. This boy also belonged to the 
Deer society. At one time the medicine-man and the Deer family were 
about to quarrel over their power. This young man spoke to them of 
taking away their fireplace. They knew then that he had power to 
make turtles around the fireplace move away. That would take away 
their power also. The medicine-men yielded to him. They were afraid 
that in doing some of the animal powers they might kill one another and 
that the Deer family might not be able to heal their people. 
This boy became a great medicine-man, and he took the name of 
Smoking-with-the-Bear. Every day before the sun came up he went out 
of the lodge, sat upon it, and watched the sunasitcameup. Sometimes 
he filled his pipe and smoked to the sun and to the bear. He taught his 
son his mysteries, and especially the secret of cutting amanopen. This 
secret died when Medicine-Sun died, for he was the last of the bear family 
who learned the secrets from this boy. 
90. THE BEAR MEDICINE.' 
Many years ago the Pawnee went on a buffalo hunt. They followed 
the Platte River. When they had journeyed many days they came to a 
rough country where the people found cedar trees and they knew they 
were getting into a dangerous country; for the country was filled with 
wild animals, such as grizzly bears and mountain-lions. Among the 
people was a man, his wife and son. The man was poor. He had but 
one pony to pack his tipi and other things upon. The boy was hand- 
some. Every time the Pawnee made their camp, the chief’s son would 
1 Told by Medicine-Sun, a Skidi priest and medicine-man who died last year. 
The idea in relating this story is the same as in the preceding sory wg _It ‘further 
teaches the value of friendship among young men. 
