340 THE ORIGIN OF MEDICINE CEREMONIES OR POWER. 
live to be an old man, and when I die, then you are to die. When you 
go hence and the people have returned to their village, you must come 
to a certain place upon the Wonderful River (Missouri). There under 
a certain steep bank is an animals’ lodge, where you will stand until 
you are takenin. There you will learn to be a medicine-man, for I have 
control of that lodge. Go now, my son, to your people.’’ When the 
boy left the cave it was night. He went to his home and lay down. 
The next morning the father and mother got up and saw him lying there; 
they also saw that he had a small bundle. They knew that this bundle 
meant something, so they took it and wrapped it up in a robe and hung 
it up on the side of the tipi. The next day the chief’s boy came to his 
tipi and was glad to see him again. 
When the people had dried their meat, they broke camp and started 
back to their permanent village. They were attacked by the enemy. 
The boy did not join them, but the people had success in driving the 
enemy away; but one man was brought home wounded. The different 
medicine-men in the village were sent for to wait upon the man. They 
waited on him, but he seemed to growworse. The poor boy visited the 
wounded man. Some of the medicine-men who were waiting on the 
man were singing, when the Bear spirit in the poor boy took hold of him, 
and he jumped up, going close to the wounded man, and then toa ray 
of the sun that was shining in, and there he stood in the sun’s ray and 
poured forth from his mouth different colored paints. He then turned 
to the wounded man and blew his breath of dust upon the wound. The 
dust seemed to enter the wound, and the man felt better. The boy 
became quiet and took up his robe and left the lodge. The wounded man 
cried, “‘Go after the poor boy, and let him wait on me again.’’ The boy 
was sent for, and when he came in the other medicine-men, who waited 
on the wounded man, sat on one side and gave the patient up to the boy. 
He went through the same performance, and after he had finished he sat 
down, and the wounded man said, ‘‘My son, come every day to treat me; 
you shall have several ponies and several robes.’’ The young man came 
and cured the wounded man, and it was noised through the village that 
the boy had cured the wounded man. The last time he waited upon 
the man he sang a song about the Bear, and the people said that the 
young man must have been taken into the Bear’s den. He sang to tell 
the people that he had cured the man. The presents were taken to his 
lodge, and the robes and other presents were brought in, while the ponies 
were tied outside. 
The boy went into the lodge and asked the people to sweep it out — 
and put the mat and other things in order, saying that he did not want 
