350° THE ORIGIN OF MEDICINE CEREMONIES OR POWER. 
a bear. The woman herself began to realize that she had the spirit of a 
bear, and she knew why it was that, when a young girl, she became very 
sick when her nails were cut. 
One day the enemy attacked the village. She gave the red paint to 
her husband to put all over his body, and also gave him the red feather to 
tie in his scalp-lock. He went out and fought and was very brave. The 
enemy’s arrows did not seem to have any effect upon him. When the 
battle was over, the people brought in one man who was badly wounded. 
The wounded man’s folks sent for some of the best medicine-men in the 
village, but the medicine-men said, ‘‘We can not do anything for him.” 
The man gave the grunting noise of a bear, so the relatives said, ‘‘Let 
us send for the woman who grunts like a bear.’’ The people sent their 
errand man to the woman. The man went to the woman’s tipi and 
went up to where the woman sat, and, passing his hands over her, said, 
“Have pity upon me and the relatives of the man who was wounded and 
is dying.’’ She sat still for a while, then said, ‘‘I will go.’”” The errand 
man passed his hands over her head again and thanked her; then went 
back to the wounded man’s lodge and told the people that the woman 
was coming. The woman sent word to the wounded man to be patient, 
for she wascoming. She also sent word that the women should sweep out 
the lodge and that the men should burn cedar limbs in the lodge, and 
that the man should be placed on the south side of the lodge. 
' All these things were done. A tipi was now put up to the west of the 
woman’s lodge. She took her husband into the tipi, carrying her medi- 
cine bundle with her. When they went in she untied the bundle, and 
for the first time her husband saw the things that she had in it. She 
took her skirt off and wore a piece of tanned buffalo to cover her waist. 
She painted her body with yellow paint and took the yellow feather and 
putitin her hair. She then painted her husband with the red paint and 
put the red feather in his hair. She then sang a song to call the Bears 
to help her. The Bears had told her to sing the song, and promised 
that if they heard it and decided to help her, she would find on the next 
morning cedar limbs around her tipi. 
The song she sang was this: 
Some one spoke and told me. . 
Yonder shall come, yonder shall come. 
That my father stood where I now stand. 
Yonder shall come, yonder shall come, 
Yonder shall come, yonder shall come, 
Yonder shall come, yonder shall come, 
Yonder shall come, yonder shall come. 
