THE BEAR MEDICINE AND CEREMONY. 351 
I am now imitating the Bear, 
I am now acting like one. 
Yonder shall come, yonder shall come, 
Yonder shall come, yonder shall come, 
Yonder shall come, yonder shall come. 
This song she repeated several times. All the time she was grunting 
and making a noise like a bear, so the man was made to feel like a bear. 
They sat in their tipi all night singing bear songs. In the morning the 
man filled his pipe; then they both went out. As the sun came up from 
the east, the woman inhaled power from it, and the man smoked to it. 
Then the woman and the man gathered some of the cedars and they 
started for the wounded man’s lodge. The wounded man’s relatives 
were anxious to have them to come, for the wounded man was getting 
worse. 
As the woman and man went through the village they sang another 
song. When they entered the lodge they sang a third song. Then the 
woman went around the lodge by way of the north, then to the south, 
where the patient lay. 
She stood on the east side of the lodge and blew her breath; there 
was no color to her breath. Again she went around the lodge and blew 
her breath. Again and again she went around the lodge, then told the 
people to remove the robe and to bare the man’s wound. She looked at 
the wound, then blew her breath at it, and her breath was yellow. The 
breath went straight to the wound. She went around the lodge again 
and stood on the east side and blew her breath again. It was red and 
went straight to the wound. Again she ran around the lodge and stood 
on the east side and blew her breath, and this time it was black, and it 
went straight to the wound. The last time her breath was white, and 
it went straight to the wound. The wound seemed to become fresh and 
the blood began to flow. She then went to the man and blew different 
breaths into him. The spirit of the Bear within the woman was roused. 
The woman began grunting and raising her hands. Some of the people 
said, ‘‘The bear’s teeth are coming out.’’ Her husband took the cedar 
limbs and tapped the woman on her back until she quieted down. 
Some limbs of cedar were put upon the coals, so that the smell of burnt 
cedar and smoke was all over the lodge. The woman and the man then 
went home. Four days afterwards the woman went through the same 
performance. She never gave the man any medicine, but the man’s 
wound began to heal. The third time she went through the performance, 
and the fourth time. The wound was healing rapidly and the wounded 
man was getting well. 
