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Many times, while on a buffalo hunt, the woman would find cedar 
limbs around her tipi. She would tie them into a bundle and pack them 
around until the people who belonged to the Bear family came and 
asked for some of the cedar branches. She would give them away, but 
never threw them away. 
This woman lived to be very old. When she died, the son took her 
place and became one of the four leading dancers in the Bear ceremony. 
The woman before she died gave aname to the Chaui man, and that name 
_ was Carry-the-War-Club-in-Anger. Her son she named Wonderful-Sun. 
Her teachings are now kept by Seems-Like-Chief. He is a young 
man, but has in his keeping a bear’s claw that the woman was supposed 
to have, and also has a young bear robe which is decorated. This dance 
is still performed each summer by the descendants of this Chaui. 
92. THE BUFFALO POWER AND THE WILD HORSE DANCE.’ 
A long time ago there was a big village upon a river, and in this 
village lived a chief who had become famous for traveling to many 
places and capturing many ponies and killing people. All of the other 
chiefs looked upon him as the big chief of the tribe. When he gave 
orders they were carried out at once. This chief had many wives, the 
youngest of whom gave birth to a boy. The chief cared for this boy 
and talked to him, telling how he had become a great chief. The peo- 
ple looked to the son to become chief some day and fill his father’s 
place without having to go on the war-path. As the boy grew up he 
thought that his father did not like him, because he talked so much to 
him about what he should do to become a chief, to fight in battles, go 
on the war-path, and capture ponies. The boy made up his mind that 
as soon as he should get a chance he would join a war party. The first 
war party he found going out, he joined. The war party failed and had 
to return home unsuccessful. The young man wanted to go on another 
war party, and so he would stay out at night, visiting different lodges, 
to see if there was any war party going out. Whenever he found a 
war party starting out he joined it. The parties that he joined were 
unsuccessful. They met obstacles, were seen by the enemy, were run 
after, sometimes surrounded, and often some of the warriors killed. The 
boy, however, always managed to escape. If the war party happened 
to capture many ponies, they were overtaken and the ponies taken from 
1Told by Roaming-Chief, Chaui. The story especially points the moral that a 
chief is not necessarily a great man, and especially that, if he proves to be lazy, 
people will have no respect for him. 
