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people are hungry and we are still going south, let us go northwest. Let 
the chief give me the lead. I may help the chief and his people.’’ The 
chief was glad to hear what Howling-Fox had to say. He went out 
and gave orders to the crier to go through the camp and cry out, that 
Howling-Fox would give orders where they were to travel and how far 
they were to go. The crier then went to Howling-Fox, who told him to 
tell the people that they were to travel northwest. 
The people broke camp the next morning and went northwest. They 
made short journeys, for the people were very thin and weak. Several 
days they went, until they got to the Platte River, where they made 
their camp. In the night Howling-Fox went out and again met Buffalo- 
Woman, who said: ‘‘I came from afar. There are no buffalo here. 
Let the people make an earth-lodge, and let its entrance be in the west. 
There you shall sit, and I will come in and visit you. In four days I shall 
return here. I shall want at that time eagle feathers, blue beads, and 
native tobacco.”’ The woman disappeared and was gone, and Howling- 
Fox went into his tipi. He had some boiled meat that he had kept. He 
sent for the chief and told him that he wanted an earth-lodge built. 
Some of the people began to help build the lodge. There were other 
people who complained and said, ‘‘ We ought to be traveling, so that we 
could find Buffalo.’’ But the people went on with the building of the 
lodge. 
The fourth night Howling-Fox went out and met Buffalo-Woman, 
who said, ‘‘Go now and get the things I told you that I want.”’ Howling- 
Fox went and brought the things and gave them to her. She was glad 
to get them. She said, ‘‘My son, go with me and carry these things that 
you have brought me.”’ They went over the hill. She found a buffalo 
wallow and began to roll in it and turned into a Buffalo. Howling-Fox 
then ran along beside the Buffalo and they went on till they came to 
some Buffalo bulls. Howling-Fox took the feathers, native tobacco, 
and other gifts and tied them on the horns of the bulls, who were pleased. 
The bulls turned upon the cow and she became a woman. She said: 
*“My son, the bulls are pleased. They promise you some Buffalo in a 
few days. They also give you power to call the Buffalo. They are glad 
you found my daughter and returned her to me. Now we must start 
back to your home, for it is very far to your people.’’ The woman went 
up to Howling-Fox and covered him with her robe. She began to blow 
her breath. The wind seemed to blow. Howling-Fox did not move 
nor try to look. At last the wind went down. The woman turned him 
loose from her robe and said: ‘‘Here we are, my son; go to your tipi and 
sleep. As soon as the lodge is finished, you must meet me there. I will 
