394 THE ORIGIN OF MEDICINE CEREMONIES OR POWER. 
After he had lived a long time he committed suicide. Something told 
him that his friend Scalped-Man was gone, and so he did not wish to 
live any longer. 
105. HOW THE PAWNEE GOT THE EAGLE DANCE.’ 
Many years ago while the Pawnee lived near Nemaha, Nebraska, the 
people agreed to remove their village on west to the Republican River. 
When the people reached the place where they were to make their new 
village, there was a man among the people who wandered away. The 
relatives of this man did not know where the man went. The people 
kept on building their village and in about two years it was complete. 
Here the people remained for some time. When summer came they 
moved west to hunt for buffalo. When they had gone far, the man who 
was lost came into their camp. He wore a buffalo robe about his body, 
the hair outside, and covered with soft eagle feathers. His head was 
covered with soft downy feathers, one soft feather being stuck into his 
scalp-lock on the top of hishead. The people looked at him with wonder. 
On account of the way he was dressed and covered with eagle feathers 
they knew that he must have been to some animals’ lodge, or to some 
other mysterious place. He did not join the people on their journey, but 
waited until everybody had passed, and then he followed. 
When he would reach the village he would sit down on the south side 
and remain there. Sometimes he went to where the men were playing 
the javelin game. He would sit down on the south side of the field and 
remain there alone. He would never allow any man to come and sit with 
him. When the people had gone a long way through the western coun- 
try, the man disappeared again. After several days the man came 
back to the camp with many more eagle feathers. He tied the eagle 
feathers in a small buffalo robe and hung the robe up in his tipi. 
When the people saw the bundle which he brought back they were 
sure that he was a wonderful man, and that he must have wonderful 
ways. The people killed many buffalo and returned to their village. 
The man who was lost went with them, taking his sacred bundle. The 
people looked upon him as wonderful, but in reality he had no powers of 
any kind. He found, however, a wonderful place and brought things 
from that place to his home. He was anxious to learn more about the 
wonderful place he had found, and so he went to the place whenever he 
?Told by Young-Bull, Pitahauirat. Apart from the story of the origin of the 
Eagle dance, the tale is similar in the moral it points to No. 86. Here also the 
lesson is taught that a young man should not mistreat a member of his own tribe 
for his own personal benefit. 
