398 THE ORIGIN OF MEDICINE CEREMONIES OR POWER. 
There was shouting all through the village. The people came out and 
watched the Eagles as they bore the man up into the sky. The Eagles 
twisted the man around until they finally unwrapped his buffalo robe. 
The robe dropped down to the ground and the Eagles took hold of the 
man’s flesh by the arms and legs. They flew away with their burden to 
their den, but instead of flying through the hole into the den with the 
man, they dropped him from the sky into the hole. He fell upon the 
ground in the den and was killed. The Eagles now flew into the den and 
placed the man in front of the two old Eagles. They ate of him for 
several days. When he was eaten up and there was nothing but the 
bones, the Eagles all came together and took bone after bone out of the 
den and scattered them over the earth. 
After the Eagles had carried this man off, the people broke camp and 
went away from that place. From that day to this the people have 
called this site ‘‘ Place-Where-the-Eagles-Carried-a-Man-Off. ”’ | 
Several years afterwards the Eagles turned the Eagle-Boy into a man, 
and when the Eagles saw that he was quite a young man they were satis- 
fied to send him home again. The Eagles all came together and agreed 
that the boy should return to his people. The oldest of the Eagles, 
except the two old parents, told the boy to kill him and remove his skin, 
leaving only the head in the skin, and to take the body out of the den 
and throw it away. He told the boy that by doing this his spirit would 
be with him always; that the spirit of the Eagle would always be with 
him to help him in anything he undertook. The old Eagle said: ‘‘My 
son, I should have given you my feathers, but you see, as I stretch my 
wings, that my feathers are worn off. You shall grow to old age just 
as I have grown, and all your children and all who shall have received 
the powers which I possess shall grow to great age.’’ The old Eagle 
then took one claw from his right leg and gave it to the boy and told him 
to wear it when fighting with the enemy. The Eagle also gave the boy 
a soft downy feather for him to wear in battle. The old Eagle then com- 
menced to scratch with its claws in the earth. Then he told the boy to 
place the dirt in a little buckskin, for it was the paint that he should put 
upon his body when in battle. The Eagle reached behind and took there- 
from a bone whistle, which was from the wing of an Eagle. He said: 
‘“When you have spread this paint upon your body, and you have the 
soft downy feather upon your scalp-lock, and you do not feel that we 
are near you, put this bone in your mouth, whistle, and our spirit will be 
with you.’’ The old Eagle promised the boy that in sickness the Eagle 
would be sent to watch over him and help him to wait on people when 
they were sick and cure them. The old Eagle also said: ‘‘When you 
