HOW THE PAWNEE GOT THE EAGLE DANCE. 401 
peared. Hehadturnedintoan Eagleand had gonehome. The next day 
the boy was found in his lodge, and when he was asked about the warriors 
he told his father that he had been with them, that they had attacked a 
village, and the warriors had acted bravely and had taken some scalps. 
The people who heard the boy telling this to the father went through 
the village and told the people what the boy said. The people made 
fun of the boy. They believed that the boy had gone out and had never 
overtaken the warriors, but had returned. 
In a few days the warriors came over the hills singing war songs and 
shouting the name of the boy, telling how he had first attacked the vil- 
lage; that he had killed two and that he had also taken two scalps. 
Then the people believed what was said of the boy. After that, whenever 
the boy sat down before going on the war-path, other young men came 
and sat with him. They knew that he had great powers. They followed 
him, and he was successful in conquering the enemy and capturing 
ponies. He always had upon his body the white clay which was given 
him by the Eagle, the whistle, and the downy feather. The enemy tried 
to kill him, but they could not hit him and so he was never killed. After 
he became a great warrior he thought it was time that he should enter 
the Medicine-Men’s lodge. ‘ 
One summer the people went on a buffalo hunt. In the fall when 
they came back to their village, and the medicine-lodge was cleaned out 
and the medicine-men were to have their ceremonies, the boy thought he 
would dosomething. When the lodge wasall ready, the Eagle-Boy went 
into it. When he entered the lodge the leading medicine-man got up, 
went to him, and asked him what he wished to do. Eagle-Boy said, 
“‘I have come into your medicine-lodge to act with the medicine-men.”’ 
The young man was given a seat in the northwest, for the medicine-man 
knew that the den of the Eagles was in the northwest. When his turn 
came to do some sleight-of-hand, he took the whole eagle skin which 
he had, ran around the fire three or four times, and threw the whole eagle 
skin west of the fireplace, and there sat a live Eagle. The other medicine- 
men, as soon as they saw this, got up from their seats, took their pipes 
filled with native tobacco, went up to the live Eagle, and offered native 
tobacco and smoke to the Eagle. When the young man went up again 
to the Eagle he ran around it several times, and as he reached his hands 
toward the Eagle, the Eagle’s life seemed to die away. The boy caught 
the Eagle and it was the skin of the Eagle again. The boy performed 
many sleight-of-hand tricks, and after this he was looked upon as a 
great medicine-man. When anybody was sick he was sent for. He 
went, taking with him the Eagle wing and the rattle. He sang songs 
