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greasy. As he went along he said: ‘‘I wish some wild animals would 
come out; I would shoot them with my bow and arrows.’’ While thus 
saying, Bear came out from among the cedars, and said: ‘‘Nawa, what 
is that you have? Let me see.’’ Coyote handed his bow to Bear, who 
pulled the string and broke the bow. Coyote then sang this song: 
Father Sun, this one standing here 
Has broken your bow. 
Bear became frightened, for Coyote had said, ‘‘The Sun is my god.” 
‘‘What shall I do?” he thought. ‘‘Grandpa, do not sing any more. I 
will make you one,” said Bear. He went into the timber and cut an ash 
and brought a bow already made to Coyote, for Bear had made it with his 
power. Coyote sang again about the Sun, and said: “‘It is not the right 
kind of wood.”’ Bear went into the timber and brought a bow of another 
kind of wood, but Coyote sang again and said: “‘It is not the right kind of 
wood.’’ Bear went and brought a plum-tree bow, which was very fine. 
Coyote said: ‘‘This is something like it. Now go and hide, so the Sun 
will not see you.”’ Bear sneaked off. When he had gone, Coyote ran 
as fast as he could in another direction. The bow was a fine one. 
Coyote thought: “‘I was lucky to get away from Bear, and then to get a 
fine bow from him.”’ He ran out of the timber and went on to the prairie, 
where he said: “‘I shall stay on the prairie hereafter, for Bear will kill me 
if he sees me again.’’ So Coyote made his home on the prairie. 
133. COYOTE SHOWS TURKEY THE SCALP-OFFERING CEREMONY.’ 
Coyote was going along all alone, when suddenly he saw Turkey. He 
said: ‘‘Hello! grandson, where are you going? May I go with you?” 
Turkey said: ‘‘Grandfather, Icameall alone.’’ Coyote said: ‘‘I want to 
teach you how to make fires to offer sacrifices; for before long I shall be 
dead, and I want to teach you these things, so that you will know 
them and your grandfathers will not say that I did not teach you about 
making the fires for making offerings to the gods in the heavens.”’ 
Turkey said: ‘‘All right; I will doas you tell me.’’ Coyote said: ‘‘ Well, 
then, come; let us go and make a fire, and we will stand on the different 
corners of the fireplace, just as in the heavens the different gods stand.” 
Coyote made Turkey believe that he knew all about the ceremony, but 
he was only planning to kill Turkey and take him home and eat him. 
Coyote made the fireplace. They both stood on the northeast of the 
Told by White-Eagle, Skidi. The story is told to the children so that when 
they grow up they shall have a desire to take scalps and make scalp sacrifices to 
the gods in the heavens. 
