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chokes, secures offerings, makes his offerings as directed, and his parents hunt arti- 
chokes, but find ground beans. Next, boy kills bear and then discovers buffalo, 
and becomes efficient in calling buffalo. 
22. THE SON OF WIND, READY-TO-GIVE. 
People preparing to break camp discover that young girl is pregnant. She, 
though innocent, is driven from camp with her father and sister and grandmother. 
Being left behind, they make grass-lodge, and girl soon gives birth to boy, at which 
time there is strong wind in north. Child grows rapidly, and while in timber is 
addressed by his father and given bird to take home. In similar manner he receives 
rabbit, and so day by day larger game, until he is given buffalo. On next visit boy’s 
father appears and leads him into timber; is directed to dig in soft sand, where 
he finds rat’s hole, beneath which are many rats and ground beans, which he takes 
to his grandmother On next visit he is led to discover artichokes, and next he is 
presented with leggings, moccasins, robe, quiver, etc. Boy returns home and tells 
his mother he has seen his father, who is Wind, Ready-to-Give, and that he has 
promised to return to them in the spring and teach them agriculture. Boy there- 
after kills meat with assistance of his father, who enters lodge to visit his wife. He 
tells her he is angry because people made her an outcast; that her son shall event- 
ually be chief and call buffalo. After making provision for them for winter, he 
returns to north. They have great success in capturing buffalo during winter. 
In spring boy meets his father. They return to woman and plant seeds, white corn 
being given to wife, yellow corn to mother, red corn to sister, and black corn to 
grandmother. Father then directs boy to make sacred bundle, telling him that he 
should place in it fire sticks, white corn, hawk skin, and sweet grass; but when he 
kills a buffalo he should place tobacco in its nostrils, at roots of its ears, and on 
top of its head, as offering. Thus the gods would know that their spirit is to dwell 
in buffalo skull, which is to be placed on high hill until it is clean, when it is to be 
taken inside his lodge and is to become part of altar. During ceremony skull is 
to be placed north of fireplace, to remind the people that they are to make separate 
offering to Ready-to-Give. In the fall Ready-to-Give, having provided for his 
family, returns to north, warning his family that they must shun his wife’s 
uncles, because they were instrumental in bringing their disgrace. One of those of 
former village decides to return to old village to open cache hole, for his children 
are starving. The boy discovers man coming and he is taken into their lodge and 
fed. Man asks who they are, and they tell him, and he asks to see boy. Boy 
tells him to ask all people to return. He directs his mother to give man meat, with 
which he sets out. People return to old village and chief asks boy to marry his 
daughter, but first he gets tipi, in which he hangs his bundle, calls buffalo four times, 
and leads successful war party. 
23. THE MAN WHO CALLED THE BUFFALO. 
Boy is born with mysterious power, which he recognizes when he is old enough 
to use bow and arrow. He follows party hunting buffalo and discovers artichokes 
where tipi poles had dragged. While digging, man appears wearing black leggings 
with scalps and eagle feathers, buffalo robe, and eagle-skin cap. He tells boy that he 
has been his protector and that he is North Wind; gives him ground beans, which 
