84 TRADITIONS OF THE ARIKARA. 
The boy came to be a good hunter. In the meanwhile he went out 
on the war-path with some others. When they discovered the enemy, 
he it was who fought where the arrows were thickest. ‘Thus he be- 
came known as a brave. 
Some years afterwards he was known far and wide, and even 
liis own people were afraid of him. But finally he turned around and 
did that which was wrong among his people. Anyone who made 
any attempt to kill the young man would forget it just as he was ready 
to. Many a man tried to kill him, but always forgot. He was 
called “Make-to-Forget.” But one man was capable of killing him, 
and he did so, because he aroused the people so much by doing wrong 
deeds. 
25. THE END OF THE ELK POWER.* 
There were once four strong young brothers. Only the oldest one 
was married. He had a wife and child. One day the men went to 
their traps to lie in wait for eagles. The woman stayed at home, where 
she was busy preparing a hide for clothing. Toward evening the 
young men returned ‘home, one by one. 
The wife of the eldest brother was missing. They looked all around. 
There was no sign of the woman. The baby was found on the ground, 
crying, and the tools which the woman had used were there, but the 
woman was gone. The men believed that the woman had been taken 
away captive, and they grieved for her as lost. The baby was hungry 
and cried so piteously that it brought tears to his father’s and 
uncles’ eyes. “The father tried to comfort him by feeding him deer 
brain broth, which would quiet him for only a little time. The oldest 
of the unmarried brothers was so filled with pity for the young one 
that he cried from eve till morn, trusting that the chief would hearken 
to his cry and help him and his brothers. He went out to cry near 
a strip of timber where he had seen an old dry skull of a buck elk. 
For two nights the young man cried near the skull. On the second 
night the Elk heard his cry and before sunrise the young man heard 
a voice saying: “I am well pleased with your earnest manner of 
pleading for your loss. I will help you. First, I will say that your 
brother’s wife is alive, but captured by a Bear who has already cap- 
tured three other women. You may think that the Bear is mightier 
than I, but that is a mistake, as you will see. Go home with the as- 
*Told by White-Bear. 
