Q2 TRADITIONS OF THE ARIKARA. 
into seven young men, who were her brothers. On the north side, 
where the sacred bundle hung, were several bows and arrows. These 
bows and arrows the brothers took down. When the boys took their 
bows and arrows the girl put her buffalo robe about her. She went 
up on to the lodge. She gave one yell toward the north, moved toward 
the west, moved toward the south, and then the buffalo came, from 
the north and from the west. She went back into the lodge, and her 
brothers began to kill the buffalo. They killed so many buffalo that 
the buffalo finally ran off. The brothers went into the lodge and stood 
in a row on the north side. The girl took some hot coals and placed 
them west of the fireplace, put some medicine and sweet grass upon 
them, and each brother, when his turn came, passed his bow and arrows 
through the smoke and laid them by the coals. Then they let the smoke 
pass through their bows. ‘Then one stepped to the south of the coals 
_ and stopped; he finally disappeared. After that all disappeared. The 
girl took the windpipe, passed it over the smoke, then put her hand on: 
the ground, got the dust together, and put it back into the windpipe. 
She passed the windpipe over the smoke, tied it, and hung it up in its 
place again. She even took the bows and arrows, passed them over the 
smoke and threw them upon the ground. They became tiny bows and 
grass arrows. These she hung up by the bundle again. 
While all this was going on the Coyote had one eye open. After 
the girl was through with the performance she told the Coyote to come 
out. She went out with the Coyote and they skinned the buffalo. They 
brought the meat into the lodge, and left the hides outside. Every day 
the girl and the Coyote jerked the meat. The Coyote laid the bones 
around the fireplace and roasted them. When the Coyote ate the roast 
meat that was cooked he would think of his hungry children far away. 
At last he decided to steal the windpipe that contained the young men 
and to take it far away into his country, so that he could call the buffalo 
and have the young men to kill them. He said to himself: “If I find 
the enemy’s camp I will attack them. I will turn that windpipe upside 
down and those brothers will come out, and they will fight for me. 
The people will think that I am a wonderful man.” One day the 
Coyote asked the girl if her seven brothers in the windpipe were the 
only ones there. She said, “No, for, if I am attacked, I turn that wind- 
pipe upside down and there will be many young men, and my seven 
brothers will lead them out and they will fight for me.” The Coyote 
said to himself, “That is good; I will steal it.” So the Coyote made 
up his mind to steal the windpipe that night. The girl knew what the 
