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has been left behind. Other people who had bundles could not do this. 
They were afraid to touch meat that had already been offered to the 
gods. 
12, WHY THE BUFFALO NO LONGER EAT PEOPLE.* 
A young man went into a village in the night, and he heard the 
people talking. He could understand their talking, and by peeping 
into their tipi, he found out that they were Buffalo people. They were 
talking about killing the people. So the young man investigated. He 
climbed up on a high arbor that was in front of the tipi, and there he 
took hold of a human head. He felt around over the place and he 
found human meat. He climbed down from this place, and went to 
one of the large tipis, and here the people said, “We will soon do 
what we are to do. We will get these people out of the ground, and 
we will kill them.”” Now the young man hid. 
By the side of the hole where the people were to come out there 
was a cut in the side of a steep bank, so that, as the people were coming 
out of the hole, the bulls circled around them and drove the people 
up into the cut, where they hooked them and killed them. The young 
man saw the people, men, women, and children running to the cut, 
and as they went they were singing and crying. The people were 
coming out from the ground. 
The young man felt sorry for the people, so that he went up 
among the hills. A strange man met him, and told him all about what 
was going on. He said: “These Buffalo have just started to eating 
people. I do not like it. Take this bow and these arrows, go to your 
home, select many young men and tell them to make bows and arrows. 
Lead them to this place, and kill and ‘scatter the Buffalo so that they 
will not kill or eat any longer.” 
The man took the bow and arrows, and the strange man stopped 
talking. The man found out that the strange man who was talking to 
him was the bow and arrows themselves. The young man then went 
- to the village. He called many young men together and told them to 
make bows and arrows. 
When the people had many bows and arrows the man led them to 
the place where the people came out from the ground. ‘There the 
Buffalo were just trying to make the circle again around the hole, when 
these men attacked the Buffalo and commenced to kill them. Some of 

*Told by Star. 
