THE ORIGIN OF THE ARIKARA., 17 
to all animal gods. Just as they were about to move on, a Dog came 
running into the village, frothing at the mouth, and fell down calling 
upon Mother-Corn, and saying that she had done wrong by leaving it 
behind ; that Mother-Corn had remembered all the gods and all the ani- 
mals, without remembering him, the Dog; that now he had caught up 
with the people; that he knew that not only himself, but the Whirlwind 
was left out; and that the Whirlwind was mad, and was coming to 
scatter the people; that the Dog had come from the Sun and that the 
Sun had given it curative powers; that the Dog would help them; 
that as the Whirlwind was coming to destroy the people, the Dog let 
them know that the Whirlwind was a disease, and wherever the wind 
touched the people, disease would be left; but if, when the Whirlwind 
should come, they would kill a dog and let the dog meat be the first 
to be offered as a sacrifice to the different gods in the heavens, then 
the gods would send a storm that would drive away the disease from 
the villages. 
As the Whirlwind came the people cried to the Dog: “Let it be 
as you say. You shall be the first meat in all our offerings in our cere- 
monies, and you shall be meat for us to eat when there is disease in the 
villages, but let the Whirlwind stop.” The Whirlwind stopped blowing. 
Then the Dog appeased the gods, and said, “I shall always remain 
with the people. I shall be a guardian for all their belongings.” 
After this was done, Nesaru had gathered in from his garden the 
crop of corn he had planted. Nesaru then gave three things to the 
people—Mother-Corn, the office of chief, and the medicine-men. Then 
Mother-Corn said, “The gods in the heavens are the four world-quar- 
ters, for they are jealous. If you forget to give smoke to them they 
will get mad and send storms.” ‘Then she said, “Give smoke to me 
last. The Cedar-Tree that shall stand in front of your lodge shall be 
myself. I shall turn into a Cedar-Tree; to remind you that I am 
Mother-Corn, who gave you your life. It was I, Mother-Corn, who 
brought you from the east. I must become a Cedar-Tree to be with 
you. The stone that is placed at the right of the Cedar-Tree is the 
man who came and gave you order and established the office of chief. 
It is Nesaru, who still exists all the time, and is watching over you. It 
will keep you together and give you long life.” 
