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hills. The people went out and found the Buffalo. They surrounded 
them and killed all of them. Again the young man told them to go out 
and kill Buffalo. Four times they killed. The whole drove came to 
the village. . 
The leader of the Buffalo now sat upon a high hill, with a Buffalo 
skull in front of him. The Buffalo man was sent for, and the Buffalo 
leader said: “I am satisfied. The people are happy. This day I give 
you sticks to play with. The two sticks are people. The ring is a kind 
of people—the Buffalo. When you play, the sticks which you ring 
are the enemy, whom you conquer. The ring is the Buffalo. The peo- 
ple will become very jealous of their hunting-ground. You will be at 
war with other people in the country.” These sticks were placed in the 
priests’ lodge, so that when a bundle ceremony was given the sticks 
were placed before the people. The sticks were people. Two sets of 
people who became jealous of the Buffalo then fought. The ones who 
caught the ring were conquerors. The man went home and lived a long 
life. The Buffalo calf started the Buffalo ceremony among the people. 
30. THE ORIGIN OF THE WOLF DANCE.* 
When the Arikara lived on the Missouri River, there was a hand- 
some young man in the village, whose father was a chief. The young 
man had never been on the war-path. He never played with other 
young men, but stayed around close to his lodge. Many young girls 
in the village went to him to be married to him, but he would not have 
them. There was one place that he went and that was upon a high hill, 
west of the village. He had a certain way of going to that hill. 
Now, there were seven beautiful girls in the tribe, each of whom 
had tried to marry the young man and had been refused. The seven 
girls got together and planned to put the young man into a hole, 
which was about ten feet in depth, and larger at the bottom. They 
spread some weeds over the hole, and when the time came for the 
young man to come that way they hid. The young man came, stepped 
over the hole and fell in. 
For some time he stood yelling for help. At last the seven girls 
went to the hole and they told him that he must give his clothing 
to them. He took his things off, and the girls each took a little basket, 
dropped it down, and received in it a piece of clothing. Then each girl 
dropped her basket, and asked the young man to spit in it, promising 
*Told by Snowbird. 
