Iris TRADITIONS OF THE ARIKARA. 
surrounded this mysterious being and caught him. He was not 
scalped, nor wounded, but he had changed his ways so that he could 
live with the Coyotes, and he was almost like an animal. The people 
begged him to go home, saying that his wife and children were well 
and that his wife was not married again. But he said: “I know; but 
I cannot, for I am married.” ‘They took him notwithstanding, and 
they gave him medicines. He''became well, and he entered the medi- 
cine-lodge. The man asked permission to do some sleight-of-hand, 
and the medicine-men gave him the privilege to do so. He took a 
man, went around the lodge and vomited up a lot of hair, white 
clay, and other things. After all this had come out of him he was 
cleansed from being a Coyote. He continued with the sleight-of- 
hand, and he told the people that he was going to call his wife; that his 
wife was the one that he was afraid of, and this was the reason he 
had not returned home. So he went up onto the top of the lodge and 
shouted and shouted; then he went around to the west and shouted; 
then to the north and to the east; then he came into the lodge, and 
said, “My wife is far away.” He went out again and shouted to the 
northwest, and after a while the people heard the Coyotes away off. 
They kept coming nearer and nearer, and the people ran away. The 
Coyotes kept on coming, and the people ran into the lodge. ‘The 
Coyote whom the man had married came into the lodge. When she 
entered the lodge she went around to the northeast of the fireplace, 
by way of the south, west, and north, and then to the northeast, and 
there she took her place. “This,” said the man, “is my wife.” The 
men called her names, saying: “You long-nosed thing! Why did you 
not come? Why do you run off so far away?” The leading medicine- 
man now arose. A pipe was given to him filled with native tobacco. 
He made some smoke to the Coyote woman. After the smoke the 
Coyote woman left the lodge and went off to join the other Coyotes. 
The people saw this female Coyote, and now knew that this man did 
have a Coyote woman. 
Many years afterwards this same man was roaming over the 
prairies, when a blizzard blew up. Just a little before sunset he 
came to a bank of snow, and there lay one of his baby Coyotes. He 
went to pick up the baby, but as he was so cold, he let the baby 
Coyote stay in the snow, and he went home. After he had warmed 
himself he went out to see if the baby was still in the snow, but when 
he got there, there was no baby at all. 
