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to visit his father’s village. His father’s name was “Black-Sun.” 
They went south to Black-Sun’s village. One evening they came to the 
village. Young-Fagle left his wife outside of the village, and went 
to his father’s lodge. He told his father that he had come back. His 
father got up and made a fire. He told his woman to get up, for their 
son had come back. The four sisters got up from their beds and hugged 
their brother, for they had been mourning for him as dead. Young- 
Eagle told his sisters to go out and to bring their sister-in-law. They 
went out, and they found Yellow-Calf sitting outside of the lodge, 
holding three ponies. The girls embraced their sister-in-law and led 
her into the camp, took in the things that belonged to Young-Eagle 
and his wife, but led the ponies away. The stick with the scalps was 
fastened upon a long pole and stood up in front of the lodge. 
Early on the next morning, Black-Sun got up and went through 
the village singing scalp songs, thus letting the people know that his 
son had returned with many scalps. The people heard it. They went 
out, and they saw the pole that had the scalps upon it. The people 
rushed into the lodge, and that very same day the braves and warriors 
decided that this Young-Eagle should lead the people to the girl’s 
village. 
So the people of the other village went north, and the north and 
south tribes of the Arikara came together and became one tribe again. 
48. THE GIRL WHO BECAME A WHIRLWIND.* 
Many, many years ago the Arikara left their village and went west 
on a buffalo hunt. They left behind a family, the woman of which 
was leading a pony that dragged a travois with two children on it—a 
girl seven years old and a boy of five. As these people were crossing 
a little stream of water the pony jumped across the stream, and the 
children fell off. The woman, supposing the children still to be on the 
travois, never looked behind, and did not miss the children until she 
came into camp. 
The men were then sent back to try to find the children, but they 
could not be found; for when they fell off, instead of following their 
parents they had gone back in the direction of their village, but instead 
of going into the village they had gone into the timber west of the 
village. There they wandered through the timber, and at last they 
came to a cave, where they stopped. The girl left the boy there while 
*Told by Many-Fox. . 
