154 TRADITIONS OF THE ARIKARA. 
There was a fine-looking young woman in the camp, and as soon as 
she heard the Elk whistling she jumped up as if something had struck 
her, and she said: “Oh! I like that whistling; I must go and find out 
what it is.” The people got hold of this woman. Every time the Elk 
whistled it was hard for the girl to stay away from him. For many 
days the Elk walked on the other side of the river, and the husband of 
the girl began to get jealous of the animal, for every time the Elk 
whistled the girl would jump up as if to run after it. 
One day as they heard the whistling of the Elk they all agreed 
that it was time to kill it. As they were getting ready to go across the 
river to kill the Elk they heard the whistling on their side of the river. 
There was the Elk going slowly through the timber. The men shot 
and shot and shot at it, but they could not kill it. The girl had to be 
tied up, because she wanted to go to the Elk. Finally one of the men 
took one of his cartridges and put in it some medicine, and said, “Now 
I will see if we can kill you.” This man shot at the Elk, and his bullet 
was effective. While the Elk was whistling through the timber the girl 
was being held down. She had almost gotten away from three or 
four strong men. After the Elk was dead they had to give the girl 
some medicine to keep her from running away. She was put in a 
sweat-lodge many times, until she got over this crazy spell. 
66. HOW THE RABBIT SAVED A WARRIOR.* 
One time the Ojibwa stole many ponies from the Arikara. The 
Arikara followed the Ojibwa, and they overtook the horse thieves, but 
a different band of Ojibwa. There were several wagon-loads of them. 
The Arikara attacked them and fought hard. Several Arikara were 
wounded, including one of their brave men, who was shot through his 
neck by a bullet, which passed clear through his neck. The Arikara 
expected that he would die from loss of blood. As the man seemed 
about to die he saw a Jack-Rabbit, who spoke to him, and said: “You 
are not to die; you are to live.” When the battle was over the man was 
brought to the village of the Arikara. He was taken into the medicine- 
lodge, and there was attended by the Rabbit medicine-man. In less 
than four days the man was up and around. He told the Arikara that 
the Rabbit had spoken to him, and told him that he was not to die from 
his wound. ‘The man became well, and was one of the leading medi- 
cine-men of the Rabbit band. He lived to old age. He died only a 
few years ago from the bursting of a blood-vessel in the old wound. 
*Told by EIk. 
