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girl to come out. A man by the name of Red-Horse came out, and 
Rolling-Log asked Red-Horse if his girl was inside. Red-Horse stood 
still for some time, and said, ‘“‘My friend, the girl that you speak of 
died while you were out hunting.” Rolling-Log stood there, surprised 
to hear that his girl was dead. He went back to his lodge and scolded 
his people because they had not told him that the girl was dead. He 
felt so bad that he went among the hills and never returned to the 
Arikara camp. 
80. CONTEST BETWEEN THE BEAR AND THE BULL SOCIETIES.* 
A long time ago, when the Arikara used to have the medicine 
ceremonies, there was the Bear family on the north and the Buffalo 
family on the south, inside the lodge. There were certain days and 
nights for the Bear people to perform their wonders; then there were 
days and nights for the Buffalo people to perform their wonders. 
In this Buffalo society there were two buffalo scalps, with horns. 
The two Buffalo men who wore these buffalo scalps were painted up 
and medicine was put upon them. These scalps were put upon them. 
They went out of the lodge, and the people played with the Buffalo 
men through the village. On one of these occasions the Buffalo were | 
running after the people in the village, and one young man in the Bear 
family filled up a pipe and gave it to the leader of the Bear family. 
This young man made a request of the leader of the Bear family that 
he would like to challenge the Buffalo to fight. The leader of the Bear 
family did not want to give his consent to do this, for it was not the 
right thing to do. But the man insisted, so the leader of the Bear 
family gave his consent to the young man to fight. The young man was 
told to fill the pipe with tobacco and to take the pipe to the Buffalo 
family ; that in presenting the pipe he must first tell the Buffalo family 
that the pipe given to them was a challenge to fight the Buffalo man. 
The young man took the pipe over and presented it to the leader of 
the Buffalo society, telling him that he had come over there with a 
pipe to challenge the Buffalo to a fight with the Bear family. The 
Buffalo leader objected to this, telling the young man that it was 
something unusual, and that although they had always shown their 
powers to the people, this hidden mystery of having power of the ani- 
mals would have to be given to the two fighters. The young man in- 
sisted until at last the Buffalo leader gave his consent. 
The leading Buffalo man now sent for the Buffalo man, who was 
outside, who had the buffalo scalp on. This man with the buffalo scalp 
*Told by Standing-Bull. 
