THE HAWK AND HIS FOUR DOGS. 129 
18. THE HAWK AND HIS FOUR DOGS.* 
There was once a village, and in this village there was a head 
chief. Near the village there lived a man, his wife, daughter, and son. 
Tihe son had four Dogs; one was white, one black, one reddish color, 
and the other one was copper color. The white Dog was named White- 
Wolf (Wesakakuts) ; the black Dog, Fox (Watayar); the red Dog, 
Panther (Woks) ; the copper-colored Dog, Bear (Wedadadiyakista). 
No one could ever visit the people at this place on account of the dogs, 
though they always kept them tied up. The boy would go hunting, 
killing all kinds of game, such as deer, buffalo, turkey, etc. He told 
his father, mother, and sister that if these dogs ever looked as though 
they were getting uneasy about something that they should untie them, 
for their anxiety would indicate that the boy was in danger. 
One day while going toward the north to hunt, the young man 
met two good-looking women. He noticed that their faces were tattooed 
like the faces of the women of our times. These women wore buffalo 
robes. The young man, being a hunter, killed all sorts of game, 
though all the game he hunted was hated by the women. When these 
women appeared before him they said, “We have come to see you; will 
you not go along with us?” The young man started to go along with 
them. They went toward the north. On their way the women asked 
the young man what he could do to make his escape without being 
killed if he was attacked by the enemy. He answered that he could 
command himself to turn into a small ant. They went on, going fast, 
and the women again asked what he could do to escape from the enemy. 
He said again that he could command himself to turn into a small bird 
and hide in the grass. They continued their journey, going as fast as 
the women could go. After a little while they asked the young man 
if there was anything else that he could do to escape if danger should 
come to him. He told them he had four arrows and a bow, two arrows 
painted black, and two painted red; that he could shoot them. 
They asked him if he could run fast, and he said that he could run 
pretty fast. They asked him what else he could do, and he told them 
that he could not do anything more. They went over a divide, and 
there he saw a great herd of buffalo, and he saw that he was about to 
meet danger. When they were almost up to the buffalo, the women 
became buffalo, and the young man disappeared. The Buffato asked 
the women what the man had said he could do to get out of danger. 
The women told the Buffalo that they must stamp the ground all 
around the place where the young man had disappeared. The Buffalo 
*Told by Towakoni Jim (Towakoni). 
