THE COYOTE AND THE BUFFALO. 193 
more, and that the children would cease to cry for food, for he had 
found the place where the buffalo were hid, and by whom they were 
taken away; that it was the Raven who had done it. He told what a 
hard time he had had traveling so long a distance to find where the 
buffalo were, and he said that on the next day the men could go out as 
they used to do, instead of having to go out so far, for the buffalo 
could be seen close to their village. He told the chief to have this an- 
nounced to the people at once, so that everybody would know that he 
was to have something to eat the next day. The chief himself went out, 
passing from one lodge to another, singing: 
De-gee-lar-ler-sger-air-ah-sch-gee- 
Noe-ah-schgee-hee-he Wer-le- 
gar-saits-ger-le-wek-eh-hee-he. 
Noe-ah-schgee-hee-he-dahl. 
De-dar-gee-dar-le-wa-wa- 
Se-wa-lar-har-ha- 
Wazar-har-ha, etc. 
[aera 
(2 Ce IS) ee sR ee, 
LESTE LS el ed ee SE 
Le Ff @ | CO @ | oF |  #T @ ¢ 

‘Yhere is no essential variation in the several repetitions, In measures 10-16, inclusive, the 
notes are sometimes transposed, the dotted half notes occurring on F, but in such instances the 
note in the sixteenth measure is always F. After a. pause, the song is taken up four degrees 
higher and repeated literally at the new pitch. ] 
This night has come the Coyote. 
He has said that the herds of buffalo are near. 
He has said that the herds of buffalo are near. 
Wa-ar-har-ha. (Barking of the wolf.) 
Wa-ar-har-ha. (Barking of the wolf.) 
When this announcement was made, everybody in the village woke 
up, saying: “Tf this is the case, we are sure that we are going to have 
meat hereafter.’”’ On the next day the herds of buffalo were seen, and 
the men went to kill them, and they found that the buffalo were not 
wild as they had been. From this time on the people had all the meat 
they wanted, for there was no one to cut off the buffalo from them any 
more. They knew afterward that it was Raven who had played the 
trick on them to starve them out, and that it was the Coyote who had 
recovered the buffalo from the place where they had been put. After 
