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up with her; how she traveled fast, and what hard times she had had. 
It was now about daylight, when the chief was still telling the story, 
and everybody in the lodge with the chief heard him. But Man-fond-of- 
Deer-Meat was still calling for his wife when the chief ended his story. 
He ended the story about his daughter’s life, telling her what time she 
arrived at the village; that she was without her blanket; how she ran 
for her life to her father’s grass-lodge and what a crowd of men there 
were. It was daylight when he completed the story. At the same time, 
Man-fond-of-Deer-Meat fell dead, just outside of the lodge, so that the 
village had no further trouble. This is the beginning of times when 
children of chief’s families were misled and had much trouble. The 
village remained here ever after. 
36. THE TURTLE’S WAR-PARTY.* 
There was once a village, and in this village lived the Turtle 
(Gegeezseyar). In the village there was a chief who had a daughter. 
She was a single woman and had refused to marry many men who 
wanted to marry her. But she offered herself to any man who could 
bring to her a scalp that had red hair. There were a good many 
men who went out on the war-path to look for a red-haired scalp, but 
every one failed to find any one of the enemy that had red hair. One 
man after another led out war-parties, but they all returned without 
the scalp. 
Once upon a time the Turtle called on his mother to make some 
corn meal for him to take along, saying that he wanted to go out on 
the war-path by himself and secure that scalp for the chief's daughter 
and get her for a wife. His mother said to him: “You can not kill 
anything. You can not go very far in the way you always travel.” 
But the Turtle kept on coaxing his mother to do this for him. She 
finally ground some corn for him and he at once started off on the war- 
path. He went toward the south and was on the way for several days, 
when he met a person. He asked the person where he was going, 
saying that he himself was going out on the war-path. The person then 
asked to join him, and so the Turtle allowed him to go along. This 
person was the Rat (Nikisiwatsa). On the way the Turtle told the Rat 
what he was going on the war-path for, saying that there was a chief’s 
daughter who wanted to marry some man who could secure for her a 
red-haired scalp. The Rat told the Turtle that that was easy to be done. 

*Told by Saved-another-in-the-Water-from-the-Enemy (Towakoni). 
