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she should make her escape, as it is her day to die. He gives her stick and 
double-ball, armful of deer hair, bark from dogwood tree, and pieces of red stone 
for painting, and explains their use. Woman goes out. She tosses ball up in 
air and is on it. Late in evening she hears man talking about eating her. He 
finds her trail and nearly overtakes her. She throws deer’s hair on ground, and 
when man gets to place he chases deer. He starts after her again and she 
throws down dogwood bark. There are big bushes, and man commences to cut 
them down, removes bark, and straightens them. He continues chase, and 
woman empties bundle of red stones. When man comes to place he gathers 
stones, but is reminded of his chase and starts after wife again. She hears him 
coming and strikes ground with stick, making deep canyon. Woman is now 
near her home. From top of hill she sees man coming after her. It is late in 
evening. She goes right on into grass-lodge of father and goes straight to him. 
They hear man outside asking that she may be turned out. Woman’s father 
begins to tell story. It is about herself. When story completed it is daylight, 
and man falls dead just outside of lodge. 
36. THE TURTLE’S WAR-PARTY. 
Daughter of chief offers herself to any man who can bring her a scalp 
that has red hair. Many men try, but all fail to get scalp. Turtle gets meal from 
mother and goes on war-path to get red-haired scalp. He meets Rat and takes 
him along. They meet Horned-Beetle and afterward Locust, who asks to join 
them. All say it is easy to get such a scalp. They go toward the south, meet 
Coyote, who laughs at them. When he hears they are going on war-path he 
asks to join them, but they refuse him because he is coward. He offers to do 
spying and is allowed to join. He brings news of enemy’s village, and Turtle tells 
men they will attack it. Coyote is scared, but at night when most people asleep, 
they enter village. They go from tipi to tipi looking for man with red hair. They 
see one in large tipi where great men are sitting up to pass time. When everybody 
has gone to sleep men go in and Turtle cuts man’s throat and takes his scalp. 
They go out and Coyote, who has been scared nearly to death, joins them again. 
They start home, but before they are out of village Turtle begins to sing victory 
songs and wakes everybody up. They find chief killed, pursue war-party. Four 
hide themselves in grass and enemies pursue Coyote and kill him. When enemy 
gone home war-party come together again. They go on and find Coyote dead, 
full of arrow wounds. Turtle puts him on his feet and tells him to rise, he has 
slept too soundly. Coyote rises and Turtle says he knew he was coward. On 
reaching home chief’s daughter given scalp and Turtle is given woman. Not long 
afterward chief calls all people to hear Turtle, who says that for their sakes he 
has saved men from having to send war-parties to get scalp and he wants never 
to live as human being again. He goes to prairie and turns into Prairie-Turtle, 
and many people go off and turn into something else. 
37. THE TURTLE’S WAR-PARTY. 
Chief of village where Turtle lives offers his daughter to one who gets red- 
haired scalp. Red-haired people are Wasps. They have White-Geese for spies, | 
and every one, therefore, fails to get such scalp. Turtle tells mother he is going 
