THE CREATION AND EARLY MIGRATIONS. II 
how and where they got it, then ran back to their home and lay down, 
so that when the Buzzards returned to their home they found their 
little dog lying there fast asleep. Coyote stayed with them two days 
longer, and the third day he made up his mind that he must carry out 
his work. Early one morning he started out straight to the place 
where he had seen the Buzzards at work. It was a large cave or hole 
in the ground. ‘he door of the place was a large rock. When he 
came to the place he opened it and out came thousands and thousands 
of buffalo. They came out so fast that before long they had spread 
over the western prairies before the Buzzards knew it. It was quite a 
time before Buzzard discovered what had happened. First he heard a 
strange noise like thunder. He went and looked for the little dog, but 
in vain, for the dog had already gone. He heard Coyote howling in 
the distance. Buzzard went out and found that nearly all the buffalo 
had escaped. 
When Coyote went to his home he told the people to hurry and make 
some bows and arrows, for the buffalo were coming. He told them 
just what had happened and how he had schemed. 
Buzzard was very angry at his wife and scolded her. He told her 
that she ought to know by this time that they were not the only ones 
that had powers, and that henceforth the only way that they could 
make a living was to go around and look for dead meat. In order to 
do this they turned into birds and became real buzzards. ‘They flew 
around and looked for dead things to eat. 
From that time on the people began to make bows and arrows, which 
were given to mankind for their use in killing game. Time passed on 
and the people noticed that their chief, Moon, paid no attention to 
them and seemed to have nothing tosay. Hedid not call them together 
any more, but stayed at his home all the time. The people began to 
think there must be something wrong, and so there was, for Moon 
himself was doing very wrong things. He knew that he was setting 
his people a bad example, and he believed the people had already found 
out something about him. Medicine-Screech-Owl knew all about this, 
for he had more powers than Moon himself. Moon was living with 
his family near the center of the village ; he was the chief, unmarried, 
and lived with his father and mother and one very young sister. Here 
was the beginning of his mistakes. Unknown to his father and mother, 
for a long time he kept going by night to see his own sister, not letting 
her know that he was her own brother. He abused her and treated 
her very meanly sometimes. For along time she did not know who 
he could be, for she had no one to tell her. It finally occurred to her 
that it might be her brother. One night she made up her mind to find 
