14 TRADITIONS OF THE CADDO. 
deer, everything shall be yellow all the time. If you kill the white 
deer, everything shall be white all the time. If you kill the spotted 
one, everything shall be spotted and very bad. If you kill the black 
one, everything shall be black as it is now. But if you kill both the 
black and the white deer, then we shall have day and night. During 
the day everything will be white, and we can go about and hunt and 
visit, and during the night we can return to our homes and rest.’’ 
The people accepted the prophet’s words and started out and hunted 
until they killed the black and white deer, and from that time we have 
had day and night. 
3. THE ORIGIN OF ANIMALS. 
The people and animals all lived together and were the same in the 
beginning of the world. After a time they became too numerous and 
there was not food enough for all. A council was held and the chiefs 
determined that some should become animals and live apart from the 
people and be hunted by them for food. Some of the people, who lived 
where the big fire had burned off the grass, were rolled about in the 
black ashes until they became black. Again they were rolled and then 
they took on the form of bears. Long pieces of white stone were put 
upon their feet for claws and in their mouth for teeth. They were 
given ten lives. When killed the first time, the second life was to 
arise from the blood that was spilled upon the ground, and so the third 
life was to arise from the blood that was spilled when the bear was 
killed for the second time, and so on through the other lives up to the 
tenth. During the first life the bear was not to be fierce, but as often 
as he was killed and passed to another life he was to become fiercer and 
fiercer, until, when he came to the tenth life, he would fight, and even 
eat, human beings. 
Some other people who lived where the long grass grew were rolled 
upon the earth, and when they arose they had the form of buffalo, and 
the grass had stuck to them and hung all like a beard under their 
necks. They, too, were given ten lives and then put upon the prairie 
to live, where man could hunt them. ‘The deer were then made in the 
same way, and after them all the other animals were made. 
4. COYOTE REGULATES LIFE AFTER DEATH.* 
The people had many councils from time to time. The errand man 
went all round to call the people to these councils. At one council 
Coyote arose and said: ‘‘ First, we must change our rule about death, 
because all are not being treated alike. Now when some die they come 
* Told by White-Bread. 
