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leg. She ran and called the people and they came and killed the young 
man. Soon after they heard that he was living with another family 
not far away. ‘The people went to the place where they had buried 
him and saw that he had come out of the grave. Then they went to 
the family with whom it was reported he was living, and they found 
him there alive and looking just the same as before they had killed 
him. 
One time the tribe went on the war-path and fought another tribe. 
All the men went except this man. The chief asked him why he did 
not go with the others to fight the enemy and kill a man instead of a 
little child. Coward, for so the people called him, said that his father 
had not told him to have trouble with people. The chief asked him who 
his father was, but he did not answer. He arose, took up a war club, 
and went out to fight. The enemy shot many arrows at him, but soon 
they saw that the arrows flew off from him, and they knew that he was 
wonderful and could not be killed. They turned to run, and as they ran 
he killed many with his war club. The next day he became sick and 
began to shake all over. Finally he vomited all the arrow heads that 
had pierced his body, then he bathed himself and was well. After that 
the people knew that he had some great power. Many years after he 
told his people that he was going away, and that evening when the 
Moon came up he pointed to it and said: ‘‘There is my father.’’ 
Then he arose from the earth and went up to the Moon. 
29. THE FIRST WAR PARTY.* 
When the people came into the world there were so many that they 
had to be divided into groups, and each group was given a different 
name, although they all belonged to the same tribe. After a time the 
tribes began to fight with each other, and the Caddo fought the Kiowa 
and Comanche. ‘The Caddo gathered one time in council and the chief 
told the errand-man to cry out for all the young men to come to the 
council. The young men came and the chief asked all of those who 
wanted to fight the other tribes to sit in a circle. After the circle was 
formed the chief brought the largest buffalo hide that he had and laid 
it upon the ground in the center of the circle. Then he gave each man 
a stick and they all beat the buffalo hide with the sticks and sang a war 
song. ‘They began singing at sunset and continued until Morning Star 
drove the other stars away. 
In the meantime the chief and his assistants went ahead to choose a 
good place with water near by to make acamp. At dawn all the men 
* Told by Wing. 
