ABSTRACTS. 
I. THE CREATION AND EARLY MIGRATIONS. 
In beginning darkness rules. Mancomes, and soon thereis village with thousands 
of people. Man disappears; returns with seeds. He says Sun is coming and will 
be given power by Great-Father-Above. Unknown man tells people to select chief. 
In council is Coyote, who tells people to call unknown man Moon, because he is 
first created man on earth. People make Moon chief, and he selects errand-man 
to summon people, and chief tells them they are to move to better world. They 
divide into groups and select leaders, and chief gives each leader drum and tells 
them to sing and beat their drums. Noneof them is to look back, lest they should 
be stopped and stay in darkness. People move westward and come out of ground 
to another world. Coyote tells chief world is too small, and looks back. Half 
go back and others go on west. Chief throws dirt in front of him and forms high 
mountains, People come to mountains and there make their first homes. Moon 
goes to mountain top and sees people have scattered in different directions. When 
together they spoke Caddo; now each group speaks different language. Moon 
says direction to right is north, or cold side ; that to left south, or warm side. Sun 
comes up from east and goes down in west. He goes too fast to do any good, so 
Coyote starts eastward and tells Sun he wants to talk with him. They walk 
together slowly, and when half way to west Coyote tells Sun he is going to defe- 
cate and asks him to wait a while. Coyote goes behind bushes and then runs 
away. Sun waits; then starts on slowly, still waiting for Coyote. Beginning of 
real people was in village called Tall-Timber-on-Top-of-the-Hill. Moon calls people 
together first time in new world, and says child will soon be born of woman and 
will have more power than any oneelse. He will name himself Medicine-Screech- 
Owl, after former chief, and have with him bow and arrows. Child comes and has 
bow and arrows. On his first birthday he names himself Medicine-Screech-Owl. He 
says bow and arrows are for men to kill game. He teaches people to make bows 
aud arrows. In those times animals talked to human beings and they understood 
one another. Afterward some human beings turned into animals. Medicine- 
Screech-Owl visits most ferocious animals in behalf of people. People have little 
to eat, except man and woman known as Buzzard, who have plenty of meat. 
Coyote, in order to find out where they get so much meat, turnsintodog. Buzzards 
find little dog. Man saysitis not realdog. To find out whether it is real dog, 
woman pinches its ear and it howls like dog. Man tells woman to give dog some 
meat to see whether it eats fast. She does so, and Coyote takes his time in eating 
it. So Buzzard believes woman and they keepdog. Coyotestays with them until 
meat gives out and then watchesthem. Buzzard starts out after more meat, leaving 
dog at home. He follows and finds out where they get their meat. Three days 
afterward he goes to cave with rock as door, where he had seen Buzzards at work. 
He opens place and out come thousands of buffalo. Buzzard discovers what has 
happened, but dog has gone. Coyote tells people to make bows and arrows, as 
buffalo are coming. Buzzards now have to look for dead meat; so they become 
real buzzards. As time passes on, people notice that Moon pays no attention to 
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