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11 - The First Medicine Lodge · Blackfeet Native American Stories

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Speaker 1: Chapter eleven of Blackfeet Indian Stories. This is a LibriVox recording.
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Speaker 1: by M. C Y. Blackfeet Indian Stories by George B. Grinnell,
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Speaker 1: Chapter eleven, The First med Seine Lodge. The chief god
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Speaker 1: of the Blackfeet is the Sun. He made the world
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Speaker 1: and rules it, and to him the people pray. One
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Speaker 1: of his names Nappy, old Man. But there is another
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Speaker 1: Nappy who is very different from the Sun, and instead
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Speaker 1: of being great, wise, and wonderful, is foolish, mean, and contemptible.
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Speaker 1: We shall hear about him further on. Every year in summer,
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Speaker 1: about the time the beer is ripened, the Blackfeet used
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Speaker 1: to hold a great festival and sacrifice, which you call
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Speaker 1: the ceremony of the Medicine Lodge. This was a time
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Speaker 1: of happy meetings, of feasting, of giving presents. But besides
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Speaker 1: this rejoicing. Those men who wished to have good luck
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Speaker 1: in whatever they might undertake try to prove their pray
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Speaker 1: or sincere by sacrificing their bodies, torturing themselves in ways
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Speaker 1: that caused great suffering in ancient times, as we are
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Speaker 1: told in books of history, things like that used to
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Speaker 1: happen among many peoples all over the world. It was
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Speaker 1: a law that the building of the medicine lodge must
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Speaker 1: always be pledged by a good woman. If a woman
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Speaker 1: had a son or a husband a way at war
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Speaker 1: and feared that he was in danger, or if she
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Speaker 1: had a child that was sick and might die, she
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Speaker 1: might pray for the safety of the one she loved
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Speaker 1: and promised that if he returned or recovered, she would
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Speaker 1: build a medicine lodge. This pledge was made in a
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Speaker 1: loud voice, public in open air, so that all might
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Speaker 1: know the promise had been made. At the time appointed,
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Speaker 1: all the tribe came together and pitched that lodges in
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Speaker 1: a great circle, and within this circle the medicine lodge
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Speaker 1: was built. The ceremony lasted for four days and four nights,
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Speaker 1: during which time the woman who had promised to make
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Speaker 1: the medicine lodge neither ate nor drank, except once in sacrifice.
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Speaker 1: Different stories are told of how the first medicine lodge
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Speaker 1: came to be built. This is one of those stories.
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Speaker 1: In the earliest times, there was a man who had
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Speaker 1: a very beautiful daughter. Many young men wished to marry her,
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Speaker 1: but whenever she was asked, she shook her head and
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Speaker 1: said she did not wish to marry. Why is this,
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Speaker 1: said her father. Some of these young men are rich,
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Speaker 1: handsome and brave. Why should I marry? Replied the girl.
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Speaker 1: My father and mother take care of me. Our lodge
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Speaker 1: is good. The parfages are never empty. There are plenty
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Speaker 1: of tanned robes and soft furs for winter. What troubled me?
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Speaker 1: Then soon after the raven bearers held a dance. They
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Speaker 1: all painted themselves nicely and wore their finest ornaments, and
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Speaker 1: each one tried to dance the best. Afterwards, some of
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Speaker 1: them asked for this girl, but she said no. After that,
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Speaker 1: the bulls, the cap foxes, and others of the all
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Speaker 1: comrades held their dances, and many men who were rich,
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Speaker 1: and some great warriors axed this men for his daughter,
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Speaker 1: But to every one she said no. Then her father
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Speaker 1: was angry, and he said, why is this? All the
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Speaker 1: best men have asked for you and still say no.
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Speaker 1: Then the girl said, father, listened to me that above
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Speaker 1: person the Sun, said to me, do not marry any
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Speaker 1: of these men, for you belong to me. Listen to
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Speaker 1: what I say, and you shall be happy and leave
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Speaker 1: to a great age. And again he said to me,
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Speaker 1: take heed, you must not marry you are mine. Ah
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Speaker 1: replied her father. It must always be as he says,
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Speaker 1: And they spoke no more about it. There was a
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Speaker 1: poor young man. He was very poor. His father, his mother,
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Speaker 1: and all his relations were dead. He had no lodge,
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Speaker 1: no wife to tend his robes or make his moccasins.
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Speaker 1: His clothes were always old and worn. He had no home.
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Speaker 1: To day he stopped in one lodge, then tomorrow he
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Speaker 1: ate and slept in another. These he lived. He had
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Speaker 1: a good face, but on his cheek was a bad
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Speaker 1: scar After they had held those dances, some of the
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Speaker 1: young men met this poor scarface and they laughed at
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Speaker 1: him and said, why do not you ask that girl
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Speaker 1: to marry you? You are so rich and handsome. Scarface
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Speaker 1: did not laugh. He looked at them and said, I
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Speaker 1: will do as you say. I will go and ask her.
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Speaker 1: All the young men thought this was funny. They left
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Speaker 1: a good deal at scarface. As he was walking away.
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Speaker 1: Scarface went down by the river and waited there near
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Speaker 1: the place where the women went to get water. By
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Speaker 1: and by the girl came there. Scarface spoke to her
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Speaker 1: and said, girl, stop, I want to speak with you.
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Speaker 1: I do not wish to do anything secretly, but I
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Speaker 1: speak to you here openly, while the sun looks down
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Speaker 1: and all may see. Speak. Then said the girl. I
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Speaker 1: have seen the day, said Scarface, I have seen how
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Speaker 1: you have you used all those men who were young
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Speaker 1: and rich and brave. To day some of these young
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Speaker 1: men left and said to me, why do not you
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Speaker 1: ask her? I am poor. I have no lodge, no food,
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Speaker 1: no clothes, no robes, I have no relations. All of
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Speaker 1: them have died. Yet now to day I say to you,
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Speaker 1: take pity, be my wife. The girl hid her face
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Speaker 1: in her robe and brushed the ground of the point
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Speaker 1: of amarcasin, back and forth, back and forth, for she
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Speaker 1: was thinking. After a time she spoke and said, it
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Speaker 1: is true. I have refused all those rich young men.
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Speaker 1: Yet now a poor one asks me, and I am glad.
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Speaker 1: I will be your wife, and my people will be glad.
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Speaker 1: You are poor, but that does not matter. My father
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Speaker 1: will give you dogs. My mother will make us a lodge,
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Speaker 1: my relations will give us robes in furs. You will
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Speaker 1: no longer be poor. Then the young man was glad,
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Speaker 1: and he started forward to kiss her, but she put
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Speaker 1: out her hand and held him back and said, wait.
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Speaker 1: The Sun has spoken to me. He said, I may
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Speaker 1: not marry that I belonged to him, that if I
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Speaker 1: listen to him, I shall live to great age. So
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Speaker 1: now I say, go to the Sun. Say to him.
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Speaker 1: She whom you spoke with has listened to your words.
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Speaker 1: She has never done wrong, but now she wants to marry.
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Speaker 1: I want her for my wife. Ask him to take
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Speaker 1: that scar from your face. That will be his sign,
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Speaker 1: and I shall know he is pleased. But if he refuses,
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Speaker 1: or if he cannot find his lodge, then do not
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Speaker 1: return to me. Oh, cried Scarface. At first her words
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Speaker 1: were good. I was glad, but now it is dark.
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Speaker 1: My heart is dead. Where is that far off lodge?
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Speaker 1: Where is the trail that no one yet has traveled?
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Speaker 1: Take courage, Take courage, said the girl softly, and she
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Speaker 1: went on to her lodge. Scarface was very unhappy. He
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Speaker 1: did not know what to do. He sat down, covered
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Speaker 1: his face with his robe, and tried to think. At length,
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Speaker 1: he stood up and went to an old woman who
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Speaker 1: had been kind to him, and said to her, pity me,
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Speaker 1: I am very poor. I am going away on a
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Speaker 1: long journey. Make me some moccasins. Where are you going
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Speaker 1: from from the camp, asked the old woman. I do
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Speaker 1: not know where I am going. He replied, I am
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Speaker 1: in trouble, but I cannot talk about it. This old
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Speaker 1: woman had a kind heart. She made him moccasin seven pairs,
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Speaker 1: and gave him also a sack of food pimikan dried
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Speaker 1: meat and back fat. All alone and with a sad heart,
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Speaker 1: Scarface climbed the bluff that overlooked the valley, and when
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Speaker 1: he had reached the top, turned to look back through
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Speaker 1: the camp. He wondered if he should ever see it again,
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Speaker 1: if he should return to the girl and to the people.
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Speaker 1: Pity me, old son, he prayed, and turning away, he
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Speaker 1: set off to look for the trail to the Sun's lodge.
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Speaker 1: For many days he went on. He crossed great prairies
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Speaker 1: and followed up timbered rivers, and crossed the mountains. Every
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Speaker 1: day his sack of food grew lighter. But as he
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Speaker 1: went along he looked for berries and roots, and sometimes
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Speaker 1: he killed an animal. These things gave him food. One
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Speaker 1: night he came to the home of a wolf. Ha
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Speaker 1: said the wolf, what are you doing so far from
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Speaker 1: your home? I am looking for the place where the
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Speaker 1: Sun lives, replied Scareface. I have been sent to speak
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Speaker 1: with him. I have traveled over much country, said the wolf.
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Speaker 1: I know all the prairies, the valleys and the mountains,
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Speaker 1: but I have never seen the Sun's home. But with
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Speaker 1: a moment, I know a person who is very wise
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Speaker 1: and who may be able to tell the road, ask
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Speaker 1: the bear. Next day, Scarface went on again, stopping now
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Speaker 1: and then to rest and to pick berries. And when
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Speaker 1: night came he was at the bear's lodge. Where is
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Speaker 1: your home, asked the bear. Why are you traveling so
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Speaker 1: far along? Ah, replied the man, I have come to
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Speaker 1: you for help. Pity me because of what the girl
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Speaker 1: said to me. I am looking for the Sun. I
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Speaker 1: wish to ask him for her. I do not know
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Speaker 1: where he lives, said the bear. I have traveled by
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Speaker 1: many rivers, and I know the mountains. Yet I have
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Speaker 1: not seen his lodge. Farther on, there is some one,
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Speaker 1: that striped face, who knows a great deal. Ask him.
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Speaker 1: When the young man got there, the badger was in
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Speaker 1: his hole, but Scarface called to him, Oh, Connie striped face,
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Speaker 1: I wish to speak with you. The badger put his
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Speaker 1: head out of the hole and said, what do you want,
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Speaker 1: my brother. I wish to find the Sun's home, said Scarface.
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Speaker 1: I wish to speak with him. I do not know
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Speaker 1: where he lives, answered the badger, I never travel very far.
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Speaker 1: Over there in the timber is the wolverine. He's always
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Speaker 1: traveling about and ows many things. Perhaps he can tell you.
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Speaker 1: Scarface went over to the forest and looked all about
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Speaker 1: for the wolverine, but could not see him. So he
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Speaker 1: sat down on a log to rest alas alas. He cried, wolverine,
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Speaker 1: take pity on me. My food is gone, my magazines
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Speaker 1: are worn out. I fear I shall die. Some One
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Speaker 1: close to him said, what is it, my brother, And
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Speaker 1: looking around, he saw the wolverine sitting there. She whom
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Speaker 1: I wish to marry, belongs to the Sun, said Scarface.
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Speaker 1: I am trying to find where he lives, so that
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Speaker 1: I may ask him for her. Ah, said the wolverine,
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Speaker 1: I know where he lives. It is nearly night now,
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Speaker 1: but tomorrow I will show you the trail to the
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Speaker 1: big water. He lives on the other side of it.
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Speaker 1: Early in the morning, they set out, and the wolverine
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Speaker 1: showed Scarface the trail, and he followed it until he
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Speaker 1: came to the water's edge. When he looked out over it,
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Speaker 1: his heart almost stopped. Never before had any one seen
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Speaker 1: such a great water. The other side could not be seen,
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Speaker 1: and there was no wind to it. Scarface sat down
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Speaker 1: on the shore. This seemed the end. His food was gone,
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Speaker 1: his moccasins were on out. He had no longer strength,
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Speaker 1: no longer courage. His heart was sick. I cannot crow
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Speaker 1: this great water, he said. I cannot return to the
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Speaker 1: people here by this water. I shall die. Yet, even
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Speaker 1: as he thought this, helpers were near. Two swans came
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Speaker 1: swimming up to the shore and said to him, why
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Speaker 1: have you come here? What are you doing? It is
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Speaker 1: very fine to the place where your people live. I
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Speaker 1: have come here to die, replied Scareface. Far away in
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Speaker 1: my country is a beautiful girl. I want to marry her,
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Speaker 1: but she belongs to the sun. So I set out
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Speaker 1: to find him and ask him for her. I have
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Speaker 1: traveled many days. My food is gone. I cannot go back.
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Speaker 1: I cannot cross this great water. So I must die. No,
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Speaker 1: said the swans. It shall not be so across this
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Speaker 1: water is the home of that above person. Get on
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Speaker 1: our backs and we will take you there. Scarfaced stood up.
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Speaker 1: Now he felt strong and full of courage. He waded
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Speaker 1: out into the water and lay down on the swan's backs,
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Speaker 1: and they swam away. It was a fearful journey, for
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Speaker 1: that water was deep and black, and in it lived
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Speaker 1: strange people and great animals, which might reach up and
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Speaker 1: seize a person and pull him down under the water.
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Speaker 1: Yet the swans carried Scarface safely to the other side.
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Speaker 1: There was seen a broad, hard trail leading back from
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Speaker 1: the water's edge. There, said the swans. You are now
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Speaker 1: close to the Sun's lodge. Follow that trail and soon
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Speaker 1: you will see it. Scarface started to walk along the trail,
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Speaker 1: and after he had gone a little way, he came
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Speaker 1: to some beautiful things lying in the trail. There was
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Speaker 1: a war shirt, a shield, a bowl, and a quiver
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Speaker 1: of arrows. He had never seen such fine weapons. He
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Speaker 1: looked at them, but he did not touch, and at
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Speaker 1: last walked round them and went on a little farther along.
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Speaker 1: He met a young man, a very handsome person. His
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Speaker 1: hair was long, his clothing was made of strange skins,
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Speaker 1: and his moccasins were soled with bright feathers. The young
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Speaker 1: man spoke to him and asked, did you see some
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Speaker 1: weapons lying in the trail? Yes, replied Cafface. I saw them.
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Speaker 1: Did you touch them, said the young man. No, said Scaface.
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Speaker 1: I suppose some one had left them there, and I
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Speaker 1: did not touch them. You do not meddle with the
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Speaker 1: property of others, said the young man. What is your
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Speaker 1: name and where are you going, Scafes told him. Then
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Speaker 1: said the young man, my name is Early Riser, the
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Speaker 1: morning Star. The Sun is my father. Come. I will
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Speaker 1: take you to our lodge. My father's not at home now,
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Speaker 1: but he will return at night. At length, they came
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Speaker 1: to the lodge. It was large and handsome, and on
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Speaker 1: it were painted strange medics and animals. On a tripod.
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Speaker 1: Behind the lodge were the Sun's weapons and his war clothing.
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Speaker 1: Scarface was ashamed to go into the lodge, but Morning
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Speaker 1: Star said, friend, do not be afraid. We are glad
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Speaker 1: you have come. When they went in, a woman was
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Speaker 1: sitting there, the Moon, the Sun's wife and the mother
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Speaker 1: of morning Star. She spoke to Scarface kindly and gave
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Speaker 1: him food to eat, and when he had eaten, she asked,
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Speaker 1: why have you come so far from your people. So
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Speaker 1: Scarface told her about the beautiful girl that he wished
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Speaker 1: to marry, and said she belongs to the Sun. I
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Speaker 1: have come to ask him for her. When it was
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Speaker 1: almost night and time for the sun to come home,
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Speaker 1: the Moon hid Scarface under a pile of rows. As
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Speaker 1: soon as the Sun got to the doorway, he said,
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Speaker 1: a strange person is here. Yes, father, said morning Star,
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Speaker 1: a young man has come to see you. He's a
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Speaker 1: good young man, for he found some of my things
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Speaker 1: in the trail and did not touch them. Scarface came
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Speaker 1: out from under the robes, and the Sun entered the
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Speaker 1: lodge and sat down. He spoke to Scarface and said,
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Speaker 1: I am glad you have come to our lodge. Stay
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Speaker 1: with us as long as you like. Sometimes my son
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Speaker 1: is lonely. Be his friend. The next day, the two
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Speaker 1: young men were talking about going hunting, and the Moon
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Speaker 1: spoke to Scarface and said, go with my son where
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Speaker 1: you like, but do not hunt near that big water.
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Speaker 1: Do not let him go there. That is the home
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Speaker 1: of great birds with long, sharp bills. They kill people.
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Speaker 1: I have had many sons, but these birds have killed
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Speaker 1: them all. Only morning Stars left. Scarface stayed a long
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Speaker 1: time in the Sun's lodge and every day went hunting
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Speaker 1: with morning Star. One day they came near the water
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Speaker 1: and saw the big birds. Come on, said morning Star,
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Speaker 1: let us go and kill those birds. No, no, said Scarface,
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Speaker 1: we must not go there. Those are terrible birds. They
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Speaker 1: will kill us. Morning Star would not listen. He ran
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Speaker 1: toward the water, and Scarface ran after him, for he
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Speaker 1: knew that he must kill the birds and save the
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Speaker 1: boy's life. He ran ahead of morning Star and met
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Speaker 1: the birds which were coming to fight, and killed every
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Speaker 1: one of them with his spear. Not one was left.
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Speaker 1: The young man cut off the heads of the birds
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Speaker 1: and carried them home. And when Morningstar's mother heard what
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Speaker 1: they had done, and they showed her the birds heads,
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Speaker 1: she was glad. She cried over the two young men
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Speaker 1: and called Scarface my son. And when the Sun came
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Speaker 1: home at night, she told him of about it, and
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Speaker 1: he too was glad, my son. He said to Scafface,
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Speaker 1: I will not forget what you have this day done
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Speaker 1: for me. Tell me now what I can do for you.
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Speaker 1: What is your trouble? Alas Alas replied scafface, pity me.
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Speaker 1: I came here to ask you for that girl. I
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Speaker 1: want to marry her, I asked her, and she was glad.
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Speaker 1: But she says that she belongs to you, and that
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Speaker 1: you told her not to marry. What you say is true,
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Speaker 1: replied the sun. I have seen the days and all
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Speaker 1: that she has done. Now I give it to you.
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Speaker 1: She is yours. I am glad that she has been wise,
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Speaker 1: and I know that she has never done wrong. The
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Speaker 1: son takes care of good women. They shall live a
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Speaker 1: long life, and so shall their husbands and children. Now
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Speaker 1: soon you will go home. I wish to tell you something,
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Speaker 1: and you must be wise and listen. I am the
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Speaker 1: only chief everything is. I made the earth, the mountains,
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Speaker 1: the prairies, the rivers, and the forests. I made the
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Speaker 1: people and all the animals. This is why I say
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Speaker 1: that I alone am chief. I can never die. It
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Speaker 1: is true. The winter makes me old and weak, but
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Speaker 1: every summer I grow young again. What one of all
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Speaker 1: the animals is the smartest, the sun went on. It
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Speaker 1: is a raven, for he always finds food. He is
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Speaker 1: never hungry. Which one of all the animals is the
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Speaker 1: most to be reverenced? It is the buffalo of all
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Speaker 1: the animals. I like him best. He's for the people.
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Speaker 1: He's your food and your shelter. What part of his
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Speaker 1: body is sacred? It is a tongue that belongs to me.
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Speaker 1: What else is sacred? Berries? Day two are mine? Come
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Speaker 1: with me now and see the world. The Sun took
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Speaker 1: Scarface to the edge of the sky, and they looked down.
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Speaker 1: And so the world it is flatt and round, and
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Speaker 1: all around the edge it goes straight down, Then said
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Speaker 1: the Sun. If any man is sick or in danger,
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Speaker 1: his wife may promise to build me a lodge. If
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Speaker 1: he recovers. If the woman is good, then I shall
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Speaker 1: be pleased and help the man, But if she is
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Speaker 1: not good, or if she lies, then I shall be angry.
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Speaker 1: You shall build the lodge like the world round with walls.
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Speaker 1: But first you must build a sweat lodge of one
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Speaker 1: hundred sticks. It shall be arched like the sky, and
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Speaker 1: one half of it shall be painted red for me.
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Speaker 1: The other half you shall paint black for the night.
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Speaker 1: He told Scarface all about making the medicine lodge, and
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Speaker 1: when he had finished speaking, he rubbed some medicine on
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Speaker 1: a young man's face, and the scar that had been
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Speaker 1: there disappeared. He gave him two raven feathers, saying these
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Speaker 1: are a sign for the girl that I gave her
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Speaker 1: to you. They must always be worn by the husband
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Speaker 1: of the woman who builds a medicine lodge. Now Scarface
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Speaker 1: was ready to return home. The sunny morning star gave
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Speaker 1: him many good presents. The moon cried and kissed him
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Speaker 1: and was sorry to see him go. Then the sun
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Speaker 1: showed him the short trail. It was a wolf road,
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Speaker 1: the milky way. He followed it and soon reached the ground.
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Speaker 1: It was a very hot day. All the large skins
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Speaker 1: were raised and the people sat in the shade. There
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Speaker 1: was a chief, a very generous man, who all day
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Speaker 1: long was calling out for feasts, and people kept coming
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Speaker 1: to his lodge to eat and smoke with him. Early
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Speaker 1: in the morning, the chief saw sitting on a boat
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Speaker 1: near by a person close wrapped in his robe. All
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Speaker 1: day long, this person sat there and did not move.
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Speaker 1: When it was almost night, the chief said, that person
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Speaker 1: had sat there all day in the strong heat and
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Speaker 1: has not eaten or drunk. Perhaps he is a stranger.
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Speaker 1: Go and ask him to come to my lodge. Some
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Speaker 1: young men ran up to the person and said to him,
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Speaker 1: why have you sat here all day in the great heat.
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Speaker 1: Come to the shade of the lodges. The chief asks
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Speaker 1: you to eat with them. The person rose and threw
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Speaker 1: off his robe, and the young man were surprised. He
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Speaker 1: wore fine clothing. His bow, shield and other weapons were
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Speaker 1: of strange make. But they knew his face. Although this
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Speaker 1: car was gone, and they ran ahead, shouting, this car
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Speaker 1: faced poor young man has come. He is poor no
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Speaker 1: longer this car and his face is gone. All the
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Speaker 1: people hurried out to see him and to ask him questions,
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Speaker 1: where did you get all these fine things? He did
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Speaker 1: not answer. There in the crowd stood that young woman,
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Speaker 1: and taking the two raven feathers from his head, he
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Speaker 1: gave them to her and said, the trail was long,
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Speaker 1: and I nearly died, but by those helpers I found
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Speaker 1: his lodge. He is glad he sends these feathers to you.
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Speaker 1: They are the sign. Great was her gladness. Then they
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Speaker 1: were married and made the first medicine lodge. As the
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Speaker 1: Sun had said, the Sun was glad. He gave them
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Speaker 1: great age. They were never sick. When they were very old.
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Speaker 1: One morning their children called to them awake, rise, and eat.
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Speaker 1: They did not move in the night, together in sleep
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Speaker 1: without pain. Their shadows had departed to the sand hills,
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Speaker 1: and of chapter eleven