Black Road and a real old man by the name of Bear Sings went to a tipi
and the next morning the crier announced that the camp should camp in a
circle around the council tipi. They drew pictures on the tipi--buffalos,
elks, etc., representing the four quarters, and also the herbs and all that I
had gotten, and a rainbow on the door. It took them all day to paint this
up and I was to put on all my regalia. Everything was ready and in the
evening they told me to come over to this tipi. They asked me if I had
heard any songs connected with my vision. I was asked to sing these
songs. I was not to sing them in the performance, but I was to teach them
my songs to sing for me while I had this horse dance. They spread fresh
sage all over the floor of the sweat house. I had to fast before doing this. As
I was teaching these songs the Thunder-beings occurred and we could
hear thunder all over the camp. We stayed here all night. I did not eat
anything all this time.

Early in the morning we went into the sweat house to purify ourselves.
We sang while in the sweat house. I was very young and my father and
mother got the material I had to use and brought it to me. They brought
me four black horses, representing the four quarters, four sorrels, four
buckskins, four white horses. I rode a bay mare. I had looked for this bay
all year. We got the four prettiest maidens in the village. The flowering
stick was carried by one of the virgins; one of them had the pipe with the
spotted eagle on it; another one had a bow and arrow and a cup of water;
the other girl had the herb from the north. It was announced that every-

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