The Indians were in camp and they had a meeting to send scouts out to kill
buffalo. They were on top of a hill and as they looked to the north in the
distance something was appearing. They were going on, but they wanted
to find out what it was and they kept looking and finally it came closer;
then they found out it was a woman. Then one of the men said, "That is a
woman coming." One of them had bad thoughts of her and one of them
said, "This is a sacred woman; throw all bad thoughts aside." She came
up the hill where they were. She was very beautiful, her long hair hanging
down, and she had on a beautiful buckskin coat. She put down what she
was carrying and covered it up with sage. She knew what they had in their
minds. She said, "Probably you do not know me, but if you want to do as
you think, come." So the one said to the other, "That is what I told you,
but you wouldn't listen to me." So the man went and just as he faced her
there was a cloud that came and covered them. The beautiful woman
walked out of the cloud and stood there. Then the cloud blew off and the
man was nothing but a skeleton with worms eating on it. That is what
happened to him for being bad.

She turned to the other one and said, "You shall go home and tell your
nation that I am coming. Therefore in the center of your nation, they shall
build a big tipi and there I will come." So this man left at once and he was
very scared, for his friend was a skeleton. He told the tribe what had
happened and they all got excited and right away they prepared a place for
her to come. They built a tipi right in the center and she was now in it. She

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