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Such had been the strong medicine of Konate, to whom, about to die from his wounds, in his shelter by the Sun-mountain Spring beyond the Staked Plain, the taime spirit had talked. Konate was dead; but K'a-ya-nti, his nephew, the other keeper of the stick, was still alive; and he knew. The name Sioux comes down from a longer Chippewa word meaning "adder" or "enemy."
Konate carried the medicine stick in the Sun-dance, for several years, and then handed it on to his nephew K'a-ya-nti, or Falls-over-a-bank, who became Lean Bull the second but the white people called him Poor Buffalo. This apote was a two-pronged stick about four feet long, decorated with wild sage. It was smooth and had no bark, and was brought out only once a year, for the Sun-dance.
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