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Updated: May 13, 2025
It was in vain. Sketupah's master did but breathe upon the face of the warrior when he fell as though he had struck him a blow, and never breathed more. Then the Evil One commanded them to seize Chenos. "Come, my master," cried Chenos, "for the hands of the Evil One are upon me."
He is tired and hungry, and his quiver has no arrows, but he brings a prisoner in his arms. Lay the deer's flesh on the fire, and bring hither the pounded corn. Taunt him not, for he is valiant, and has fought like a hungry bear." As the wise Chenos spoke these words to the grey-bearded counsellors and warriors the Head Buffalo walked calm and cool into the midst of them.
Then they sang again. "Hush!" said Chenos listening. "I hear the crowing of the Great Turkey-cock. I hear him speaking." They stopped, and Chenos went close to the fire and talked with his master, but nobody saw with whom he talked. "What does the Great Spirit tell his prophet?" asked the head chief. "He says," answered Chenos, "the young woman must not be offered to him.
The chief asked Chenos "Shall he have her? Does the Great Spirit give her to him?" "Yes," replied the priest. "The Great Spirit has willed that he shall have her, and from them shall arise a tribe to be called Piqua." Brothers, I am a Piqua, descended from the man made of ashes. If I have told you a lie, blame not me, for I have but told the story as I heard it. Brothers, I have done.
Then Old Eagle and the warriors fetched her. Head Buffalo would have fought for her, but Chenos commanded him to be still. "My master," he said, "will see she does not suffer." Then they fastened her to the stake. The head warrior had stood still, for he hoped that the priest of the Great Spirit should snatch her away from the Evil One. Now he shouted his war-cry and rushed upon Sketupah.
On the first day of the third moon put no wood on the fire, but let it die. On the morning of the second day the Shawanos must all come to the heap of ashes every man, woman, and child must come, and the aged who cannot walk must be helped to it. Then Chenos and the head chief must bring out the beautiful woman, and place her near the ashes. This is the will of the Great Spirit."
The women wept aloud, and the men sprang up and seized their bows and arrows to go to war with the Walkullas and the strange warriors who had helped to slay their sons, but Chenos bade them sit down again. "There is one yet living," said he. "He will soon be here. The sound of his footsteps is in my ear as he crosses the hollow hills.
"Fathers, the bolt from the strangers' thunder entered my flesh, yet I did not fly. These six scalps I tore from the Walkullas, but this has yellow hair. Have I done well?" The head chief and the counsellors answered he had done very well, but Chenos answered "No.
To-morrow we will offer a sacrifice of deer's flesh to the Great Spirit, and if he will not give her to the raging fire and the torments of the avengers, he will tell us so by the words of his mouth. If he does not speak, it shall be done to her as the Old Eagle and his brothers have said." The head chief said "Chenos has spoken well; wisdom is in his words.
You went into the Walkullas' camp when the tribe were feasting to the Great Spirit, and you disturbed the sacrifice, and mixed human blood with it. Therefore has this evil come upon us, for the Great Spirit is very angry." Then the head chief and the counsellors asked Chenos what must be done to appease the Master of Breath. Chenos answered
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