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Updated: May 9, 2025
They thought of the Earth as their mother and would not put anything into it to defile it. The Head Man made a speech, putting in all the virtues of Howkawanda, and those that he might have had if he had been spared to them longer, while the women cast dust on their hair and rocked to and fro howling.
"'Nay, Brother, said Howkawanda, 'but I also have been counted dead, and it is in my heart that this one shall serve us better living than dead. He nursed the great white bird in his bosom and fed it with the last of their food and a little snow-water melted in his palm.
Howkawanda had never had good use of his shoulder since the fire bit it, and even a buck's quarter weights a man too much in loose snow. So he took a bough of fir, thick-set with little twigs, and tied the kill on that. This he would drag behind him, and it rode lightly over the surface of the drifts.
Howkawanda looked at his maiden running fast with the strength of the portion he had saved for her; looked at the empty camp and the bare hillside; looked once at the high Wall of the Pyweack, and laughed as much as his burns would let him. "'If we two be dead men, Brother, he said, 'it may be we shall have luck on a Dead Man's Journey.
"The hand of Howkawanda came out and took him firmly by the loose skin between the shoulders. "'There was a coyote once who became brother to a man, he said, 'and men, when they enter a strange house in search of shelter and direction, do not first think of killing.
With colored earth he marked it on a buffalo skin; from the Wind Trap to the Buffalo Country. "When he came to Hidden-under-the-Mountain he left his dogs behind, for he said, 'Howkawanda is a dead man to them. In the Buffalo Country he was known as Two-Friended, and that was his name afterward.
When the going was bad, Younger Brother would try to tug a little over his shoulder, so at last Howkawanda made a harness for him to pull straight ahead. Hours when they would lie storm-bound under the cedars, he whittled at the bough and platted the twigs together till it rode easily.
Round and round they beat, and back they dropped from the huge mountain-heads, bewildered. Finally, the leader rose alone higher and higher in that thin atmosphere until the watchers almost lost him, and then, exhausted, shot downward to the ledge where Howkawanda and Younger Brother hugged themselves in the shelter of a wind-driven drift.
He made a flute of four notes which he would play, lying out in the long grass, over and over, until she came out to him. Then they would talk, or the maiden would pull grass and pile it in little heaps while Howkawanda looked at her and the First Father looked at his master, and none of them cared where the Rains were.
And the next day he brought word, 'The tent of the sky is building. This was the tentlike cloud that would stretch from peak to peak of the Tamal-Pyweack at the beginning of the Rainy Season. "Howkawanda rose up in his bed and called the people. 'Go, hunt! go, hunt! he said; 'the deer have come back to Talking Water. Then he lay still and heard them, as many as were able, going out joyfully.
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