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There was a great shout that echoed over the earth, but in the heavens there was muttering and grumbling. The referee declared that the winner would live to a good old age, and Zig-Zag Fire promised to come at his call. He was indeed great medicine," Weyuha concluded. "But you have not told me how Chotanka became a man," I said. "One night a beautiful woman came to him in his sleep.
"Now," said Weyuha, "I have come to a part of my story that few people understand. All the long winter Chotanka slept in his den, and with the early spring there came a great thunder storm. He was aroused by a frightful crash that seemed to shake the hills; and lo! a handsome young man stood at his door.
She enticed him into her white teepee to see what she had there. Then she shut the door of the teepee and Chotanka could not get out. But the woman was kind and petted him so that he loved to stay in the white teepee. Then it was that he became a human born. This is a long story, but I think, Ohiyesa, that you will remember it," said Weyuha, and so I did. II. Manitoshaw's Hunting
Mother was very sick, but she dug some roots and ate them and she was well again. It was thus that Chotanka was first taught the use of certain roots for curing wounds and sickness," Weyuha added. "'One day'" he resumed the grizzly's story "'when I was out hunting with my mother-my father had gone away and never came back we found a buffalo cow with her calf in a ravine.
Each maid as she departed once more took her oath to remain pure until she should meet her husband. I: A Legend of Devil's Lake AFTER the death of Smoky Day, old Weyuha was regarded as the greatest story-teller among the Wahpeton Sioux.
"Yes," he replied, "we think so; and no Indian has ever ventured in that lake to my knowledge. That is why the lake is called Mysterious," he repeated. "I shall now tell you of Chotanka. He was the greatest of medicine men. He declared that he was a grizzly bear before he was born in human form." Weyuha seemed to become very earnest when he reached this point in his story.
"A long time ago," resumed Weyuha, "the red people were many in number, and they inhabited all the land from the coldest place to the region of perpetual summer time. It seemed that they were all of one tongue, and all were friends. "All the animals were considered people in those days. The buffalo, the elk, the antelope, were tribes of considerable importance.
"Tell me, good Weyuha, a legend of your father's country," I said to him one evening, for I knew the country which is now known as North Dakota and Southern Manitoba was their ancient hunting-ground. I was prompted by Uncheedah to make this request, after the old man had eaten in our lodge. At that time the mound was very distinct where Chotanka lies buried.
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