Myths and Legends of the Sioux by Marie L. McLaughlin
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packs of dried meat.
The girl made her brother a bow and arrows and with these he killed birds and other small game. The boy grew up a great hunter. They became rich. They built three great tepees, in one of which were stored rows upon rows of parfleche bags of dried meat. One day as the brother went out to hunt, he met a handsome young stranger who greeted him and said to him: "I know you are a good hunter, for I have been watching you; your sister, too, is industrious. Let me have her for a wife. Then you and I will be brothers and hunt together." The girl's brother went home and told her what the young stranger had said. "Brother, I do not care to marry," she answered. "I am now happy with you." "But you will be yet happier married," he answered, "and the young stranger is of no mean family, as one can see by his dress and manners." "Very well, I will do as you wish," she said. So the stranger came into the tepee and was the girl's husband. One day as they were in their tent, a crow flew overhead, calling |
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