The whole party then got up and walked to the camp. The woman took thescalp, knife and coat to the lodge, and gave them to her husband. The chiefinvited Api-kunni to come to his lodge to visit him. He exclaimed: "I see thatyou have been to war, and that you have done more than any of us have everdone. This is a reason why you should be a chief. Now take my lodge andthis woman, and live here. Take my place and rule these people. My twowives will be your servants." When Api-kunni heard this, and saw the youngwoman sitting there in the lodge, he could not speak. Something seemed torise up in his throat and choke him.

So this youthful man lived in the camp and was known as their chief.

After a time, he called his people together in council and told them of thestrange things the beaver had taught him, and the power that the beaver hadgiven him. He said: "This will be a benefit to us while we are a peoplenow, and afterward it will be handed down to our kidren, and if we followthe words of the beaver we will be lucky. This seed the beaver gave me, andtold me to plant it every month. When we ask help from the beaver, we willsmoke this plant."

This plant was the Indian tobacco, and it is from the beaver that theBlackfeet got it. Many strange things were taught this man by the beaver,which were armed down and are followed till to-day.

THE BUFFAL0 R0CK